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Leith London has appointed McCann-Erickson's Richard Kelly as its planning director.
The agency has been without a planning director since the departure of Sarah Ryder, one of the agency's four partners, in February this year.
Kelly receives equal equity to Leith London's remaining partners, Jeremy Pyne and John Messum.
Kelly, who started this week, had been the acting planning director and senior planner on Nescafe and Mastercard at McCann, where he had worked for two years. He was hired by Pascale Reed, McCann's planning chief, who left the agency in May.
Kelly joined McCann from TBWA/GGT Direct, where he was a senior planner on its NatWest business. Before that he was at RPM3. He started in the industry at KWS in 1991, staying for seven years while the agency merged with FCA, and then into Publicis.
Kelly will have a significant role in the agency's Carling business, but will also work across a number of the agency's other accounts.
His appointment is an important one for Leith London, as it has lost two of its founding partners since its launch in September 2000. Although Ryder joined the ...