The bio section of the website.
Creative Director with 20+ years building award-winning and noteworthy work for brands like Microsoft, Jeep, Groupon, Hotels.com, Coors Banquet, Peloton and Food Network.
I've led work for all kinds of brands and agencies — from national campaigns to a single billboard assignment that grew into an international campaign. At Highdive, I led creative for Airheads Candy, producing culturally-driven activations and press-worthy stunts: Chicken Sandy (a candy-branded entry into the chicken sandwich wars), a candy-scented foot spray that landed on The Drew Barrymore Show, a pop-up shop that accepted play money as commentary on inflation, and a rainbow-wrapped Jeep for Pride. Before that, I worked on beer brands at Mekanism, Groupon's first Super Bowl spot at OKRP, and Hotels.com's Captain Obvious campaign at CP+B.
I'm currently a Creative Director at Havas Chicago, where I helped lead the creative behind The Steemer for Stanley Steemer.
What ties it all together: a belief that the best work happens when a team is actually having fun making it.
Some other things: I read constantly (sci-fi/fantasy, non-fiction, history), love comics, am a fitness geek, have two cats named Gus and Al, a wife who works in finance and paints better than most artists I know, and I could fill a storage unit with Arsenal kits.
A list of agencies I've worked for and with and at.
HAVAS (PRESENT)/Creative Director
Highdive
Creative Director
Mekanism
Associate Creative Director
OKRP
Creative Director
Victor’s and Spoils
Associate Creative Director
Barkley
Associate Creative Director
Sr. Writer
Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Writer
Barkley
Writer
VML
Writer
Two West
Writer
Meers
Jr. Writer
Footlocker
Sold shoes and chased down shoe thieves
Village Inn
Flipped Pancakes