LOS ANGELES, USA // Aaron Michaelson is the President and Senior Creative Officer of Concept Arts, a leading creative agency founded by his parents more than 40 years ago. Under his leadership, the agency has grown to a team of over 100 and produced award-winning audio/visual, print, digital, and social campaigns for film, television, and gaming. From the opening identity for Universal Pictures to campaigns for Furious 7, Fifty Shades of Grey, Halo 5, DreamWorks Home, and Magic Mike XXL, Michaelson has helped shape the cultural presence of global franchises. Prior to Concept Arts, he was a print and event designer at NYC’s Frank 151 Magazine, a content designer at Jay Chiat’s Screaming Media, and a mobile developer at Sony Pictures Digital.

Michaelson holds a degree in Communication Arts from Marymount Manhattan College and spent a year in Tokyo studying mobile content development—becoming fluent in Japanese and an expert at navigating Tokyo’s streets on two wheels. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children, balancing leadership with creativity, curiosity, and the belief he learned a long time ago at Milken that “it’s ok to be a C student but you must always be an A person.”