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Can SSF Group's first top-level appointment make Saatchi & Saatchi 'creative, brave and great' again?
Talk to your mates about what ads they've liked over the years, and you can bet that a Paul Silburn spot will be mentioned at some point.
He came up with 'The Lynx Effect' while at Bartle Bogle Hegarty in the 90s and created 'bear' for John West while at Leo Burnett in 2000. He's made memorable spots for Stella Artois and PlayStation, and was the creative force behind TBWA\London's John Smith's campaign starring Peter Kay.
Now, after 18 months spent freelancing, Silburn returns to a permanent position. From January 2008, he will form part of the new management group at Saatchi & Saatchi London, under the stewardship of Robert Senior, the chief executive of SSF Group (comprising Saatchis and Fallon).
Silburn will work alongside Kate Stanners, the executive creative director, who's been at the agency since 2004. They already seem to have developed a good chemistry. Stanners is an effusive and talkative woman who regularly erupts into gleeful cackles, while Silburn is down-to-earth, self-deprecating and …