Lee and Young
FCB Inferno has promoted Owen Lee, formerly co-executive creative director, to a role as joint chief creative officer, Campaign reports. He will share the joint chief creative officer role with Al Young. Lee’s creative partner Gary Robinson will remain in his executive creative director role and Campaign reports that the agency will not seek to find a new executive creative director.
“We’re bigger and more complicated now – and this restructure has been on my mind for a while,” Young explained. “I’ve never been precious about running the train set on my own and I’ve always admired successful creative twin-leadership models. As for us working well together – I’ve known Owen for 15 years and worked closely with him in two different agencies. This is about efficiency and enhancing our already much-improved creative output.”
Lee joined FCB Inferno in his co-executive creative director role three years ago, following a stint as an associate partner at Cello PLC. Prior to that, Lee was a founder and creative chairman at Farm, where he stayed for over 12 years.