Javier Campopiano has been promoted to global creative partner at Grey, a new position, overseeing the agency’s creative work across Europe and Asia. He will report to John Patroulis, worldwide chief creative officer of Grey.
Campopiano will also take on a new role driving the creative output on a major global assignment at WPP.
“Javier is a deeply talented creative and leader,” Patroulis said. “And this role takes great advantage of both. He was already impacting the work in London and on global clients; this will allow him to impact even more–from the work, to the talent, to the business itself.”
Rob Reilly, global chief creative officer of WPP, said “The companies of WPP are stacked with some of the best creative talent in the world. I have long admired Javi’s work and look forward to helping him make an even bigger impact for us.”
Campopiano will work closely with Patroulis and Reilly and lead from an innovative new Borderless Studio in Madrid, a nimble, highly-networked group dedicated to delivering creativity to solve clients’ business challenges in real time.
Campopiano joined Grey in 2019 as chief creative officer, Europe and global clients. Under his leadership, Grey has produced highly acclaimed campaigns for Volvo, Pringles, Carlsberg and Procter & Gamble, among others.
“I am proud of the work we’ve delivered to help solve our clients’ business problems during this crazy pandemic and of the team who delivered it; it has brought us closer than ever and strengthened us as an organization and as a creative community,” Campopiano said. “It is hard to imagine any other network with the density and diversity of creative talent we have right now, and I´m excited to be part of it and work closely with John and Rob to take it to the next level.”
Back when he was with Saatchi & Saatchi, Campopiano gained worldwide fame for the “It’s a Tide Ad” campaign, the gaggle of faux ads, that swept award shows in 2019.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More