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Angela Mears
Group Creative Director
Weber Shandwick

SAN FRANCISCO, USA // Angela is the west coast creative lead for Weber Shandwick, responsible for overseeing work across the San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles markets. Though Angela currently hangs her hat in Chicago, she is a true digital nomad who’s traveling more often than not.

Her expertise runs broad and deep, with engagements spanning consumer technology, health care, enterprise software, social impact, employee engagement, corporate thought leadership, and direct-to-consumer social commerce.

Angela is leads creative teams for a number of anchor clients, including Airbnb, VMware, Genentech, Columbia Sportswear, and Kellogg’s. She’s proud to be an active member of the agency’s diversity and inclusion leadership team, and to helm a truly diverse squad of 20+ talented writers, art directors, producers, editors and conceptual creatives.

Angela started her career in entertainment, working as a P.A. on The Simpsons and writing script coverage for feature films at New Line Cinema. In 2015, Angela and her partner Margaux Pepper won the Cannes Young Lions PR competition in North America and were shortlisted in the global competition. Her work outside of work centers on the subject of food, and can be read in a column for Mindful magazine and on The Spinning Plate, her award-winning blog.