Creative director Terrence Tan, who has been with the company for just over two years, has taken a similar role with DDB, starting in April.
Tan said he was lured over to DDB Singapore by its president and CEO, David Tang, who is keen to bolster his agency's creative reputation.
M&C Saatchi's deputy CD Farrokh Madon, who declined a promotion to CD, has also tendered his resignation, without a job to go to. Madon, who joined M&C Saatchi shortly after Tan, said he felt he had achieved as much as he could at the agency."I am keen to play a leading creative role in the region," he said. "It could be in an agency that is already creative or an agency that wants to be put on the creative map."
The departures of the two men, who helped garner M&C Saatchi a clutch of awards, including its first golds at the Singapore Creative Circle Awards in 2003 and 2004 for Zuji, an online travel site, and the Singapore Cancer Society, threaten to severely deplete M&C's creative offer in Singapore.
The agency also recently lost senior art director Eddie Wong, who is believed to have taken a job with Leo Burnett.
M&C Saatchi's Singapore managing director, Carolyn Kan, could not be reached at Media's press-time.