Fred & Farid leave Goodby, Silverstein & Partners; Chaldecott moves to JWT; Notorious and 24:7 join forces; new signings at Great Guns, Kaboom, Believe Media, and more...
Creative duo Fred & Farid have left Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco, their agency of two years. The French team moved to the US from BBH in London, where they wrote the Gold Lion-winning Xbox Champagne commercial. The team's next move is uncertain at the time of going to print.
Founding partner of HHCL, Axel Chaldecott, has joined JWT as global creative chief on the agency's $600 million HSBC business. Chaldecott helped found HHCL in 1987, but left the agency in January 2003 when it merged with the Red Cell network. Later that year he founded brand communications consultancy SMLXL. Craig Davis, JWT's chief creative officer worldwide, who hired Chaldecott, commented: "I have been a fan of HHCL, Axel and his work for a long time. He is one of the most innovative and influential thinkers in the industry."
Exec producers Jay Boccia and Neale Ferguson of Santa Monica-based production company 24:7 have joined forces with former Notorious Pictures head of sales Ezra Burke to form new production company Notorious 24:7, also based in the city. The directors roster of the new company is a merge of the two former rosters, and will now represent Brent Bonacorso, Ariane Besson, Paul Fedor, Mathew Lamb, Noah Marshall, Joel Peissig, Shaun Severi and Lourens Van Rensberg. Ben Dawkins, repped by Love in London for UK work, joins as Notorious 24:7's first new signing.
Eden Diebel, formerly repped by HKM for US commerical work, has joined the roster at Great GunsUSA in LA.
Director Brandon Dickerson has signed to Kaboom Productions for commercial representation. Dickerson was previously repped by Kaboom from 2000-02, before joining XRay and Merge@Crossroads.
Believe New York has appointed Cheri Anderson as executive producer. Anderson has most recently worked as a freelancer for clients including Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Heavy Inc and the NFL.
Pierre Gill, better known as a director of photography, has made a move into ad directing and has joined the roster at Zulu Films in Montreal.
Rohan Young, senior creative at Clemenger BBDO Sydney, will move to FHV BBDO in Amsterdam as executive creative director in April 2005. In other Clemenger BBDO news, Ron Mather will join the Melbourne office as chairman. Mather replaces David Blackley who retired last year after 30 years at the agency.
Northern Lights Post in New York has hired editor/visual effects artist Christopher Harrison to its roster. Harrison joins the company from Broadway Video in New York.
Editorial company Greybox in the US has signed editors Ben Layman and Nick Wurz to its roster.
