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Mullen has appointed Jon Drawbaugh to its L.A. office as SVP, director of integrated production, working on the agency’s flagship Acura business. Drawbaugh joins Mullen from FCB West, where he led digital and social media production for Electronic Arts’ SimCity, a documentary short film for Kikkoman and an integrated brand campaign for Trulia. Prior to FCB West, Drawbaugh was with Goodby Silverstein and Partners in San Francisco for seven years and before that he worked freelance in San Francisco on projects for Microsoft, Hannspree, and Picture People. He started his advertising production career in NYC as a staff producer with MVBMS (now Havas WW).

CP+B LA has promoted creative team Mike Kohlbecker and Alexandra Sann to creative directors. The pair will lead CP+B LA’s efforts for A.1., Grey Poupon and Applebee’s. The duo created last year’s “Spread Good Taste” campaign for Grey Poupon, which was Emmy-nominated and won awards at the One Show and Cannes Lions. Other work includes 2012’s Old Navy back-to-school campaign, which reunited the cast of 90210. Prior to joining CP+B three years ago, Sann spent time at TBWA/Chiat/Day NY, Amalgamated, Ogilvy NY and TBWA/Chiat/Day LA. Kohlbecker originally worked for three years at CP+B Boulder before leaving for a stint at TBWA/Chiat/Day LA, where he and Sann worked together on Visa, Call of Duty and Energizer.

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