Blattner Brunner Names New ECD

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Blattner Brunner’s new ecd, Bill Drake, says his job is to oversee and encourage good work for the $125 million Pittsburgh shop, not try to produce it.

“In the past, they’ve had a player/coach,” Drake said. “I’m a coach coach. I’m not going to be competing with the teams.”

Drake, 45, has filled the post left vacant in November when Rodney Underwood jumped to a chief marketing officer’s job at Logic House, a Pittsburgh-based educational-software company.

He will oversee about 20 creatives and be a member of the shop’s executive management team.

Drake most recently was a vp and group creative director at Mullen in Wenham, Mass.,







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