Farrokh Madon joins Y&R Singapore as CCO
Farrokh Madon has been appointed Chief Creative Officer for Y&R Singapore. A renowned and much-awarded creative, Madon’s CV is a veritable ‘who’s who’ of top agencies and blue-chip clients.
He has won over 100 prestigious creative awards, including multiple Cannes Lions, Grand Prix at AdFest, multiple Gold Spikes and a D&AD Silver Nomination. Madon was the brains behind Singapore’s Most Effective Advertising, becoming the only winner of the Grand Prix in the history of the Singapore Effie Awards. He was the driving force behind creative work that has been featured on CNN’s Anderson Cooper show and FOX News, and for 5 consecutive years he was named as one of Singapore’s most influential creative directors by the Institute of Advertising Singapore (IAS).
Having worked as an independent regional creative consultant for over a year, Madon was previously Executive Creative Director at McCann Erickson Singapore, and before that ECD at BBDO Singapore.
Based in Singapore, Madon reports to Sanjay Bhasin, CEO South East Asia Y&R and Regional Chief Creative Officer Marcus Rebeschini.
Commented Sanjay Bhasin, CEO South East Asia Y&R, “We are delighted to bring Farrokh on board as Chief Creative Officer to lead the strong creative team already in place at Y&R Singapore. He joins at an exciting time for the agency where in the digital space we recently welcomed VML Qais to the Y&R family and are about to launch the Spark Plug initiative in the region.”
“Y&R’s strong digital capability and roster of blue chip clients offer exciting opportunities for producing great integrated work. I’m thrilled to join Y&R and work with some of the most respected people in the industry,” said Madon.
Having started his career with Enterprise in Mumbai, Madon has worked for many of the world’s top agencies including Ogilvy & Mather, Saatchi & Saatchi, Batey, M&C Saatchi and a stint with (then) Dentsu, Young & Rubicam
Madon has extensive experience of running regional accounts such as MasterCard, Gillette, Diageo and Visa, as well as having been Worldwide Co-Creative Director for Singapore Airlines. He has worked on clients including HP, Republic of Singapore Navy, Toyota, BMW, Heineken, Jeep, Singapore Changi Airport, HSBC, Discovery Channel and ZUJI.
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Well done.
Well done Y&R. A true creative leader at last.
Well done, Farrokh. Can’t wait to see your new works.
…and the ship starts to turn.
Congrats! And with Toh Han Ming’s resignation, double the goodness.
Congrats Mr. Madon. We need you. After they killed our agency down to 28 people we need you BAD. Great hire Matty.
Y&R has few clients left. Maybe we’ll see some more amazing work from those wonderful folks at The Toy Museum of Singapore. Or land mines in cambodia. Funny how he won loads of awards for clients the agenmcies didn’t have, then the agencies lost loads of real clients. Then fired loads of real employees. Definitely a pattern forming here. As for all those agencies he worked at, that’s highly disputable. If he is so freaking good, why not start his own agency? Put your money where your mouth is, man. You ain’t no Droga.
Everyone else had a secure job or was sane enough to turn them down
Henry can relax now
@kkk Why are Singapore ad folk so bitter?