Grey Chief Creative Officer John Patroulis Makes First Round of Executive Hires in New York

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Eighteen months after leaving BBH New York to take on the global chief creative officer job at Grey, John Patroulis announced his first round of executive-level hires today.

Executive creative directors Jeff Anderson, Qian Qian, Tristan Kincaid and Hannah Fishman joined the WPP shop in its flagship New York office, with more announcements expected in the coming weeks.

“We’re excited to welcome such experienced and talented creative leaders, all masters of their craft, to the Grey New York office,” Patroulis said in a statement, describing the hires as “part of an ongoing infusion of senior creative talent in line with our commitment to make 75 percent of the agency the creative department.”

He noted that the agency wants to hire “more and more great creative people with a variety of backgrounds” in the interest of offering “a much broader and more diverse set of skills, a deeper creative bench, and the flattest, simplest...

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