ACA PRESIDENT GOING BACK TO AGENCY LIFE
By Adnews Staff
The Toronto-based Association of Canadian Advertisers will have to start looking for a new president. Patrick McDougall is leaving after almost three-and-a-half years on the job, to become executive vice-president and managing director of BBDO Canada's Vancouver office. "I enjoy the agency business and I think it's the best place for Patrick McDougall," he commented to Adnews on Friday. McDougall will move to the new job some time in the spring. He will fill the hole left by the recent departure of Gordon Kallio, who moved to Vancouver from the U.S. in 1991 to take charge of BBDO's west coast operation. McDougall came to the ACA from the Ontario Lottery Corporation where he was vice-president of corporate communications. Before going to the OLC he held senior positions at two ad agencies, Vickers & Benson Advertising in Toronto and Vancouver-based Palmer Jarvis Advertising. McDougall also held the post of national marketing manager at McDonald's Restaurants. He was director general of the Canadian Unity Information Office in 1981-82 and vice-president, sales and marketing at Canadian Satellite Communications from 1983 to 1985. The ACA represents companies that do more than 80% of national ad spending in Canada.