DDB Vietnam names new ECD

HO CHI MINH CITY - DDB has hired Albert Rosenbrand (pictured) from JWT Jakarta as creative director for its Vietnam office.

Rosenbrand joins an eight-strong creative team and will report to Daniel Gordon Jones, the agency's general manager, who joined in August.

"Albert's brief is to bring creative standards up to where they should be,"  said Gordon Jones. "We need good creative talent to work across both our local and international clients."

He added: "Albert has a good breadth of product and brand experience across markets, and he has hit the ground running in Vietnam."

Prior to his time in Indonesia, Rosenbrand worked in the creative department of Y&R Abu Dhabi. He also had a stint at Red Cell in Italy.