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NEW YORK Gary Goldsmith, North American chief creative officer at Young & Rubicam here, is leaving the agency after 2 1/2 years, Y&R confirmed today.
Goldsmith joined the WPP Group shop in November 2005 as CCO of its New York office and added oversight of North America in June 2006. Then North American CEO Gord McLean hired and promoted him.
But worldwide CEO Hamish McLennan’s November hire of Saatchi & Saatchi CCO Tony Granger as worldwide creative director appeared to make Goldsmith expendable.
Granger has not yet started, given a lengthy notice period in his Saatchi contract, but sources now expect him to arrive in early May.
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