LOS ANGELES, USA // Petter Westlund is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of B-Reel, a company started in 1999 to explore the intersection of filmmaking and interactive media.
Under his direction B-Reel has grown to become a global creative agency, creating industry-shaping work with an eye towards using technology to craft beautiful and innovative experiences for brands.
Petter has been central to building out B-Reel’s… Read More
NEW YORK, USA // A designer, entrepreneur, inventor and creative director, Joe Doucet is one of the most sought-after creative talents working in America today. After graduating from the Art Center College of Design, Doucet quickly began exporting his vision into product, furniture, environment, and technology to nd solutions for daily and societal challenges through design. His work deftly hybridizes function and visual appeal while… Read More
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BENGALURU, INDIA // I joined ITC in 2007 as Head of Consumer Insights and over the last 11 years I have been lucky to be a part of the organization which grew ten folds to 1.5 Billion Dollar Business. I was instrumental into our forays into multiple food and beverage categories like Snacks, Juices, Chocolates, Noodles and Coffee.
Understanding consumers and their needs has always excited me and the… Read More
TORONTO, CANADA // Kyle Norrington, Vice President of Global Brands at Anheuser-Busch InBev, oversees AB InBev’s three global brands – Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois – which are three of AB InBev’s fastest growing beer brands in 50+ markets around the world.
Kyle began his career in beer, first working at the ground level in bars and retail locations as a Sales Representative with Labatt Breweries of Canada in 2000. Nearly 20… Read More
NEW YORK, USA // As Managing Partner of One Thousand Birds, Laura leads the creative partnerships and develops projects for the sound design studios. She oversees audio post production for commercials, film, VR/AR, as well as full production for sound art + experiential.
Inspired by the development of artists and their impact, in her career Laura has represented over 60 commercial and fine artists internationally. She and co-founder… Read More
HAMBURG, GERMANY // With a career spanning over 20 years in the advertising industry, Diether currently works as the Chief Creative Officer at Philipp und Keuntje (PUK), where he started as an Art Director in 1999. As a founding member of this agency, he has played a key role shaping its development working for brands such as Audi, Sennheiser, Rimowa and Lamborghini.
As a triple digit award winning creative, Diether always strives to… Read More
NEW YORK, USA // Karen Strauss leads strategy and creativity at Ketchum, one of the world’s largest communications firms with 2,400 colleagues across 70+ countries. She is an evangelist for courage and creativity in communications. A torchbearer for creative culture, she inspires teams to think beyond traditional public relations and directs some of Ketchum’s most powerful campaigns. Credited with networking Ketchum’s global creative… Read More
HONG KONG // Richard Tsang founded Strategic Public Relations Group (“SPRG”) in 1995. Today, SPRG is among the largest PR networks in Asia and the largest PR consultancy in Hong Kong.
Richard is heavily involved in the PR industry, as well as education and community services, holding over 50 board, committee and advisory positions in various business, religious, education and non-governmental organisations. Currently the Global… Read More
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND // Dadi Einarsson’s career began in 1992 with Icelandic visual effects and animation house OZ as part of a small team pioneering the Icelandic computer graphics and visual effects industry. Five years later he moved to London where he worked at The Mill and subsequently Framestore, winning an Emmy and a VES Award along the way.
In 2002 Dadi went to New York as head of animation at newly opened Mill NY. There he led… Read More
GLASGOW, UK // Powered by a love for creativity, Paula works at the core of Axis Studios, planning for new projects as well as overseeing a number of the studio’s live projects. Paula graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art with a degree in Fine Art, after which she spent four years as an Advertising Agency Producer. She joined the Axis team in 2005 as a Producer and has since worn many hats within the Production team from… Read More
LONDON, UK // Jay is Managing Director of London’s award winning music and sound production company Soundtree Music. A Creative Producer and Music Supervisor in commercials, film and TV, her experience in the music industry stretches over 20 years and encompasses music retail, global physical/online distribution to music supervision and production.
As a classically trained pianist, Jay brings a creative angle to all Soundtree’s works…. Read More
SANTA MONICA, USA // Mary Catherine has worked in advertising as a producer since 2007, for esteemed original music and sound studio, Endless Noise in Santa Monica, California. In her 11-years she has worked on over 400 television commercials, as well as documentary films, web series, podcasts, television shows, platinum-selling records and viral videos amassing over 350 Million views (including Pentatonix, Superfruit).
Endless… Read More
LONDON, UK // Rich Orrick began his career by editing music videos in Soho, London in 1996, establishing himself quickly, resulting in his first of four D&AD Yellow Pencils in 2000.
In 2006, he founded Work Editorial in London, along with partners, Bill Smedley, Neil Smith, and Jane Dilworth. Collectively they wanted to create a boutique offline edit house grounded in creativity. This has continued into offices in both Los Angeles and… Read More
London, UK // Mary found her passion for storytelling whilst studying film in college, her love of filmmaking led her to London where she studied and earned a first class honours degree in editing and post production at Ravensbourne University. Shortly after graduating she found herself working at the award-winning Blue Zoo Animation where she trained under some of the best animation editors in the industry. Now one of the studios leading… Read More
LOS ANGELES, USA // Laura is a highly experienced Managing Director and Executive Producer with a comprehensive background in live action, visual effects and post production. She has supervised hundreds of commercials, winning multiple awards and accolades.
Born in London and raised in Germany, Laura came back to America for college and graduated from Syracuse University double majoring in Broadcast Journalism and German. After moving… Read More
NEW YORK, USA // Aubrey Smyth is an award winning Commercial and Film Director with 8 years of experience in both scripted and non-scripted content.
After graduating with High Honors in Film & Video and being awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award in Media Arts/Film by the faculty of the acclaimed Pratt Institute, Aubrey set her mind on directing. At the age of 21 she founded her full service production company Gingersnap NYC whose… Read More
DUSSELDORF, GERMANY // Since November 2013 Fabian has been responsible as CCO for the creative output of the GRAY group. A task that he addresses not only with great seriousness but above all with a good deal of passion.
A passion that is primarily characterized by the fact that he likes to go the extra mile, look outside the box and bringing the appropriate people to the table for the respective upcoming project. These are the basic… Read More
PARIS, FRANCE // A New Zealander by birth, Jamie moved to France in 2007 with a return ticket that never got redeemed. (Sorry Mum.)
In 2012 he left BBDO Paris to help launch Parisian boutique Rosapark, and over the following five years watched the agency win a reputation for creative daring, and grow to over one hundred people.
Today Jamie works at Ogilvy Paris. He and his creative director partner Mark Forgan have stuck around… Read More
NEW YORK, USA // Chris Rowson is Head of Design and Executive Creative Director at TBWA New York. He’s won over 100 international awards at all of the top award shows for some of the biggest global brands like McDonald’s, Perrier, IBM, Mondelez and Scrabble.
Craft has always been core to his approach and prior to TBWA he spent six years at Ogilvy in both Paris and New York offices, working as a creative and building award-winning… Read More
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA // Diego is the executive creative director at Mercado McCann and part of the team that founded the agency in late 2014. In 2015, the agency was in charge of launching the latest Coca-Cola global campaign. In 2016, Mercado McCann was the most awarded agency of McCann’s network after obtaining two Grand Prix at Ojo de Iberoamérica, two Grand Prix at Círculo de Creativos, and Gold at Clio, Effie and Sol de Iberoamérica,… Read More
PARIS, FRANCE // In 2004, after a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Mélanie logically fails all the entrance exams of public art schools. So, she goes to university and studies fine arts. At the same time, she works at McDonald’s. 13 years later, she logically has been promoted creative director on the McDonald’s account at DDB Paris.
Meanwhile, she finally succeeds to become Assistant Art Director at Publicis Conseil, and moves on to… Read More
MILAN, ITALY // Mihnea got into advertising when he was 19 in Bucharest, Romania.
In the years that followed, he worked in Paris, London, Madrid, Toronto and New York. The work he created and creative directed over the years has won over a hundred awards (Cannes lions, Clio, D&AD, One Show, ANDY, New York Festivals, London International Awards, Eurobest, Epica) and mean comments on some advertising blogs.
Mihnea likes to think… Read More
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA // She has experience working in some of the most creative agencies around the world, including London and Amsterdam. Over the past 4 years she has won a total of 16 lions at Cannes including a Grand Prix and 12 shortlists, across 5 different campaigns. This includes her GAYTM campaign for ANZ Bank which was also named the ‘Best Direct campaign in the World for 2014’ by the Big Won and #1 ‘Best of Print/Outdoor/Design for… Read More
MOSCOW, RUSSIA // Arina has worked in advertising since 2004. Her career started at Leo Burnett Moscow and continued at THEY Amsterdam, Duval Guillaume Brussels and Friends Moscow, own agency that has climbed to the 3rd place in the overall rating of creative agencies in Russia last year, and also became the exclusive Russian creative partner for Droga5 New York.
Over the years she has gained extensive experience doing digital, ATL and… Read More
TORONTO, CANADA // Pete started out as an account man where he learned a thing or two before summersaulting into the creative department. Since then he’s been cranking away, ending up in senior creative roles leading teams at some of Canada’s most awarded agencies. He’s spent the last six years opening and helping to build Anomaly in Toronto.
In his role as both a Creative and Creative Director, he has worked on a diverse roster of… Read More
LONDON, UK // Fura Johannesdottir, VP ECD at SapientRazorfish and leads the Experience Studio in the UK. She has almost 20 years of global experience in the industry, working with many of the world’s leading brands. Fura has lived and worked in USA, Sweden, UK, Turkey, the Middle East and Europe.
Fura has extensive experience, covering everything from digital campaigns to complicated systems design and retail experiences. She has… Read More
BOSTON, USA // Since joining Digitas in July 2016, Sue DeSilva has made gigantic differences in raising the creative bar in the Digitas Boston office. She brings two decades of experience having worked at several top agencies including Mullen, Arnold and GS&P.
Outside of the agency, she has dedicated her time to groups such as MGH Aspire – an organization dedicated to serving those with Autism – and New England Disabled Sports. She… Read More
NEW YORK, USA // Andrew is the Head of Design at Anomaly, leading the agency’s design-led projects, attracting new business opportunities and fostering design — one of Anomaly’s founding, core capabilities. Whilst he lives, breathes and dreams design, he’s an integrated creative at heart with a range of expertise developed over 14 years working across branding, advertising, digital, print and film.
A 5-and-a-half-year Anomaly veteran,… Read More