See who will be judging your Creativity entries
Final deadline is Dec. 19 at 5pm ET
The honorees in the long-running A-List Awards are handpicked by the editorial staff at Ad Age. For the Creativity Awards, esteemed juries convened by Ad Age will choose finalists and winners. See below for this year’s 2020 Creativity Award judges.
Executive Creative Director
72andSunny
Justine Armour co-leads the creative department at 72andSunny New York and the work on Smirnoff, Spotify, Trojan, Halo Top, Audible and Marcus by Goldman Sachs. For over 20 years, Armour has consistently made and led award-winning work that transforms brands and cuts through culture.
Chief Creative Officer
TBWA/Chiat/Day New York
Chris Beresford-Hill is the chief creative officer of TBWA\Chiat\Day NY, where he is responsible for the agency’s creative output.
Under Beresford-Hill’s leadership, TBWA\Chiat\Day NY has transformed itself, resulting in industry and cultural recognition, including being ranked fifth on Ad Age’s 2019 Agency A-List and being named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies and Adweek's Network of the Year.
In addition, TBWA\Chiat\Day NY won Ad Age's Experiential Campaign of the Year; the inaugural YouTube awards’ “Best Creative;” Network of the Year from the Art Director’s Club (with three Best in Discipline awards); Best in Experiential at One Show; three Yellow Pencils at D&AD; and five Gold Lions, plus 13 more awards at Cannes (the most in the office’s history), all across a variety of clients, becoming one of the most creatively awarded agencies in the world.
Beresford-Hill is most proud of his partnerships at TBWA\Chiat\Day NY, where creativity is owned by the entire agency, not just the namesake department, and where there is a burgeoning culture of kindness.
Global Chief Creative Officer
Publicis Worldwide
Born in Verona, after earning a degree in Semiotics, Bruno Bertelli made his first steps into copywriting in New York after attending the School of Visual Arts. He moved to JWT Italy in 1998, where he remained until 2010 with the role of creative director on high profile international accounts and executive creative director of the Rome office.
In January 2011, he joined Publicis Italy as executive creative director together with Cristiana Boccassini and in 2013 they were appointed global creative directors for Publicis Worldwide on Heineken and members of the International Creative Board. In November 2014, Publicis Worldwide appointed him CEO of Publicis Italy. Thanks to his work on the client, in June 2015 he was appointed as global leader on Heineken for the network and in November 2016, ECD of Publicis Western Europe.
In May 2016, Bertelli was nominated for global CCO of Publicis Worldwide, maintaining the role as CEO of Publicis Italy. Along with Boccassini, he is the most-awarded Italian creative in the world with 67 Cannes Lions, of which 14 are Gold, one Grand Clio and one Grand Prix at the NYF, as well as many other national and international awards. Bertelli led the Diesel brand to be recognized by the highly-coveted Ad Club of New York’s Brave Brands Award.
Ad Age named Bruno one of its Top 50 Creatives of 2017, alongside creative pioneers including Rihanna, Patty Jenkins and Terry Crews.
Chief Brand & Experience Officer
GALE Partners
Winston Binch leads Gale’s brand and experience team. Over the last 18 years, he’s advised countless global brands on the marketing potential of the digital age including Domino’s, American Express, Target, Burger King, Nike, Vail Resorts, Taco Bell and Volkswagen. Prior to joining Gale, Binch was an independent business consultant and chief digital officer of Deutsch North America. In 2017, he was named one of the 100 people who make advertising great by the 4A’s. In 2016, Adweek recognized him as one of the 50 most indispensable executives in marketing, media and tech. Before Deutsch, Binch led digital and was a partner at Crispin Porter Bogusky. He also worked at R/GA and Sony Music. Binch is a board member of Protect Our Winters, a non-profit dedicated to the fight against climate change. He has two daughters, lives in New York City and used to play guitar in a touring indie rock band, Stereobate.
Chief Creative Officer
BBH
Joakim “Jab” Borgström is a highly acclaimed creative professional with over two decades of experience in the advertising industry.
Borgström started his career at BBH as group creative director in London in 2014. He moved to Singapore to take on the top creative role at the end of 2016 and was promoted to worldwide chief creative officer in September 2019.
Jab has a strong belief in the power of technology to unleash creativity. Under his tenure, BBH Singapore produced standout, broad ranging examples of modern creativity such as ‘Human Catalogue’ for IKEA and ‘Go BKK’, ‘Hypercourt’ and ‘Battle Force Live’ for Nike. In 2019, the agency launched an innovative new storytelling format in the form of the Nike Women Instazine, a sports magazine built for the social media generation. Borgström’s impact was recognized in 2018 when BBH Singapore was named Ad Age’s International Agency of the Year.
Borgström is the winner of over 170 awards including 20 One Show pencils, 11 Cannes Lions and a Cannes Grand Prix. He has been invited to sit on the jury of 20+ award shows and is a sought-after speaker in the industry.
Prior to joining BBH, Borgström held leadership roles at top global agencies including Goodby Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco, Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam and DoubleYou in Barcelona. Throughout his career, he has worked on global brands as diverse as Nike, Audi, Coca-Cola, Google, Doritos, Barclays, Heineken, and Chevrolet. Originally from Sweden— with Swedish and Argentinean heritage—Borgström has worked in five different countries and speaks as many languages.
Chief Creative Officer & CEO
NORD DDB
Andreas Dahlqvist has returned to DDB as chief creative officer and CEO of newly-formed NORD DDB, bringing the Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo and Helsinki shops together under one roof.
Prior to this new move, Dahlqvist was the chief creative officer of Grey New York where he oversaw a 350-person creative department. Under his leadership, Grey New York was for the first time ranked the number one agency in the U.S. and North America and the number two agency in the world by Cannes Lions in 2016.
Prior to joining Grey in 2015, Dahlqvist was president of the McCann Creative Leadership Council, the global creative group that inspires and promotes creative excellence across the McCann network, and chief creative officer at Commonwealth, the global, dedicated business unit serving Chevrolet and General Motors. Previously, Dahlqvist served as vice chairman of McCann New York and deputy CCO for Global Brands. Dahlqvist started his career at McCann by leading McCann NY to its most awarded year ever, the highlight of which was being named Agency of the Year at The Art Director’s Club. Prior to McCann, Dahlqvist founded DDB in Sweden. Under his creative and strategic leadership, the Gunn Report ranked the agency both the best interactive and best digital agency in the world. The agency was also ranked the best creative agency in the region for three consecutive years.
Over his career, Dahlqvist has created many groundbreaking campaigns for clients such as Gillette, NFL, McDonald’s, DirecTV, AT&T, General Mills, Diesel Jeans, Coca-Cola, Chevrolet, The Swedish Armed Forces, Volvo, Skoda, Panasonic and Volkswagen to name a few. Some of his recent most awarded campaigns include The Gun Shop for States United to Prevent Gun Violence, Super Bowl Babies for the NFL, Volvo Interception and #DadDo for Pantene. Among the big award winners was “The Fun Theory” for Volkswagen—the most viral campaign in the world at the time. Dahlqvist has won nearly every major creative award in existence, including Cannes Titanium and Grand Prix Lions. He has been listed on Ad Age’s Creativity 50, an annual list of innovators and category-definers who help to shape and redefine advertising, marketing and popular culture at large.
Co-Chief Creative Officer
Droga5
Tim Gordon joined Droga5 in 2008 as one of the first creatives. Having helped grow the agency during its formative years, Gordon rose the ranks in the creative department and was promoted to executive creative director in 2017. As one of Droga5’s first employees, Gordon has been behind some of the agency’s most acclaimed creative work for its clients including Puma, Under Armour, The New York Times and Chase. As co-chief creative officer, Gordon, oversees the creative department in New York so that it continues to foster high-caliber creativity for all of Droga5’s clients.
Incoming Chief Creative Officer
Havas London
Vicki Maguire is the incoming chief creative officer of Havas London. One of the most high-profile and awarded creative leaders working in the industry today, she is a regular Cannes Lions juror and speaker, has been named one of advertising’s Women of Tomorrow by the IPA, was voted one of the 10 most influential women in advertising by Business Insider and, from 2016-2018, was the first-ever female chair of the Creative Circle Awards. She has previously worked for agencies across the UK, Europe and Australia including Amsterdam International, Mojo, Wieden + Kennedy and, most recently, Grey London, where she spent the past 10 years.
Global Creative Director, Nike
Wieden+Kennedy Portland
Ryan O’Rourke is the global creative director on Nike at Wieden + Kennedy in Portland, Oregon.
O’Rourke joined W+K in 2003 and began serving as creative director in 2010.
As creative director, O’Rourke oversees every category on Nike’s global business and contributes to the broad range of storytelling W+K has helped Nike establish across the globe. O’Rourke’s leadership has led to the creation of some of the most celebrated and globally recognized campaigns.
As a creative director, O’Rourke has overseen NBA campaigns featuring Kobe Bryant and LeBron James including “LeBron’s Rise,” the “Find Your Greatness” and “Unlimited” Olympics campaigns and the “Risk Everything” World Cup campaign. Some of his most recent work includes the Cannes Lion-winning “Breaking 2” campaign, and the entirety of the 30th anniversary “Just Do It” campaign—arguably the most talked about advertising campaign of the year.
Prior to serving as creative director, O’Rourke was an art director on Nike, where his work included “Fate,” “Human Chain,” “Leave Nothing,” “The Michael Vick Experience,” and “Livestrong.”
During his time at W+K, O’Rourke has also worked on Target, AOL, Powerade and Procter & Gamble’s Winter Olympics “Proud Sponsor of Moms” campaign.
Prior to working at W+K, O’Rourke spent over three years as an art director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Miami, Florida where he created campaigns for Ikea, MINI Cooper and Truth.
O’Rourke’s work has been recognized by The One Show, Cannes, Clios, D&AD, Communication Arts, Art Director’s Club, the Effies, Entertainment Weekly Magazine, Time Magazine, ESPN’s Sportscenter and The New York Times, and skewered on the Dave Chappelle Show and South Park.
O’Rourke is originally from Western Pennsylvania and he is a proud 1999 graduate of graphic design from Penn State University.
EVP Chief Creative Officer U.S.
R/GA
As EVP Chief Creative Officer US, Tiffany Rolfe champions R/GA’s creative vision across the agency’s six U.S. offices and works in partnership with Richard Ting, EVP global chief experience officer and US chief creative officer, to lead creative teams that work at the intersection of business and culture to deliver transformational work to global clients.
Rolfe is well-known for developing strategic creative solutions that lead to business and cultural impact, and she brings over 20 years of design and creative experience to her position. Prior to R/GA, she spent over six years at Co:Collective as Partner and Chief Creative Officer, where she acted as lead partner for the Puma account and oversaw a highly successful campaign that catapulted YouTube stars to fame. Before Co:Collective, she spent a decade at CP+B where she was VP, Executive Creative Director and led accounts such as MINI Cooper, Microsoft, VW, American Express, Hulu, Virgin Atlantic, Burger King and Old Navy.
Rolfe’s work has been featured in leading publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, Ad Age, and Adweek. Her work has earned awards at every major creative and effectiveness competition including Best of Show at One Show, Grand Prix and Titanium Lions at Cannes Lions and a Grand Clio.
Rolfe was named one of Ad Age’s Women to Watch and is currently on the board of The One Club and the Ad Council Creative Committee. She is particularly proud of the work she did with ACLU following the 2016 election, where she led brand identity and external campaigns.
Executive Creative Director
FCB New York
The man behind some of marketing’s most beloved and purposeful stunts, it was under Gabriel Schmitt’s leadership that “The Whopper Detour” quickly became Burger King’s best promotion ever, notching three Grand Prix at Cannes Lions 2019, including the coveted Titanium honor.A Brazilian-born creative—and the second most awarded creative director according to this year’s Cannes Lions Global Creativity Report— Schmitt’s disruptive work for brands like Valspar and Contours Baby Stroller has won him almost every prestigious award in the industry, and was picked up by The New York Times, CNN and Fast Company, to name a few. At FCB, Schmitt is re-engineering brand-building work for GSK while receiving an Executive MBA from the Berlin School of Creative Leadership. Before joining FCB, he led the BMW business at KBS.
Portfolio: gabrielschmitt.com/
Chief Creative Officer
Leo Burnett London
Chaka Sobhani is chief creative officer of Leo Burnett London. With 20 years of experience as an award winning director, writer and creative director, she has worked for the biggest broadcasters, brands and agencies worldwide.
She hasn’t had a conventional advertising career, having spent over 10 years as a filmmaker and in television. Sobhani was recruited by ITV to set up and ECD its first in-house creative agency, production company and design studio. During this time, the network regained the no. 1 position in the UK, created its most successful global formats and content in the X Factor and Downton Abbey, and won the prestigious Channel of the Year for the first time in the agency’s history, as well as numerous BAFTA’s and the Rose D’Or.
Sobhani then spent a number of years at leading independent agency Mother, running a number of accounts and building its content ability, before joining Leo Burnett. She has worked on countless brands including McDonalds, Boots, Coca Cola, Kellogg, Co-op, Sky, NSPCC, Stella Artois, Agent Provocateur and Adidas. Highly awarded amongst all the major honours, Sobhani has overseen Leo Burnett London be named 2016 Agency of the Year by Epica and 2016 Direct Agency of the Year by Campaign, as well be part of the most awarded network in the world, according to Ad Age’s 2015 Awards Report.
VP, Global Executive Creative Director
Spotify
After a decade working at creative agencies in Australia, South East Asia and the U.S., Alex Bodman joined Spotify in 2015. In the four years since, he has built its creative group to over 55 people, creating award-winning work that spans digital, data storytelling, documentary content, artist marketing, outdoor, broadcast, original music, content identity and experiential. Originally from Sydney, Australia, he now lives in Brooklyn.
CEO
The Martin Agency
Cavallo never thought she’d be a CEO. She 100% wanted to be that cool, swashbuckling momma taking her kids on international escapades around the globe. Luckily, she said yes to both.
With over 25 years’ experience working with high-octane brands, in her first year back at The Martin Agency in 2018 she led the charge to eradicate the gender wage gap, tackle invisibility with diversity and create impactful ideas for clients like GEICO, CarMax, UPS and Buffalo Wild Wings. In 2019, Cavallo was named Executive of the Year by Ad Age and was included in Adweek’s Trailblazers list along with agency CCO Karen Costello.
Every year, Cavallo challenges herself to stare one impossible thing in the face and overcome it (think climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro or seeing all seven continents with her kids).
Cavallo believes in leading with heart, in overcoming fear and that real creative magic lies somewhere in between.
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
JOAN Creative
Lisa Clunie is the co-founder and chief executive officer of JOAN Creative. Over the past few years, JOAN has launched a series of companies under its banner. JOAN develops brand strategies and premium advertising for a broad range of clients, including Facebook, Uber, Keds, SafeAuto, Georgia Pacific and General Mills. Damn Joan creates playful and provocative original content for its hyper-loyal audience, defined by their joyfully rebellious spirit. JOAN Studios is an at-scale production and distribution company. JOAN was named an Agency to Watch by Ad Age in 2018. Prior to launching her company in 2016, Clunie was the chief operating officer for Refinery29.
President/CEO
BBDO New York
Kirsten Flanik is president/CEO of BBDO New York, helping to shape the direction for the agency, with a focus on people, “The Work,” and innovation that drives client growth.
Flanik joined BBDO in 2006, was promoted to managing director in 2010, and appointed president in 2016. She has been named a “Woman to Watch” and one of the “100 Most Influential Women in Advertising” by Ad Age, among other recognitions.
Flanik began her advertising career in 1989 in Florida. Subsequently, she spent six years at Fallon before moving to New York in 2001 to work at BBH.
Flanik is a graduate of the University of Florida and an Alumni of Distinction.
President
360i New York
As President of the agency’s largest office and headquarters, Abbey Klaassen plays a critical role on 360i’s executive steering committee guiding direction and strategic decisions for the company. She is responsible for the growth and culture of the agency’s New York location, home to 500 employees and numerous marquee accounts. As part of her remit, Klaassen leads national practices including social marketing, influencer marketing & PR, agency communications and new business, and acts as executive sponsor for key client accounts.
Klaassen was named one of Ad Age’s Women to Watch in 2018, the same year she was inducted into the American Advertising Federation Hall of Achievement in recognition of her contributions to the industry.
Klaassen joined 360i in 2015 as chief marketing officer, overseeing marketing, public relations and business development initiatives and developing new and existing lines of business for the agency. Previously, Klaassen was at 360i parent company Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN) where she most recently served as director of corporate strategy development for the Americas, helping shape acquisition strategy, the enterprise innovation agenda and core capabilities. Prior to joining DAN, Klaassen spent a decade at Ad Age where she rose to the position of associate publisher, overseeing editorial, content marketing and audience development.
Klaassen currently sits on the 4A’s Board of Directors. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Drake University in Iowa.
Founder and Chief Creative Officer
The Community/La Comunidad
José Molla has been the co-founder and chief creative officer of The Community/La Comunidad, an agency with offices in Miami, Buenos Aires, NY, San Francisco and London, since 2001.
Before opening The Community, Molla was creative director at Wieden+Kennedy in Portland, Oregon for five years. His work for Nike International, Coca-Cola and PowerBar led him to work at Wieden’s Amsterdam and London offices.
Prior to Wieden+Kennedy, Molla worked at Ratto/BBDO in Argentina as a writer and then executive creative director. Under Molla’s leadership, Ratto/BBDO won more national and international awards than any other Argentinean agency and was named “Agency of the Year” by Ad Age in 1996.
Molla has judged international Awards, such as The One Show, Cannes, Clios, D&AD, ANDYS, Art Directors Club, and London Festival several times. He is also a Board Member of The One Club for Creativity and served as Chairman of the Board for 4 years.
Partner and Director of Brand Strategy
Goodby Silverstein & Partners
Bonnie Wan is partner and director of brand strategy at Goodby Silverstein & Partners. In her time at the helm, the agency has surged in momentum, grown $1 billion in new media billings and added Pepsi, BMW, Liberty Mutual, HP, One Medical, Soda Stream, SF Giants, Chase Center and Indio Agriculture to its client roster. Wan has also led the growth of Brand Camp, an accelerated and concentrated path to identifying a brand’s position and POV.
Wan’s leadership has resulted in some of the agency’s most notable work this year. For example, BMW’s Certified Pre-Owned program campaign cleverly re-engineers old BMW ads to demonstrate the long-standing value of BMW cars. For Liberty Mutual, she helped develop the Limu Emu “Only pay for what you need” campaign and informed a refresh of “Truth Tellers,” taking an absurd twist on an old formula and boosting brand recall by 25%. Wan was instrumental in the creation of HP’s “Get Real” campaign which examines technology’s impact on the ways we connect, create and relate.
Wan was also part of the team that created Lessons in Herstory, an augmented-reality app that rewrites and rebalances history education by showcasing the stories of women who have been omitted. The app has been featured in Fast Company, Good Morning America and Fortune. The app has been used in middle schools across seven US states, and its reach went global when amplified by The World Economic Forum, UN Women and The Global Summit of Women.
Wan is also creator, teacher and keynote lecturer for “The Life Brief,” a practice that gained public recognition after her article on the topic became Campaign magazine’s fifth-most-shared piece in 2016. It has earned her speaking appearances at the 3% Conference, Bain Consulting Group, University of Oregon and Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop. And as a mother of four kids, Bonnie’s experiences as a female breadwinner is chronicled in the documentary film The Big Flip.
Head of Account Management
Johannes Leonardo
As head of account management, Emily Wilcox leads our team of account leaders across our portfolio of client businesses. She believes that great account leadership starts with strategically minded, creatively passionate people who are eager to solve business problems with the power of creativity.
Before joining Johannes Leonardo, Wilcox was senior vice president, group account director at Saatchi & Saatchi where she led the General Mills account across a portfolio of brands including Cheerios, Pillsbury, Green Giant, Yoplait and Progresso, was a member of the New York leadership team and led agency integration across the Publicis Groupe network. Prior to Saatchi & Saatchi, Wilcox worked at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment on the Global Revlon and Almay businesses, specializing in the development of celebrity talent campaigns.
As a strong supporter of the next generation of advertising talent, Wilcox has been a guest speaker at AAF AdCamp, and has been involved in multiple youth development programs throughout her career. She holds a B.A. in Public Communications from SUNY College at Buffalo, and an M.B.A. from The College of St. Rose. An avid runner and tennis player, Wilcox lives in Queens with her husband and daughter.
Chief Production Officer
McCann NY
An award-winning producer and content director, Nathy Aviram oversees all production at McCann across broadcast, digital and experiential for the agency’s clients. Additionally, he leads the development effort on innovation initiatives. Aviram’s recent work includes the technologically groundbreaking “Field Trip to Mars” and “Fearless Girl,” the bronze statue that sparked a cultural debate.
After starting his career in the New York indie film community, Aviram spent ten years producing some of the world’s most awarded and iconic advertising, including Absolut Films, one of the first examples of integrated branded content, as well as the original Skittles and Starburst campaigns and “Y’all vs Us,” a 12 episode docu-series about Mississippi High School Football for Cellular South that ran on Fox Sports.
Managing and Creative Partner
UNIT9
Michelle Craig is an award-winning writer, producer, director and managing & creative partner for UNIT9, Ad Age’s 2019 Production Company of the Year. Her early work in immersive theatre and film has enabled her to lead the way with emerging content. Craig’s true passion is establishing young directors and scouting talent which is reflected in the roster. Her belief that everything has a story has been something that UNIT9 has focused on regardless of platform, and has helped impact work for Save The Children, Greenpeace and more traditional advertisers like Gatorade, Amazon and Nike.
Chief Creation Officer
Droga5
Sally-Ann Dale is an award-winning international producer with three decades of experience. She was head of TV at Saatchi & Saatchi London before moving to New York City in 2003 to work at Publicis. In 2006, she helped start Droga5 and now serves as the chief creation officer, overseeing production and Second Child. Fast Company named Dale one of the most creative people in business in 2016. She lives in Brooklyn with her two children.
Co-Founder and President
PRETTYBIRD
Kerstin Emhoff is the co-founder & president of PRETTYBIRD, a hybrid production company she established with director Paul Hunter in 2008. With offices in Los Angeles and London, PRETTYBIRD is home to a diverse roster of filmmakers, creatives and collaborators with a distinct vision to produce inspiring content for all forms of entertainment.
Well-connected and reputable, Emhoff is recognized for her successful and long- lasting relationships with top agencies, clients, artists and managers. Her experience and unique style across various mediums and platforms have continuously allowed her to stand out in her industry. Under her direction, PRETTYBIRD has collected Grammys, Emmys, D&AD Awards, Cannes Lions & Grand Prix, Clio’s and MTV Video Music Awards—in addition to being named Ad Age’s 2015 Production Company of the Year.
Doubling as a producer and an executive producer, Emhoff has been involved in a wide range of PRETTYBIRD’s eclectic work, including Intel & Lady Gaga’s David Bowie Tribute at the 2016 Grammy Awards; Netflix’s epic EDM rave film XOXO starring Sarah Hyland; Atlas Entertainment’s The Monster, directed by Brian Bertino; and Greg Barker’s HBO Documentary The Final Year. Emhoff has produced over 13 movies and documentaries, including HBO’s 2013 Primetime Emmy Award Winner Manhunt: The Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden and the Oscar shortlisted documentary The Tillman Story. Recently, her feature documentary Ready for War, directed by PRETTYBIRD’s Andrew Renzi and co-executive produced by Candice Dragonas, premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Additionally, her documentary A/K/A I Am Jane Roe, capturing Norma McCorvey, the original ‘Jane Roe’ plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade case, during what would be the final year of her life as she reveals the truth behind her journey from pro-choice to pro- life activist, was acquired by FX.
Emhoff is a respected member of several esteemed juries and creative industry organizations. She has served on the AICP Board for over ten years, including two terms as AICP/West President. She is a member of the D&AD International Advisory Panel and Los Angeles’ Mayor Garcetti’s Entertainment Advisory Panel.
Emhoff is currently developing Pipelines, a diversity and inclusion platform aimed toward combating the disconnect between minorities and jobs within entertainment, tech and creative industries.
Executive Director of Production
Wieden + Kennedy Portland
As executive director of production, Matt Hunnicutt oversees Wieden + Kennedy Portland’s productions across all content platform for clients including Nike, Facebook, Coca-Cola, Old Spice, P&G, Instagram, KFC, Magic Leap, Travel Oregon and Samsung.
Hunnicutt was previously Wieden + Kennedy’s Nike Global and North America executive producer and integrated director and, before that, executive producer on Facebook and Coke. He joined Wieden + Kennedy in 2006 as a senior producer from BBDO in Chicago.
In his past production life, Hunnicutt was a documentary producer for National Geographic, Discovery and A&E after beginning his career as a National Eastman Kodak Scholar working with the ICG in Hollywood at Warner Bros Studios.
Hunnicutt’s team has helped Wieden + Kennedy be named the World’s #1 Most Innovative Company in Advertising & Marketing in 2018 and 2019 by Fast Company, as well as similar 2019 agency of the year achievements by Ad Age, Adweek and Cannes Lions.
Hunnicutt has family roots in Detroit and Austin, and currently lives in Portland with his wife and their three young children.
Chief Production Officer
DDB
Diane Jackson transcends barriers and expectations, not only by what she does for DDB as their chief production officer, but by sustaining DDB Chicago’s growth and profile in the industry. Her influence continues to permeate the company both locally and globally on brands such as State Farm, Mars Wrigley, Miller Coors and FCA’s Jeep.
Jackson is one of the top production executives in the US because of her ability to turn creative ideas into reality. She’s a transcendent leader of integrated production.
Jackson has served on multiple juries for Cannes, D&AD, One Show, AICP and London International Awards.
Head of Integrated Production
Johannes Leonardo
Dana May is an industry vet in agency production, known for her deep passion and leadership in driving creative excellence.
May was most recently head of integrated production at Johannes Leonardo, where she built and led a team of fully integrated producers, business affairs managers and a nimble in-house production crew. She was a member of the management team that helped the agency achieve the best year in its history—ranking #4 on the Ad Age A-List in 2018—with six major new business wins including Volkswagen, Gap Inc., MassMutual, EA Sports, Amazon and Bleacher Report.
Before joining Johannes Leonardo, Dana led production for the Verizon Wireless business at McCann, and prior to that she was head of production at CHI&Partners, now The&Partnership, where she helped take it from five employees to about 150 across North America with new business wins including The Wall Street Journal, Diageo’s Bulleit Bourbon, Hotel Indigo, Samsung and TELUS (Canada).
May has produced award-winning work at other creative agencies such as Droga5, Anomaly, BBH, Mother and Ogilvy. In 2009, she was in Creativity’s Agency Producers report.
Producer and Co-Founder / President
SMUGGLER
Patrick Milling-Smith is producer, co-founder and president of international production company SMUGGLER Inc, Ad Age’s 2017 Production Company of the Year. From a Tony Award Winning Broadway musical, Grammy-winning album, multiple Cannes Lions Grand Prix, Palme d’Ors, Clios, category-defining virtual & augmented reality, to Emmy-awarded storytelling, Milling-Smith’s focus is on innovative storytelling and working with first-class talent to create impactful work that resonates, regardless of the medium or platform.
Notable theatre projects include international hit and 8x Tony Award Winning Musical “Once;” an audience-favorite Broadway show “Seminar” starring the late Alan Rickman and extended by Jeff Goldblum; a virtual reality experience of Othello which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May; the stage adaptation of Robert Evans memoir “The Kid Stays in the Picture”—which had a sold-out run at the Royal Court Theatre in London—written and directed by Simon McBurney; and the one-night-only Broadway Musical “Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical” by playwrights Will Eno and Nathanial Lawlor and starring Michael C. Hall. Upcoming projects include the musical production of "Sing Street" opening on December 18 at New York Theatre Workshop and moving to Broadway for an opening in April 2020.
Recent film projects include the recently released New York Times Critics’ Pick movie “Weightless,” written by Edna Walsh and directed by Jaron Albertin.
Milling-Smith has served as the Jury Chairman of the Clio awards and on the board of The New York Theatre Workshop and currently sits on the board of Immersive theatre company Punchdrunk International (Sleep No More).
EVP, Director of Integrated Production
Saatchi & Saatchi NY and Publicis NY
Jenny Read’s career hasn’t always taken the traditional path. Her first job was in social work before moving to advertising, only to find the sole difference is that the budgets are bigger.
From her first agency job as an art buyer she moved to producing print and TV for global beauty companies at agencies and in-house. Since then, she has held just about every job you can have in production, and with that experience brings a well-rounded point of view to every endeavor.
Currently the director of integrated production at Saatchi & Saatchi and Publicis New York, she brings over 20 years of production experience.
Prior to helming Publicis Groupe’s multiagency production arm in New York, Read was the head of production at KBS, where she also created and ran the Armoury, its in-house content production studio. The Armoury went on to create the agency’s first short film to be featured in the Tribeca Film Festival.
From shooting Super Bowl spots to print campaigns, developing and evolving in-house production facilities, filming in over 20 countries, producing countless videos and having work in every major production awards show—Read has it covered.
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Coolhaus
Natasha Case founded Coolhaus in 2009 with Freya Estreller after working in architecture at Walt Disney Imagineering. They launched their architecturally-inspired, unique ice cream sandwich company from their barely drivable postal van at the Coachella Music Festival to an audience of 100,000. They built a loyal following over the festival weekend and returned to L.A. to an abundance of viral press, a rapidly building social media following and an eager foodie audience. Since then, Case has been named one of Forbes’s 30 Under 30 for food and beverage, Zagat’s 30 Under 30, LinkedIn’s 10 Under 35 for food and leisure, and more recently, UCLA LGBTQ+ 2019 Alum of the Year. She has been featured in many national publications and media outlets like Cosmo, Dwell, Bon Appetit, Bustle, Vice and NPR and Food52, and TV shows including Food Network’s Chopped, Barefoot Contessa, Unique Sweets, Good Morning America, King of Cones, Andy Cohen Live and Top Chef Junior. Case also co-hosts her own podcast, ‘Start to Sale,’ through Eater/Vox Media. In 2019, she was named UCLA LGBT Recent Alumni of the Year and joined YPO Beverly Hills Chapter. She has done brand partnerships with Bustle, Lexus, MeUndies and K-Swiss amongst others. The company has become a pioneer in dessert innovation with its thoughtfully architected creations and is the leading women-owned ice cream business at grocery stores, growing significantly to include not only four trucks and two storefronts in L.A., two trucks in NYC and four trucks in Texas, but consumers can now find Coolhaus’s artisan crafted ice cream sandwiches, pints and bars in 7,500+ gourmet grocery stores (in every state) ranging from Whole Foods and Wegman’s to Kroger, Safeway Albertson’s and Publix. Coolhaus is distributed internationally in Asia and the Middle East as well. In 2019, Coolhaus launched its first dairy-free line with sandwiches and pints which has been a huge success at Whole Foods and other specialty/natural stores.
Today, Case leads the way as the CEO of Coolhaus, leading innovation—including novelties that will roll out in 2020—and guiding the brand with fresh, unique ideas that keep Coolhaus on top of its game as zealous expansion to become the household brand of the millennial generation continues.
Founding Partner
Anomaly
As one of the core leaders at Anomaly, Jason DeLand sets the global vision for the agency. His role encompasses growth and compensation strategy and the leadership of Anomaly’s ventures business. Since co-founding Anomaly in 2004 at the ripe age of 27, the business has grown significantly both nationally and globally.
Anomaly now has seven offices with locations in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Berlin and Shanghai, with over 500 employees worldwide. Anomaly’s success has earned Ad Age’s highest recognition, 2017 Agency of the Year, and Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World.
DeLand leads major client business including Panera, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Dosist, and was the core leader for eight years running Global Budweiser, including creating three of the most liked and viewed Super Bowl ads of all time. In 2012, Adweek featured Jason on their 20 Most Influential People Under 40 list.
Additionally, he is one of the founding members and board chair of dosist, which has been recognized for its innovation and leadership in the medicinal cannabis space by TIME, Fast Company and Bloomberg. DeLand was recently recognized by High Times as one of the most 100 influential people in cannabis.
DeLand regularly serves as a press commentator and marketing expert, appearing on the likes of Charlie Rose, Bloomberg News, MSNBC and in Fast Company among others. He is also a board member of DREAM in Harlem NYC.
Jason graduated from Ithaca College where he studied communications and political science and lettered four years on the baseball team.
As a kid, DeLand grew up fly-fishing in the back streams and lakes of upstate New York. Today, you can likely find him on a rock somewhere in Montauk at night searching for the ever-elusive striped bass.
About Anomaly
Founded just over 10 years ago, Anomaly is a difficult to define, but an exciting to-work-at “new model” agency. Driven by a passionate and entrepreneurial culture encompassing a diverse, elastic set of skills, Anomaly has offices in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, London, Amsterdam and Shanghai. Clients include: Anheuser-Busch InBev, Beats, The Campbell’s Soup Company, Converse, Diageo, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Diesel, Google, Hershey’s, Kohl’s, New York Life, Panera Bread, Sally Hansen, Sonos, The Coca-Cola Company and YouTube. Anomaly has been recognized for a very wide range of work and IP, covering both effectiveness and craft excellence including: Ad Age’s 2017 Agency of the Year, Cannes Lions, Effies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Jay Chiat, Digiday Awards and the Mashies—among the usual suspects. Anomaly has also been honored with a few less conventional accolades as well, such as being named one of Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2016 for hmbldt, Toy of The Year for Mighty Jaxx, plus two Emmys for a television series, all of which the agency created and co-owns.
VP of Commercial Technology and Development
The Washington Post
Jarrod Dicker is the Vice President of commercial technology and development at The Washington Post and founder of RED, The Post’s proprietary research experimentation and development group. Dicker’s team includes the emerging technology, business strategy, commercial product & commercial development groups tasked with driving the strategy and evolving all elements of The Post’s business.
Before joining The Washington Post, Dicker was founding CEO of Po.et, a decentralized media protocol. Prior to Po.et, Dicker was an executive and held leadership roles at RebelMouse, Time Inc. and The Huffington post.
He sits on the Board of Advisors for Rutgers University School of Innovation, Vault12 and Mogul Inc., a technology platform that enables women worldwide to share ideas and access content based on personal interests.
Director of Marketing
KFC Global
George Felix is an award-winning, classically trained marketer with a distinct strength in advertising and brand building. He is currently director of marketing for KFC Global where he is responsible for the brand communications strategy and positioning for KFC, a $25 billion brand that spans across 140 countries. Prior to this role, Felix spent three years as director of brand Communications for KFC US leading all national TV and radio advertising, digital/social advertising, product packaging, in-restaurant point of purchase merchandising and menu board design.
In April of 2018, Felix was named Ad Age’s Brand Marketer of the Year and KFC’s “The Return of Colonel Sanders” campaign was named Ad Age’s Campaign of the Year. Since taking over brand communications for KFC US in 2015, the brand grew behind the advertising campaign marking the return of Colonel Sanders, recording four consecutive years of same store sales growth and was awarded four Cannes Lions and one Effie. George was previously named on Ad Age’s 2016 40 Under 40 list identifying the bright young minds who are reinventing and reshaping marketing’s future and KFC was named on Ad Age’s 2016 Marketer A-List as one of the top 10 Marketers of the year.
Prior to joining KFC, Felix worked in brand management at Procter & Gamble for six years. In that time, he worked on the Old Spice brand where he led advertising campaigns that won 10 Cannes Lions, 2 Effies and the Emmy for Best Commercial. After his time at Old Spice, he led mobile marketing strategy and innovation for P&G. George holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.
George and his wife of 14 years, Mary, live in Dallas, TX with their 2 children, Eleanor (9) and Wilson (6).
Co-Founder & CEO
TwentyFirstCenturyBrand
Jonathan Mildenhall has recently launched his own brand consultancy called TwentyFirstCenturyBrand. Based in San Francisco, TwentyFirstCenturyBrand counts industry leaders like Sean Parker and Arianna Huffington as founding clients alongside Pinterest, WeWork, Harklinikken, Airtime, GoDaddy, Peloton, Uber, UberEats, TurboTax, College Track and Nextdoor. Mildenhall specializes in helping founders and CEOs realize the potential of their company brand and the financial value that purpose-driven marketing can help create. In 2014 he joined Airbnb as CMO when Airbnb had just broken into that $1 billion unicorn status, with the mission to transform the industry-disrupting property rental platform into the next global iconic super brand. In four years, the Airbnb brand has won countless awards, now defines popular culture and is valued at over $35 billion. In 2006 Jonathan became VP of global advertising strategy and creative at the Coca-Cola Company after a career running successful ad agencies. He led the team that launched CocaCola’s global marketing platform “Open Happiness,” which became their most profitable and awarded marketing platform ever
