UPDATE: McCann Shanghai ECD Vincent Pang sets to depart

Pang (pictured) joined McCann Shanghai office initially as group creative director and was promoted to the ECD role after two years.

Pang is going to join BBDO China, and the agency is currently looking for his replacement.

"We thank Vincent for all his hard work and dedication to McCann in the past six years," said Carol Lam, managing director and chief creative officer of McCann Shanghai. "Now we appreciate that it's time for him to move on to his next challenge, and we wish him all the best in his new role."

A creative talent from Malaysia, Pang has extensive Greater China agency experience, having worked for Saatchi & Saatchi Guangzhou for three years on key accounts like P&G’s Creast Toothpaste and Head & Shoulders, Olay and Xian Janssen Pharmaceutical. While with Saatchi & Saatchi he was promoted to group creative director from the CD level. He spent a further two years working for Y&R in Hong Kong on the Colgate regional team.

Many 4A agencies in China have injected new blood into their creative teams in the past few months.

Bates promoted 20-year, award-winning creative veteran Almon Lam, most recently its Hong Kong executive creative director, to ECD of Greater China.

In March, Ogilvy & Mather loaded up on creative artillery for key client accounts with the hiring of an eclectic group of eight creatives from three continents and seven countries. In adition, Francis Wee became the new executive creative director of O&M Advertising in Shanghai earlier this year.

Elke Christmann has joined Saatchi & Saatchi X as its creative group head for its Procter & Gamble accounts across Greater China and Asia.

In February, DDB relocated its worldwide creative headquarters and chief creative officer Amir Kassaei to Shanghai. Also in February, DDB Guoan Beijing appointed Stephen Mui as executive creative director.

At Publicis China, Sheena Jeng has returned to the agency as China chair and chief creative on 1 February, after moving back to her home country of Taiwan to become co-president and chief creative officer for DDB last March.  

Michael Simons, former regional executive creative director at FCB in Sydney, has joined Wieden + Kennedy Shanghai, in conjunction with the promotion of Achilles Li from creative director: Both work as joint executive creative directors starting from last December.