Graham Fink
Graham Fink, Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy & Mather China, has one of the most interesting careers in the business and he’s just getting started in Asia. Recruited to Ogilvy in early 2011, Graham has tackled the challenge of a new market with gusto, seeking and celebrating young local talent, adding a blend of expat talent into the mix and learning what works best for Chinese clients and consumers. Will his creative mission in China be successful?
Renata Florio
Renata Florio is breaking multiple molds: the first being a departure from the Brazilian advertising industry for America and the second, joining U.S. Hispanic shop Wing as a its first female CCO. Renata is a successful Brazilian creative superstar, having won not one, but eight Gold Lions, as well as One Show awards over her 20-year career that has spanned top shops such as AlmapBBDO, F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, DM9DDB, Publicis and Peralta StrawberryFrog.
Colin Jeffery
Shuffling Party Rock hamsters? Yeah, Colin Jeffery is behind that. But both Colin and David&Goliath, where he is Executive Creative Director and Managing Partner, are much bigger than just the hamsters. Bigger than the cultural movement they instigated, and the turbo-jet speed at which they’ve propelled Kia into the forefront of the car market. Colin Jeffery is a worldly creative leader.
Paul Venables
Never underestimate the potential of the up-and-comer answering the telephones at a small agency in New York City. Who knows, they may go on to become a talented copywriter or to co-lead the creative department at Goodby during its heyday. They might even have the entrepreneurial drive to launch their own agency in San Francisco, one that is motivated by the intention to do right by its staff and its clients. Clients like Microsoft and Audi, Intel and Barclays, HBO and PG&E.
Rob Schwartz
Speaking with Rob Schwartz is like overdosing on passion for the advertising industry. His love, not only for the business but for TBWA\Chiat\Day in particular, is infectious and he is a living example of pursuing one’s dream with wild abandon. Well, perhaps not wild abandon. Perhaps more like laser focus and undying persistence. Either way, Rob has made a huge dent in the TBWA\Chiat\Day network, both in creative product and in bottom line, and he isn’t done yet.
Louis Marino
“I thought I told you that we won’t stop, I thought I told you that we won’t stop.”
This popular line from four out of five Puff Daddy songs is not just a catchy refrain, it could also serve as a personal motto to Louis Marino, ECD at New York’s experiential advertising shop MKTG (and former creative director in Puffy’s Bad Boy empire)
Jason Peterson
Chief Creative Officer
Euro RSCG Chicago
Not too many of us in the ad world are brought into an agency specifically to make a mark, to get your fingerprints all over the place, to make it yours and set it on an upwards trajectory. But that’s exactly what happened when the Chicago office of Euro [...]
Aaron Starkman
Executive Creative Director
CPB Canada
Here at ihaveanidea, it’s one thing to interview all sorts of creative superstars, but it’s another thing to interview a creative superstar who you knew before he was a superstar.
Such is the case with Aaron Starkman, Executive Creative Director of the Canadian office of the legendary ad agency Crispin [...]
Sergio Alcocer
President & Chief Creative Officer
LatinWorks
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Prior to my recent visit to Austin, TX based LatinWorks, I had never really experienced in depth the American phenomenon known as a “multicultural agency.” As a native Costa Rican, I’m sure I could speak the lingo, but I wanted to know more about what made them tick. Fortunately I [...]
