John Mescall, currently executive creative director of McCann Australia, will relocate to New York in the coming months and assume the role of global executive creative director at McCann. In NY he will join global ECDs James Dawson-Hollis and Bill Wright as part of McCann Worldgroup global creative chairman Rob Reilly’s initiative to strengthen the agency’s creative leadership.
Under Mescall’s leadership since October 2011, McCann Australia has quickly become one of Australia’s most dynamic and most awarded agencies. Prior to joining McCann, Mescall was partner and executive creative director of SMART (which was acquired by McCann Worldgroup in 2011), a successful independent agency in Australia.
A writer and creative director, Mescall has won more than 30 Cannes Lions, including five Grand Prix honors in 2013 for Metro Trains' “Dumb Ways to Die” and earlier this week a Grand Prix for Creative Effectiveness for V/Line’s “Guilt Trips.” Both “Dumb Ways to Die” and “Guilt Trips” came out of McCann Melbourne. His other awards include: Black and Yellow Pencils at D&AD, Best of Show at The One Show, and multiple Clio and Webby awards. Mescall’s work has also been featured in TED’s “Ads Worth Spreading” initiative, the only Australian work to ever be selected.
