Campbell to depart Y&R Asia

SINGAPORE - Young & Rubicam Brands regional creative planning director Rob Campbell (pictured) has resigned his position after three years with the agency.

Campbell is expected to take up a freelance project with Google, although he declined to comment on this.

“I’ve worked with some good clients and people and I’m proud of the projects we have done,” said Campbell.

Y&R Asia president Ambar Brahmachary said: “(Rob) felt this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. He is sad to go but feels he would have regretted it for the rest of his life had he turned it down. Whilst this project will require him to be based temporarily in the US, I know he intends to return to Asia.”

Brahmachary declined to elaborate on whether a restructuring of Y&R’s regional operation is underway. “It is pretty much business as usual,” he said. “Each of the agency CEOs report in to me as does the cross-functional regional management team.”