Laurent Simon has resigned as the chief creative officer at VMLY&R. Reports say that he put in his papers before the announcement of the merger.

The agency reportedly said that Simon decided to be "closer to the work and closer to his family" in response to his departure. The creative departments will be overseen in the interim by Nick Rowland, the Executive Creative Director, and Marco Bezerra, the Executive Creative Director for VMLY&R Commerce.
Simon joined the agency in 2019. He started his career with BBH London as a part of the 'Diageo Scholarship' program in 2007. After that, in the same year, he started working as a Creative at AMV BBDO until 2011.
Post that he joined Adam&Eve DDB with a stint close to 5 years. Before joining VMLY&R, he worked as an Executive Creative Head at BBC Creative.
Recently,WPP announced the merger of Wunderman Thompson and VMLY&R. The combined entity will be known as VML and is being touted as the industry’s largest creative company.