JWT Promotes Sharfstein, Williamson

NEW YORK Jay Sharfstein and Con Williamson have been named senior partners, creative directors, new posts effective immediately, according to a J. Walter Thompson representative. Including Sharfstein and Williamson, there are now 12 senior partners, creative directors at the New York shop.

Sharfstein, 37, and Williamson, 35, were previously associate creative directors, working on accounts including Diageo’s Smirnoff. Most recently, they created “Get Out,” a Smirnoff TV spot showing a man looking out his bedroom window and seeing a crowd including Carnivale dancers, an astronaut, jockeys, geisha girls, pro wrestlers, people on stilts and others, all holding signs and yelling at him to “Get out.”