D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, St. Louis, has added Jerome Smith as an associate creative director. Smith previously held the same post at Fricks/Firestone Advertising, Atlanta. Also joining D’Arcy is Michael Wolfson, who last worked as senior copywriter at Saatchi & Saatchi, Rochester, N.Y., and holds the same title at his new roost. Additionally, Lynn Farthing has rejoined D’Arcy as a senior art director. Her most recent stint was as a senior art director at St. Louis-headquartered Brado Cuneo Advertising.
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Arnold Communications, Boston, has promoted Jen McGuiggin and Lucy Herzog to associate producers. Both were formerly assistant producers at that company.
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Michelle Proudfoot, formerly a computer artist at Gianettino & Meredith, has been promoted to assistant art director at the Short Hills, N.J.-based agency.
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Mack Kirkpatrick of Freebairn & Co., Atlanta, has been upped to senior VP/broadcast director. Kirkpatrick previously held the title of VP/senior writer.
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David Hessler has joined the San Francisco office of BBDO West, as senior VP/associate creative director. He was most recently president of his own agency, Wrecking Ball, San Francisco. Michael Barti and Sakol Mongkolkasetarin have also joined BBDO West as VPs/associate creative directors. Both have moved over from another San Francisco shop, Publicis & Hal Riney, where Barti was VP/senior copywriter and Mongkolkasetarin was VP/senior art diector.
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The Buntin Group, Nashville, has named Tony Lee as senior VP/creative director. Lee comes to The Buntin Group from BBDO Vancouver, B.C., where he served in the same capacity.
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Ann Pearson, formerly a creative director with The Focus Agency, Dallas, has joined J. Walter Thompson/Chicago as a group creative director.
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Martin Duffy, who was formerly senior art director at McAdams Richman Ong Advertising, Bala Cynwyd, Pa., joins The Brownstein Group (TBG), Philadelphia, in the same capacity; and Adriana Melo, who previously worked as graphic designer at Abstrato da Forma in Rio de Janeiro, joins TBG as art director.
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Rubin Postaer and Associates (RPA), Santa Monica, has promoted many of its staffers. Gary Paticoff has been promoted from VP/senior executive producer to senior VP/ broadcast production. Bob Francis has been promoted from VP/associate creative director to senior VP/creative director/collateral. Joe Baratelli, David Smith, Wendi Knox and Mark Erwin, each of whom previously held the title of VP/associate creative director, have all been named senior VPs/creative directors.
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Cindy Bruckner, creative director at DDB Chicago, has been elected a company VP. Before joining DDB in ’93, Bruckner was an art supervisor at Leo Burnett, Chicago. At DDB, she began as an art director, then became associate creative director, and was promoted to creative director in ’98.
