JWT Replaces CCO With Steinhauser-Whitten

NEW YORK The creative team of Eric Steinhauser and Nat Whitten will take the reins of J. Walter Thompson’s New York creative department, following the exit of chief creative officer Mike Campbell, the agency confirmed.

Steinhauser, 46, who has worked at the agency since 2000, and Whitten, 43, a freelancer there since 1998, on Wednesday were named executive creative director and deputy executive creative director, respectively, JWT said.

The shift comes three years after the WPP Group shop recruited Campbell from Omnicom Group’s BBDO and two weeks after Rosemarie Ryan, a former top executive at Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners, became president of the New York office.

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