Creatives leave BBDO

SINGAPORE - Following the departure of associate creative director Ivan Hady Wibowo, Proximity/BBDO Singapore has lost another two creatives, Mark Bamfield (pictured) and Haikal Lim.

Bamfiend, the creative director and head of art at BBDO, joined the agency in December last year while Haikal Lim, the creative group head for Proximity had been with the agency for the past five years.

Lim is reported to have overseen interactive work for Fonterra, Citibank and SingTel. Bamfield, who has had stints with TBWA Singapore and Batey Red Cell was ranked seventh in Media’s Top Young Creatives in 2005.

In June, BBDO Singapore had added New Zealand’s Republik Advertising senior copywriter Ravi Eshwar as creative director for ECD Jagdish Ramakrishnan’s creative team.