Andy Sandoz, partner and UK chief creative officer Deloitte Digital, has left the agency after 8 years, announcing his departure on LinkedIn yesterday (August 3). He wrote:

This time last month, I left Deloitte.

I joined in 2017. But started a long time before and will never really leave.

I’ve always worked with creativity and technology. And a decade earlier, had put creativity and technology together with business design.

I learned when you dream up a transformational future, the next great challenge is to realise it. In consulting language, stand it up.

Joining Deloitte, and over the eight years that followed, I’ve had the opportunity to explore taking ideas upstream in many different clients and industries, experiment with how they flow down through every aspect of an organisation, and discover exactly what it takes to stand up futures we dream up.

I’m so thankful for this. And for the support of the partnership, our ambitious clients, and the global network of diverse, big-hearted, talented people I was lucky enough to team up with.

Extraordinary workplaces stay with us. Experiencing this organisation has changed me. And, as one of a very few early Creatives into it, I like to think I changed it too.

Now, I’m taking it with me. Dream it up, stand it up… what’s next?

Sandoz joined the creative consultancy as creative partner in 2017, when it bought Stockholm create agency, Acne, and oversaw Deloitte’s creative services in the UK including Acne and design consultancy, Market Gravity. He was promoted to global CCO in 2020.

Before joining Deloitte Digital, he co-founded Havas Work Club in 2007, working as its creative partner. It was acquired by Havas in 2014 and Sandoz remained there until December 2015 when he became ECD of Havas London. In 2016, Sandoz served as D&AD President.