Team One's Cordner Goes to JWT Detroit

DETROIT–Tom Cordner, co-chairman and executive creative director of El Segundo, Calif.-based Team One, is joining J. Walter Thompson in Detroit as executive vice president and executive creative director of the office and worldwide creative director on the Ford Motor Co. account. He will partner with Mike O’Malley, the office’s president.

Cordner will assume his new post at the WPP Group unit in January, O’Malley told staff this afternoon. He replaces Bruce Rooke, who left in August to join Gerbig, Snell/Weisheimer in Columbus, Ohio.

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