BERLIN, GERMANY // Constantin Dudzik is is a highly accomplished and respected leader in the industry, boasting a distinguished career spanning over more than 25 years. As the Chief Strategy Officer and Partner at the Scholz & Friends Group, Constantin has been pivotal in the agency’s growth. He co-founded and leads the largest strategy group in the German-speaking realm and earned the trust of premier bluechip brands.
He is a true… Read More
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL // Seasoned brand and business strategist, Laura Chiavone served the industry for the past two decades in identifying key cultural changes and shaping business strategies for brands. International executive of creative, digital agencies, and business transformation consultancies for the past 20 years, worked across Latam and North America contributing with multiple categories and advertisers.
Since early 2021, Laura… Read More
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA // Nkanyezi’s key responsibility is harnessing the creative energy of the Dentsu Creative network in Sub-Saharan Africa, alongside top-tier talent in the region.
His career began at TBWA Hunt Lascaris in 2002 as a junior writer. When he discovered that creativity has no cultural boundaries, he decided to take his talents to TBWA Hong Kong in 2007. And immediately got the once-in-a-life-time chance of working on… Read More
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS // Zeynep is a Turkish creative director currently cycling in Amsterdam and working at Wieden+Kennedy.
After getting her undergraduate degree in graphic design as a valedictorian, she had her master’s degree at SVA as a Fulbright Scholar. She graduated with Paula Rhodes Award for Exceptional Achievement in Design. After interning with Milton Glaser and Paula Scher (Pentagram); she worked at the New York City… Read More
MADRID, SPAIN // Bachelor Degree in Advertising and Public Relations, by the Complutense University of Madrid.
At present is Executive Creative Director in Proximity Madrid, specialized in digital and integrated advertising.
During her 20- years professional career, she’s always worked in interactive and direct marketing business environments such as Haiku Media or Universalia web, working with clients like Random House Mondadori,… Read More
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR // Advertising and me.
I am a great believer of ideas.
Advertising more than a career has been a life journey. I grew up in a household filled with creativity: A mom architect and an advertiser as a dad. A house filled by pencils, sketches, and the creation of ideas.
It was not only advertising that took me places since a young age such as Madrid due to my parents job, but it took me to… Read More
NEW YORK, USA // Natasha is an award-winning executive creative director who has spent her entire career in experiential marketing working on iconic brands across almost every industry – automotive, tech, entertainment, hospitality, food and beverage, fashion, and beauty. She has activated and lead teams across B2C, B2B, and B2E events and experiences for Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Budweiser, Westin, Sheraton, Airbnb, Google, Meta, Reddit,… Read More
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA // Josefina Casellas leads R/GA’s creative work for the Spanish-speaking market in Latin America. Responsible for overseeing a team of more than 70 professionals from different disciplines, such as Technology, Visual Design, UX and Production, she also supervises the creative collaboration and craft for global clients like Nike, Google, Samsung US and Global, Slack, ESPN, Ally, among others. With more than 18 years of… Read More
LONDON, UK // Caroline is a dynamic and inspiring creative leader with a huge breadth of experience, both on the brand-side and at many of the industry’s top agencies. As Chief Creative Officer of Dentsu Creative UK, her remit includes building a culture and ways of working that will unleash creativity across the network’s capabilities in Experience, Brand Transformation, Entertainment and Earned Attention.
Prior to joining Dentsu… Read More
BROOKLYN, USA // Bianca is an Executive Creative Director, a founding partner at Mischief, and an advocate for women in the industry. She’s behind culture-creating work, which has shifted societal perception of the world’s biggest brands, as well as the toughest issues.
Her work has been nominated for multiple Emmys (going on to win one) and has won more than 100 awards internationally.
Bianca’s accomplishments include being named… Read More
WARSAW, POLAND // She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Art Students League in New York. She has been associated with advertising since 1999. In the PIAFYS ranking, she took one of the top three places among all creative directors from Poland.
While developing the functions of Chief Creative Officer, DDB Warsaw became one of the most awarded agencies in Poland winning 3 times in a row Agency of the Year and 6 times… Read More
LONDON, UK // Ruth is a multi-dimensional creative leader, brand builder and storyteller who began her career in the luxury sector in Paris and London, working in-house at brands such as Louis Vuitton, Harrods and Net-a-Porter, before leading creative at some of the world’s top firms including Atelier_Leo Burnett, Spring Studios, McCann New York and McCann London.
Her creative work is always shaped by her background in beauty, fashion,… Read More
LOS ANGELES, USA // With over 20 years of experience in advertising and design, Veronica utilizes her passion for great ideas and visual language to inspire teams to create memorable and noteworthy campaigns.
Currently, she is the Chief Creative Officer at Conill Saatchi & Saatchi, where she oversees the Toyota account in addition to actively participating in new business initiatives.
Her performance at Conill has been crucial in… Read More
DUSSELDORF, GERMANY // As Chief Creative Officer at Philipp und Keuntje and fischerAppelt in Germany, Marjorieth is responsible for the entire creative output of the group’s offices in Hamburg, Berlin, and Stuttgart. As a half Venezuelan half Spanish mother of two, living and working in Hamburg, Marjorieth is multiculturally minded and a true expert at multitasking and proud mother of two.
She’s a proud presidency member of the Art… Read More
NEW YORK, USA // As BCW’s first ever Global Chief Creative Officer, Fede Garcia is responsible for driving powerful and provocative creativity and expanding the agency’s bench of creative talent worldwide. A copywriter by training, Fede is renowned for big ideas that challenge convention, inspire delight and provoke action. With strategic rigor, a global perspective, and a track record of game-changing ideas, Fede helps BCW move people in… Read More
WARSAW, POLAND // Dawid Szczepaniak is the Chief Creative Officer at VML Poland, where he leads a team of over 80 creatives. He was honored as Person of the Year by IAB Mixx Awards Poland in 2019 and by Brief Poland in 2013.
Dawid is a TEDx speaker and has earned more than 340 industry awards, including a Grand Prix, a Titanium award, and multiple others at the Cannes Lions Festival.
He achieved the distinction of bringing home… Read More
BROOKLYN, USA // Toygar was born in Turkey, grew up in Germany and moved to New York in 1997. In Germany he led BBDO to become the country’s most awarded network in 2008. Later he joined BBDO New York for 6 years running brands like Visa, Gillette, Campbell’s, HP, The American Red Cross, and Major League Baseball.
In 2015 he joined Havas as CCO for the Americas and worked hand-in-hand with media, data analytics and the AI capabilities… Read More
TORONTO, CANADA // Kevin Johnson is a seasoned media professional who brought 25+ years of industry experience across agencies and categories with him when he joined GroupM Canada as Chief Executive Officer at the end of 2021. Previous to that role, he was the CEO of MediaCom Canada bringing the agency tremendous success from a new business and agency profile standpoint. Those who work with Kevin attest to his passion and steadfast dedication… Read More
DUBAI, UAE // Named Creative Person of the Year twice by Campaign magazine, Ali Rez is the most awarded creative leader in the Middle East, and currently leads creative output for the IMPACT BBDO Group across the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan region. Rez’s work has been instrumental in Impact BBDO being named the No.2 Agency In The World on the WARC report, while winning 16 different Agency of the Year accolades in 2022 and 2023 for… Read More
DUBAI, UAE // Born in Mumbai. Bred in the Middle East. Manasvi, or Manu as the industry loves to call him, started his journey in Post-Production by putting in the hard yards as an editor. In a very short while he had worked his way up to executive producer. Then in 2007, at the age of 23, he started his own production house, Dejavu in Dubai. Fourteen years later and he’s turned it into one of the very best in the region with offices in… Read More
SHANGHAI, CHINA // Lily is our studios Managing Director.
Initially joining as Head of Production under the Technicolor banner Lily has been instrumental in our successful transition and launch as The Mill Shanghai.
With over 20 years experience in both production and VFX Lily has an unrivaled knowledge of the Asian market and has helped position The Mill as the foremost creative studio in the region.
Under her guidance she… Read More
VANCOUVER, CANADA // Michael Pal is an Associate Creative Director with over 7 years of experience. He has created successful campaigns for clients ranging from small local restaurants to some of the largest global brands, across almost every category. His work has been awarded nationally and internationally. His first job as a copywriter at Leo Burnett lead to his first Clio and D&AD pencils. He then worked for both FCB and Critical Mass…. Read More
NEW YORK, USA // writer, creative director and educator with a passion for getting under the hood on juicy stories and pushing creative boundaries until everything I work on is crazy or stupid or devastating. I believe in the power of curiosity, vulnerability, honesty, and a perfectly timed punchline. My favorite work hides in plain sight, keeps people connected, and bends toward justice.
Over the last decade or so in advertising, I’ve… Read More
LOS ANGELES, USA // Chris Graves is the Chief Creative Officer of Team One, Publicis Groupe’s premium branding agency. With a career that spans over three decades of award-winning creative work, Chris brings world-class branding experience to his clients’ businesses, particularly in the categories of automotive, hospitality and luxury goods.
After spending his formative years at Ogilvy and TBWA/Chiat/Day in New York, Chris returned to… Read More
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND // Born into a family of filmmakers, and son of Academy Award winning film producer Peter-Christian Fueter, Cannes Lions & Clio winner Tobias honed his skills at the esteemed NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
As the co-founder of stories AG, Switzerland’s premier commercial film production company, Tobias’ portfolio includes Christmas commercials, feature-length branded content, sports docutainment series, and animated… Read More
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL// Executive producer with over ten years of expertise, Patricia Caldas immersed herself in the advertising world, focusing primarily on production, specializing in client relations, sales, project and talent management, and strategy planning.
Currently, Patricia leads the corresponding department at MyMama Entertainment, a renowned film production company based in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. MyMama, a woman-owned… Read More
LONDON, UK // Film editor working on commercials, music videos, short films & documentaries; and is currently based in London, UK.
She grew up as a very active/sporty child and originally considered a career as a footballer; previously having played with Arsenal.
Naturally, she has been drawn to cutting movement/rhythm in her work – She’s also dedicated to crafting meaningful and intentional stories, generally with a raw… Read More
LONDON, UK // Sarah is an LA-born, London-based Creative Director working on Dove. She is one of the creatives behind Sport England’s “This Girl Can” campaigns and UEFA’s #WePlayStrong global launch, and has created for clients including BMW, the Home Office, easyJet, Coors Light, and O2.
A true multi-disciplinary thinker, Sarah has been a key member of multiple agency innovation teams and holds an MSc in the Social Science of the… Read More
LONDON, UK // Nikki Chapman is Director of Production at FCB London. Her journey into production began at the age of 22 as young PA at JWT, working her way up the ranks in some of London’s iconic advertising agencies: Saatchi & Saatchi, EuroRSCG, CHI, BBH and Publicis.
Her extensive production experience has taken her around the world shooting in many different locations on some of the world’s most famous campaigns.
Striving for… Read More
SHANGHAI, CHINA // Feng grew up in China. After he graduated from the creative design major of Nanjing Arts Institute in 2002, then he went to Paris to further his study. He achieved graduate diploma of Créapole in 2004 and he won many creative competition scholarship. After he worked in TBWA Paris and NEXTEO Paris and many other famous creative agencies.
In 2012, as the first creative director from China Mainland in Europe advertising… Read More
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL // Deh Bastos trabalhou para marcas como Coca-Cola, Petrobras, Ambev, Medley, Unilever, Nestle entre outras. Foi editora de conteúdo audiovisual e produtora de cinema em filmes institucionais, publicidades e televisão por 7 anos, onde inclusive, ganhou o Prêmio Monet em 2013 (Melhor Programa Feminino) com a equipe de produção do programa Boas-Vindas do canal GNT do grupo Globo.
Deh Bastos é comunicadora, mãe e… Read More
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA // Roderick Laka is a South African Art Director and Photographer obsessed with human connection through creativity. He has 10 years industry experience as a creative, innovating and building his career. Roderick believes times change, people change, need-states change, but the role a brand plays never should. So, let’s talk to people (not customers, consumers or clients), win their hearts and minds, and allow them to… Read More
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL // He worked at some of the most important Brazilian advertising agencies such as Ogilvy, W/Brasil (today W/McCann) and Talent (today Talent Marcel).
He won several awards such as: Brazilian Creative Annual (top 5 copywriter) and TV Globo awards for best Ad TV campaign.
He also worked as a Creative Director for over a decade.
He was a screenwriter for famous TV series in Brazil (Retrato… Read More
LONDON, UK // Dillah is a Creative Director and Partner at BBH London. Her forte is in innovation, experiential, social and entertainment. This includes some of BBH’s most award-winning projects for Google, Nike, Netflix and Disney Marvel. Having worked in Singapore, Los Angeles and New York, she comes with global experience and understanding of how creativity impacts different markets and cultures. Having been a judge for many international… Read More
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND // Hadleigh Sinclair is Group Creative Director at Colenso BBDO.
He’s a lover of off-kilter ideas.
He’s loaned the most successful professional sports team in history to small businesses and inspired thousands of New Zealanders to record a nationwide radio campaign for free.
He’s made New Zealand’s favourite ad 3 years running.
He’s marketed a country as a paradise for losers, developed an… Read More
SOMERVILLE, USA // Amy Manganiello is a Creative Marketer with 20 years’ experience in creating breakthrough global campaigns for brands such as Coca-Cola, smartwater, Reebok, Volkswagen and Volvo. Her work transforming creative strategy into compelling consumer activations has been recognized by Cannes Lions, The Clio Awards, One Show, and D&AD among others.
Amy thrives in spearheading initiatives that push the boundaries of… Read More
PARIS, FRANCE // Julie Touyarot brings 15 years of marketing expertise within the tech industry. Her journey includes significant tenure at Google in both the United States and France before joining Uber at its inception in 2015. As Marketing Director for Western Europe, Uber Eats & Uber, she oversees seven key markets for the two major brands. Julie has been pivotal in building and expanding Uber’s marketing department, achieving… Read More
NEW YORK, USA // As the #1 Creative Director in the world in the 2023 The One Club Global Rankings and one of the most awarded Creative Directors in the world in 2022–Alex has continued to prove that his talent pushes the confines of creativity while serving as an economic multiplier for clients.
He was crucial in fueling organic growth from FCBNY’s AB-InBev business. His leadership on Cannes Lions 2023 Entertainment for Sports GP… Read More
TORONTO, CANADA // Todd Mackie is a wannabe-professional-fisherman who had to rely on his fallback plan, which led him into a career in advertising. He started with the bigger shops in Toronto, Cossette, DDB and BBDO before venturing out into new waters. In 2020, he left to start his own agency, Broken Heart Love Affair, with 4 other partners. He’s had a good run, winning a bunch at Cannes, landing a whack load of other International and… Read More