Andy Clough and Wealthy McGrann are leaving adam&eveDDB and can change Noel Bunting as ECD at Neverland.
The artistic duo had been behind the 2023 Cannes Grand Prix successful “The final picture” for CALM and ITV. Since becoming a member of adam&eveDDB as world artistic administrators in 2021, they’ve additionally labored on John Lewis’ 2022 Christmas marketing campaign “The newbie” and Unilever’s “Nothing fills a gap like a Pot Noodle.”
They don’t seem to be the primary senior departure from adam&eveDDB this week: MD Helen Andrews stop solely 4 months after becoming a member of from Wieden+Kennedy.
McGrann mentioned: “We’ve been following Neverland’s rise and rise over the previous few years and we’re completely buzzing to be becoming a member of right now. They’re extraordinarily artistic, tremendous savvy and beautiful folks as well. We will’t wait to assist form their future.”
Earlier than becoming a member of adam&eveDDB, Clough and McGrann had been at AMV BBDO for 9 years. In addition they labored prolonged spells at each BBH and Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R.
Jon Forsyth, founding father of Neverland, mentioned: “While we’re unhappy to see Noel go, we’re proud to have had her for the time she was with us… I’m additionally off the size, pinch myself enthusiastic about Andy and Wealthy coming in. They’re a stellar, shoot for the celebrities, supernova, world class artistic group, whose work speaks for itself. We will’t watch for them to affix and work with us to take Neverland to the following stage.”
Bunting joined Neverland in 2020, a 12 months after it launched. Now, in Forsyth’s phrases, she is off to fly “with a path of magic fairy mud in direction of her subsequent journey.”
She was beforehand a worldwide artistic director at Ogilvy and has additionally labored at adam&eveDDB, the place she crossed paths with Forsyth (an a&e founding associate) for the primary time. Bunting started her profession within the US, working at JWT, DraftFCB and Gray earlier than transferring to the UK as a artistic director at adam&eveDDB. Her awards embrace a Cannes Grand Prix for the Oreo Day by day Twist marketing campaign.
