• by Amy Corr  @MediaPostOTL, June 17, 2014

Wieden+Kennedy hired Yang Yeo as executive creative director of the Shanghai office, beginning August 1. Yeo most recently served as the North Asia executive creative director and China chairman of JWT Shanghai. He will fill one of the office's top creative leadership roles. Michael Simons and Achilles Li currently serve as the office's executive creative directors. Simons will leave the agency July 1, and Li, later in the summer. Yeo's creative leadership garnered international attention when he led the JWT Shanghai team to win a Cannes Gold Lion in 2008. The win was followed by leading the team to win the Cannes Grand Prix in 2011. After working in Singapore's creative industry for 10 years, BBH Asia transferred Yeo to its London head office in 1999. Yeo returned to Asia to launch agencies in Singapore and Hong Kong in 2002 for Fallon.