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Andrew Simon
Chief Creative Officer, Canada
Edelman

TORONTO, CANADA // With an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Andrew is anything but the typical Chief Creative Officer. He began his career in the US at JWT New York and Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles. In 2001 he moved to Toronto to join DDB, eventually rising to the role of Executive Creative Director. In his nine years at the agency, DDB was named Agency of the Year an unprecedented five times and Canada’s most creative agency six times. He joined Edelman in September 2015 as ECD and was recently promoted to CCO. Acknowledged as an industry leader, Andrew has been featured on CBC’s The National, Global TV’s National News, CBC radio’s The Age of Persuasion and Q programs, and has been profiled by both the Globe & Mail and the Toronto Star. He sits on the board of the Advertising & Design Club of Canada and has been a featured speaker at numerous Canadian Marketing Association conferences.