Ramey Recruits Veteran N.Y. CD

ATLANTA Bob Potesky has left his job as creative director and senior vice president at Young & Rubicam to join The Ramey Agency as executive creative director.

Potesky, 49, began working at the independent Jackson, Miss., shop last week. He is supervising a creative staff of 10. He replaces Gary Gusick, who retired earlier this year.

For the past decade, Potesky had been a creative director at WPP Group’s Y&R in New York, where he worked on campaigns for American Express, AT&T, Burger King, Campbell’s Soup, Kraft and the U.S.