Andrew Keller
Partner/Co-Executive Creative Director
Crispin Porter + Bogusky
When you enter the ad industry, something becomes very clear rather quickly : everybody in the world wants to work at Crispin, even if they don’t know it yet. Be it for the wacky Burger King campaigns, Alex Bogusky’s personal guitar lessons, or the clean air you’ll breathe in the [...]
PJ Pereira
Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder
Pereira & O’Dell
PJ Pereira is somewhat of an overachiever. After fulfilling every creative’s career long dream of leaving the day job, starting his own agency and winning a couple of Cannes Grand Prix, he moved on to become the Executive Creative Director at one of the most innovative and fast growing [...]
Rei Inamoto
Global Creative Director
AKQA
Hey advertising creatives! Allow me to let you all in on a little secret about the future of the ad business. Are you ready? Here it goes…
The future is digital.
Wait a second. Didn’t Brett already say those exact words a few interviews back? Maybe so, but it bears repeating when you’re sitting down [...]
Tay Guan Hin
Guan’s ihaveanidea interview has been a long time coming. After overcoming the most fearsome of obstacles a young creative’s career could face (Guan’s parents were both doctors), he went on to become one of the most respected creative leaders in the industry. Not only has his work received every accolade there is and his presence been requested to judge the most prestigious of award shows, but perhaps more tellingly, he has always been a huge supporter of young talent.
Michael Lebowitz
Founder and CEO
Big Spaceship
Hey advertising creatives! Allow me to let you all in on a little secret about the future of the ad business. Are you ready? Here it goes…
The future is digital.
Okay, okay, maybe that isn’t such a revelation. But it wasn’t that long ago when things like super-interactive websites, mobile content and social [...]
Kash Sree
Executive Creative Director
Pereira & O’Dell
Kash Sree is one of those guys who could tell you how to make your ads better and then proceed to kick your ass.
You see, before he made the logical transition to copywriter, Kash spent his time studying and teaching martial arts, while moonlighting as a designer at Ogilvy in [...]
Ty Montague
Co-President, Chief Creative Officer North America
JWT
Normal. That’s probably the best way to describe Ty Montague. He’s not into lecturing or pontificating. Doesn’t claim to know “the” way to save the industry. Got sidetracked by “women and beer” in college, worked odd jobs and did a bunch of other things normal people do. And now he’s [...]
Thirasak Tanapatanakul
Worldwide Chairman
Creative Juice, Bangkok
There’re always grounds for suspicion when an award show jury is announced and Thirasak Tanapatanakul’s name isn’t on the list.
Or on the shortlist, as is the case. During his six years tenure at the helm of Creative Juice Bangkok, he scored major accolades at all the local and international award shows, [...]
Terry O’Reilly
Writer/Director
Pirate
It’s kinda funny that it has taken me all these years to get a legend like Terry O’Reilly to grace ihaveanidea’s Creatives section. On a personal note, Terry is the first advertising creative I ever met, and several months after that, he was the first ad guy to ever see my portfolio (and probably a [...]
Masako Okamura
Creative Director
Dentsu, Tokyo
A good friend of mine always says that “Living in Tokyo is the closest you’ll to get to living on another planet”.
While the accuracy of that statement is debatable, it made me realize that IHAVEANIDEA’s considerable interview vault had yet to include someone from the land of the rising sun.
Masako is the first [...]
