BrandBuzz's Hord Takes Creative Post at Lowe

NEW YORK Jim Hord, a former creative director at Young & Rubicam Brands’ BrandBuzz, has landed at Interpublic Group’s Lowe as creative group head on GMC trucks, Lowe said.

Hord, who started this week, spent a year at BrandBuzz. Before that, he was a creative director at Y&R, working on brands such as Sony and Accenture. At Lowe in New York, he joins a select group of about a dozen group heads.

Hord, 35, is among six senior creative hires that Lowe chief creative officer Gary Goldsmith has made in the past three months, including creative group heads Reid Miller and Ronald Wohlman, creative supervisors Andrew Whitehouse and Justin Gomes and senior art director Raj Kamble.