Nine years is a long time in adland. David Joubert had been part of Y&R since 2008, when he joined Y&R Brisbane as an art director, arriving in Australia from South Africa, where he had been a senior art director at TBWA\HuntLascaris and Ogilvy Johannesburg (broken up by a three-and-a-half year stint as senior art director & group head at Leo Burnett Singapore.
Joubert has now said farewell to Y&R to join DDB as creative partner.
Joubert became joint executive creative director of Y&R Sydney with Bart Pawlak in July 2014 and group executive creative director of GPY&R, Ideaworks and Studio35 in 2016.
He has won all the awards the whoosh a creative up the ladder, including 8 Cannes Lions (and 13 Finalists), 12 AWARD Awards (plus 13 Finalists), 9 Spikes (11 Finalists), 3 Gold AC&E Awards, 2 D&AD Pencils (and 1 In-Book).
Pawlak will remain at Y&R, with Richard Shaw and Jeremy Hogg joining as assistant creative directors, Shaw from Clemenger BBDO Melbourne and Hogg from Marcel Sydney.
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