Remember Chris Ford, whose last stint as an ECD at Ogilvy Sydney lasted just under a year? Well, the creative exec has now landed back in San Francisco to take on the chief creative officer role at Draft San Francisco. Ford, who officially assumes his title at Draft on August 29, will lead the creative departments in both San Fran and the agency’s Seattle office. As mentioned, it’s a homecoming for Ford, who, before heading down under to join O&M, spent 11 years at Goodby and worked his way up from senior copywriter to GCD, working on accounts including Comcast, TiVo and Saturn in the process.
During his career, Ford had other stints in the Bay Area at JWT and Wolfe/Doyle and spent time on the East Coast as an ACD at TBWA\Chiat\Day. In a statement, Draftfcb’s North American ECD Tom O’Keefe says, “Chris is exactly what this office needs right now. Under the watchful eye of leaders like Colin McRae, Tony Vazquez and Julie Scelzo San Francisco has done great work recently – we can’t wait to see how far they’ll go now with Chris at the helm.”
FYI, Todd Tilford, who was announced as Draftfcb Chicago’s CCO a few weeks back, officially started yesterday.