DDB Sydney boosts creative team

DDB Group Sydney has boosted its talent pool with a spike in creative hires.

Steve May and Nils Eberhardt have been appointed group creative heads after 11 years at Saatchi & Saatchi.

Simon O’Neil joins as senior interactive art director having spent five years in Germany specialising  in digital media.

Richard Apps and Andrew Allsop join as senior art director and senior copywriter respectively, both with rich expertise at major agencies with top level clients.

Lazrus Simons is the new senior digital writer having spent the last few years working at Cambodian.

Creative duo Rich Robson and Jon Austin join as art director and copywriter from Saatchi & Saatchi, New Zealand to work across all of DDB Group Sydney’s creative briefs.

DDB Group Sydney’s executive creative director Dylan Harrison said that the inspiration and vitality brought on by new talent were the lifeblood of a creative department.

"It's a simple equation - we have a wealth of creative opportunities across the breadth of diverse clients within our group," he said. "To convert these into great work, we need to continue to attract the best creative talent. The diversity of our creative environment at DDB Sydney reflects our ambition to do the most innovative and exciting work in the country. Already these guys, from a mixture of backgrounds, are demonstrating their unique talents."