CHD Hires Duo To Run Creative

A decade after the two former classmates teamed up at The Portfolio Center, Cally Bybee and Mary Patton Sage are back together —this time in charge of their own creative department.

The longtime friends last week were named co-creative directors at Cole Henderson Drake, a full- service independent in Atlanta that claims $30 million in billings. They replace Chris Jacobs, who left in January after four years for an as-yet-unspecified senior creative position at Interpublic Group’s The Martin Agency in Richmond, Va.

Sage had been freelancing for the shop and was offered Jacobs’ job first, said chairman John Drake, to whom the duo reports.