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The executive creative director resigns following disagreement over restructure.
Andrew Fraser, the executive creative director at Rapier, has quit the agency after just ten months.
The creative, who is leaving without a job to go to, cited a difference of opinion with Rapier's chief executive, Jonathan Stead, about a restructure of the agency that left his executive creative director role redundant.
Instead of the traditional creative structure of a planning department, an account department and a creative department, Rapier will now be based around three client hubs, each led by three managers; a client partner, a creative lead and a strategy lead.
The creative leads in each hub will be Bryn Attewell, Kevin Bratley and Nigel Webb, who are all Rapier employees. The trio will all now report to John Townshend, the creative partner.
Fraser said: 'I was excited about the future but I don't really agree that the agency is moving in the right direction, so ...