RIVET PRESIDENT YVONNE FURTH announced she will retire from the agency Aug. 31 after 26 years with Draft/Chicago, Rivet’s parent company.
Lor Gold, also from Draft who formed Rivet with Furth last January, remains as Rivet’s CCO and new position of global managing director.
The 2005 Ad Woman of the Year, and possessor of an armful of awards, Furth previously was Draft/Chicago president/CEO. She joined Draft in ?81 as assistant account exec and ascended through the ranks to become president/COO in ’02.
Furth will spend time with her family and devote time to civic and charitable cause, such as Off the Street Club, of which she’s EVP.
ANGELINA JOLIE and the cast of Universal’s “Wanted” (and Brad and the kids) returns to Chicago Aug. 1 for a month of production.
She stars alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the action film based on a graphic novel. Timur Bekmambetov directs.
THE EVER-EXPANDING FORD/ARIA talent agency gobbled up Arlene Wilson’s three offices: Milwaukee, its headquarters, Atlanta and Chicago where staffers moved to the Ford/Aria office at 1017 W. Washington in the heart of Harpoville.
