Nashville Agency Promotes Oliver to Executive CD

Bohan has elevated Kerry Oliver to executive creative director.

Oliver, 50, who arrived at the Nashville, Tenn., agency in 1999, most recently served as a creative director at Bohan.

“Kerry is one of the most effective creative leaders in the Southeast,” said agency president David Bohan. “Our creative sets us apart, and he has played a major part in our growth.”

The agency, formerly Bohan Carden & Cherry, has had a productive year, winning national shoe manufacturer Johnston & Murphy as well as local accounts including the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Nashville Zoo and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.

In addition to overseeing Bo-han’s 11-person creative department, Oliver’s responsibilities have been expanded to include supervising Creative Works, the agency’s design operation.

“We’re growing very quickly,” said Oliver, who added that he will continue to focus on the agency’s mainstay tour-ism sector while at-tempting to piggyback the high-profile Johnston & Murphy...