Sollenberg is the latest in a string of top execs to leave. Danielle Whalen Aldrich, exec VP and president, last spring departed quietly from the shop, which is principally being run now by Ryan Skubic, managing director.
When Sollenberg first arrived at the agency, among the first tasks Chairman Chuck Porter had for him was to rethink CPB’s overall creative structure, starting with the Boulder office. “We have allowed ourselves to become a little more hierarchical than I'd like to be,” Porter said at the time. “I'm not positive that the people doing the work are close enough to the clients, so I want him to think about getting the actual makers of the work closer to the people we're doing the work for.”