Hasta La Creative!

Brian Boord is returning to independent creative agency Periscope as a group creative director after spending the last five years at DDB Chicago. At DDB, he worked on brands such as Skittles, including its Super Bowl commercials, State Farm, McDonald’s, Capital One and LifeLock. Periscope has also hired creative director Rhea Hanges, who joins from BBDO Atlanta and has led creative on brands such as Toys R Us, Nabisco and Keurig. Also new to the agency’s creative team are creative director Jen Stocksmith, who joins from New York’s Vayner Media, creative David Hahn, who comes from Barkley in Kansas City, and director of Periscope Creative Studio Erik Jacobs, who has previously worked at Duffy Design, Fallon and Olson.

Joo Coutinho is joining Y&R in New York this month as executive creative director for Y&R North America, reporting to Y&R North America Chief Creative Officer Leslie Sims. Coutinho moves from Grey New York, where he was group creative director, working for clients including Volvo, Canon, Clairol, Bosch, and Procter & Gamble. He was behind the campaign “Guns with History” developed for States United to Prevent Gun Violence, a national non-profit organization working to decrease gun death and injury. He was also responsible for the Volvo U.S.”‘Highway Robbery” campaign, which turned passing cars on a southern California highway into generators. A native of Portugal, he worked in Portugal, Spain and Brazil before the U.S., and was a creative lead at Ogilvy Brazil.

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