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A year after feeling he was too green for the job, but subsequently emboldened by his role in a major account win, Duncan Stone took on the creative director post at Austin Kelley Advertising.
Stone, 41, has been a copywriter at the Atlanta Interpublic Group shop for five years and was asked last spring to replace Mark Robinson as cd. He demurred, and the agency in August hired copywriter Al Jackson as cd. Jackson left after nine months.
“Duncan felt he wasn’t ready, but [later] when we pitched and won AmSouth [bank], he wrestled it to the ground,” said AKA svp, executive creative director Jim Spruell.
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