Davis to co-chair + CCO of Publicis Mojo

EXCLUSIVE:Craig Davis has joined Publicis Mojo as co-chairman and chief creativeofficer across Australia and New Zealand. He steps into the creativerole vacated by Darren Spiller who moved stateside this month as chiefcreative officer of Fallon US.

Davis, one of the highestprofile Australian creatives working on the world stage, resigned asglobal creative director of JWT six months ago. After a decade workingoverseas he wanted to return to Australia for lifestyle reasons and adesire to raise his young family in his hometown.

He will share the chairman role with Graeme Wills, regional chairman ofPublicis Mojo and will be based in the Sydney office.

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.