Silver to Follow Graf at BBDO

NEW YORK Omnicom Group’s BBDO has hired Eric Silver as an executive creative director; he will join the shop’s office here on Dec. 15, the agency has confirmed.

Silver fills a BBDO slot left open when Gerry Graf departed last month to join Omnicom’s TBWA\Chiat\Day as its top creative executive in New York. Silver, 36, will likely take creative supervision of the estimated $80 million FedEx business, which had been in Graf’s group, sources said.

Silver, who made his creative reputation over the last six years at independent New York agency Cliff Freeman and Partners, left that shop in June to join Publicis Groupe’s Saatchi & Saatchi in New York as executive vp, group creative director, where he has reported to that office’s chief creative officer, Tod Seisser.

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