It’s almost spring - depending on where you live. Maybe everyone has caught the fever? Another departure - Rob Strasberg the VP CD at Crispin is heading to Doner to head up Mazda. Before you lose it that Rob got off the Crispin highway (he’s been there since 1999), he’s going to be the new CCO over there. Big title. Big keys to the car. That’s Rob on the left there standing with Andrew Keller, Alex Bogusky, and Rob Reilly back in 2005.
It’s interesting to see two recent high level departures from CP+B. They just won the Microsoft account. They just bumped some people up Andrew Keller and Rob Reilly were both named Partner/Co-Executive Creative Director. Steve Erich was named Partner/Group Account Director and Eric Lear was named Partner/COO at the firm. Did Mark Taylor, who went to GSD&M, and Strasberg realize their day wasn’t going to come and so bailed? What?
All these bodies falling from Crispin and Goodby (Feh Tarty, Pat McKay, and Mark Wenneker). As an astute friend said to us - who’s going to do all their work at their respective agencies? Hey, you junior CD? Time to step up the game. Prove you got the mettle.
March 5, 2008 at 3:46 pm
‘Mettle’, not metal.
March 5, 2008 at 3:56 pm
I guess people are jumping ship before the rest of the ad industry finally wakes up and realizes that Crispin is that “ugly, desperate hook up they picked up at a bar last night.”
March 5, 2008 at 4:04 pm
That was a joke - metal versus mettle. Guess it’s not that funny.
March 5, 2008 at 5:37 pm
regular turnover, I suppose. that’s the industry.
shit, he must be getting one hell of a paycheck now.
March 5, 2008 at 7:29 pm
addendum: anyone else notice that rob strassberg doesn’t know how to spell his own clients name? Volkswagon? please. it’s Volkswagen. that’s pretty weak for a creative director.
March 6, 2008 at 1:00 am
i dropped this nugget in your comments like two weeks ago. maybe you should read them?
March 6, 2008 at 2:53 am
Jeez DDJG — what a nasty comment.
I think it’s just time for some of these guys to cash in.
March 6, 2008 at 4:44 am
yeah, this is OLD news. too busy on the tilley stuff?
March 7, 2008 at 4:54 am
oh oh, take the money and run!
March 14, 2008 at 4:52 pm
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