Northam promoted to creative director on Defence Force Recruiting at GPY&R Melbourne

Chris Northam has been promoted to creative director at George Patterson Melbourne, overseeing the Defence Force Recruiting business.

Northam has worked at GPY&R Melbourne for four years, working across the entire client base as a senior art director. Prior to that he has worked in Sydney and Melbourne for GPY&R and BMF.

Recently Northam co-created the Navy ‘Human Fleet’ campaign which picked up heavy local and international metal, as well as various award winning work on Cadbury and Schweppes.

Says George Patterson Y&R ECD, Ben Coulson: “Chris is a big part of the Melbourne agency. He is an advertising A-grader and has great natural leadership, this is a well deserved promotion. Personally, I look forward to him doing more of the really hard meetings around here.”