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Jim Thornton hires the former HHCL creative directors to work across Leo Burnett's client list.
Jonathan Burley and Jim Bolton, the former HHCL creative directors, have joined Leo Burnett.
Reporting to the executive creative director, Jim Thornton, the pair will oversee the agency's creative output while producing work for all of its major accounts.
Burley resigned from HHCL in November last year. Since then, he has been linked with various agencies, including JWT.
His resignation from HHCL came just a month after the chief executive, Nick Howarth, left to take up the post of group chief executive at Clemmow Hornby Inge.
Burley denied that this had any bearing on his decision to leave. He said: 'I decided that I didn't want to run a business any more. I just wanted to get back to being a creative director and putting out some really good work.'
He added: 'After years in a small agency, it's exciting to see ...