PARIS, FRANCE // Erik Vervroegen began his career in his native Belgium, moving to TBWA Hunt Lascaris in South Africa and then onto Bozell New York. From there Erik moved to France as Executive Creative Director and President of TBWA Paris. Under his leadership TBWA Paris became Cannes Agency of the Year four years in a row. Returning to the USA Erik joined the San Francisco based, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.

Since 2011, Erik has taken up the new challenge of International Creative Director Publicis Worldwide, which sees him overseing creative in all the Publicis network agencies throughout Europe, Africa, Latin America, North America, Asia and Australia and lead creative on the global Ray-Ban business.

With almost 80 Cannes Lions, Erik is regarded as one of the most gifted creatives in the industry, awarded for his work on iconic brands such as Nissan, Playstation 2, McDonalds, The New York Times, Excedrin, BMW, Wonderbra, Land Rover and Ray-Ban.

Erik has been a juror or featured guest speaker at every major international awards show.