CHI&Partners CCO Jonathan Burley Is Leaving the Agency
Posted in: UncategorizedCHI&Partners CCO Jonathan Burley is leaving the agency after six years, Campaign reports.
We received word earlier this week that Burley would be departing, but sister agency The&Partnership’s PR team denied it. So it would appear that this news surprised WPP as well.
At any rate, Burley joined CHI&Partners in May of 2010, following over five years with Leo Burnett as a group executive creative director, working with brands including McDonald’s and Kellogg. Before that he spent seven years as a creative director with HHCL + Partners.
“It’s always a difficult decision to leave an agency you’ve been a part of for six years, and I wish I could say more at this time about where I’m going next, but I’m sure CHI will continue to go from strength to strength,” Burley told Campaign.
The&Partnership founder Johnny Hornby wrote to staff in an email:
“Jonathan and I agreed some time ago that having enjoyed a wonderful six years together – where Jon has built a great department and produced some really outstanding work for our clients – that it was a good time for him and for us to take on a fresh challenge.
Not surprisingly a little while later Jonathan now has a lots of offers from elsewhere, both in London and abroad, and hasn’t yet chosen his next move.”
It’s unclear where Burley is going, but according to our tipsters his departure was not a mutual decision.
