SANDY PEACOCK RETURNS TO SYDNEY

Long time Clemenger Harvie Edge, Brisbane creative director Sandy Peacock is returning to his hometown Sydney as creative director of Curtis Jones Brown in Sydney, starting in mid March. CJB are the successful healthcare agency that has been going for 20 years and is now part of the Clemenger network. CJB partner and creative director Phil Brown is retiring but will stay on at the agency until the end of the year as a writer.

Peacock has been at Clemenger Harvie Edge Brisbane (previously Clemenger BBDO Brisbane) as CD for nearly 10 years, since transferring from Clems Sydney. Says Peacock: “We’ve been a fully integrated agency throughout that time and we’ve doubled the size of the agency. It’s on a roll and it has a terrific client mix that includes Telstra Country Wide, Tourism Queensland, Bank of Queensland and Flight Centre. I’ll miss the agency and Brisbane a lot. Peacock’s role will be filled by Grant Johnston, who has been with the agency for two years. Before that he was at de Pasquale. Says Peacock: “He’s creatively hyperactive, he has a lot of energy and a really good gut feeling for ads that work.”