Noble to Join Element 79

John Noble Jr.’s first big break in advertising came at birth, when the words “It’s a boy” fell on the ears of rising Doyle Dane Bernbach creative John Noble Sr.

Noble Jr., who joins Omnicom Group’s Element 79 Partners in August as svp, director of broadcast production, gained early experience as a production assistant on his father’s shoots. (The elder Noble, who died in 1998, eventually became DDB’s worldwide creative director.) But it was the résumé Noble Jr.