It didn’t take long for newly installed Draftfcb Orange County chief creative officer Eric Springer to get down to business as the exec’s kicking 2013 off by recruiting a right-hand man in Michael Bryce, who joins the agency as EVP/executive creative director. Bryce most recently spent the last year as a creative director at 72andSunny, working on Activision and the notable Samsung GS II campaign.
The new hire, though, spent the majority of his ad career at Deutsch LA (nearly 14 years), where he managed the U.S. Playstation account (he helped lead creative on the nifty “Michael” campaign for the brand) and also led work for clients such as CiCi’s Pizza, DirecTV and TGIFridays. Now at Draftfcb OC, Bryce will help his new boss Eric Springer steward the Taco Bell business (of course) and lead the soon-to-be-opened satellite office in LA (we’ve been told that the agency is in the process of looking for the right space).