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Ogilvy & Mather has recruited the seasoned senior creative Dennis Lewis in the first of what the agency says will be a pair of heavyweight creative signings.
The hiring will help allay speculation over the future of Steve Dunn, O&M's executive creative director, who was not among the senior executives promoted to a group role after the ousting of Paul Simons as the group chairman in March. Dunn asserted: 'I've no plans to go.'
Lewis, 54, who built his reputation at Bartle Bogle Hegarty on the back of acclaimed work for Audi, One2One, Levi's and Phileas Fogg, will be a partial replacement for Paul Belford and Nigel Roberts, who quit earlier this year to join Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO. Lewis, who will take the title of creative director, will have charge of an as yet undisclosed major piece of business.
Dunn said he expected to make a second major hiring soon, allowing him to step back from the day-to-day running of the creative department.
Lewis' brief is to help drive the quality of O&M's creative output and pass on his experience to some of the ...