Davis to co-chairman + CCO of Publicis Mojo
EXCLUSIVE: Craig Davis has joined Publicis Mojo as co-chairman and chief creative officer across Australia and New Zealand. He steps into the creative role vacated by Darren Spiller who moved stateside this month as chief creative officer of Fallon US.
Davis – pictured left with Publicis Mojo co-chairman Graham Wills (far left), photographed by CB in Cannes today – one of the highest profile Australian creatives working on the world stage, resigned as global creative director of JWT six months ago. After a decade working overseas he wanted to return to Australia for lifestyle reasons and a desire to raise his young family in his hometown.
He will share the chairman role with Graeme Wills, regional chairman of Publicis Mojo and will be based in the Sydney office. The pair are photographed by CB in Cannes – Wills left, Davis right – during our exclusive interview.
The agency will also be announcing its new Melbourne creative director soon, which Campaign Brief understands is currently a partner at a London agency.
After graduating from AWARD School in 1988 Davis started his ownagency, Davis & Chapman, later morphing into Doorley Abram Davis& Chapman. His first overseas gig was as ECD of Saatchi &Saatchi Singapore in 1999 – within a year he was promoted to regionalECD Asia/Africa and moved to Hong Kong. He then joined JWT, moving toLondon as chief creative officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa,stepping up to the global role in 2005.
Davis is credited with improving the creative reputation of themultinational agency and attracting high profile talent to the networkas well as establishing the worldwide creative council. In 2008, JWTwon 39 Cannes Lions.
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Hold my girlfriend while I kiss your skateboard…
Wow, great news for Mojo. A real game changer for that agency.
Sounds good to me
Owned his own shop
Worked in different parts of the world
Solid haul at Cannes
Nice Move Publicis
Great to hear Craig is back. I used to work at JWT and he was an inspiring CCO. He really instilled a great new creative culture. All the best in the new role.
I don’t get it. Craig is a nice guy. So how come he’s done so well?
Why would you desire to raise your kids in Dubbo? Sure the Western Plains Zoo is pretty cool but it ain’t London.
Wonder why we never take on people from different industries.
MojoMagic – nuff said!
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Same reason I don’t get a fucking baker to fix my car.
Idiot.
Mojo’s big coup. DDB’s missed opportunity.
Oh now i get it. The mojo’s gone.