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Feb 28, 2019 • 1h 2min

Alicia Tillman

Alicia Tillman is Chief Marketing Officer of SAP. In 2018 she was named among the 50 Most Influential CMOs in the World by Forbes. She has been covered by U.S. News & World Report, CNBC, Forbes, CMO.com and AdWeek. She has become a highly sought-after public speaker at marketing conferences around the globe. Prior to SAP, Alicia spent 11 years as a VP at American Express, working across public affairs, comms, marketing and business services. She joined SAP in 2015, first as the CMO for SAP Ariba, the world's largest business-to-business marketplace. In 2017 she assumed her more wide-ranging role as CMO of SAP, the global leader in enterprise software, and the world’s third largest independent software manufacturer.
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Jan 28, 2019 • 1h 1min

Cindy Gallop

Cindy Gallop is a former advertising exec turned entrepreneur, public speaker and change-maker. In 1998 she founded the US branch of BBH, serving as Chairman and President for 7 years. In 2003 she was named Advertising Woman of the Year. Today she is the Founder and CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn, IfWeRanTheWorld, and AllTheSky Holdings. Business Insider named her one of their "15 Most Important Marketing Strategy Thinkers Today," number 33 on their list of "100 Most Influential Tech Women on Twitter," and number one on their list of "Top 30 People In Advertising To Follow On Twitter." Campaign named her number one on their list of "Top 10 Trailblazers." In 2015 she was Jury President at Cannes for the inaugural Glass Lion Awards, celebrating advertising that shatters gender stereotypes. She has been covered by publications including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, TechCrunch, TeenVogue, and The Guardian. She is a leading voice for equal rights and equal opportunity in the ad industry.
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Nov 12, 2018 • 1h 21min

Season Finale: David Droga

David Droga, founder of Droga5, talks about the importance of siblings, financial privilege, and becoming an ECD at 22. He reflects on the history and success of Droga5, his involvement and approach to work, the challenges of scaling impact, nurturing young creatives, and the power of the Colin Kaepernick ad. He also discusses building relationships and a missed opportunity at the Beijing Olympics.
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Oct 23, 2018 • 59min

Justin Gignac

Justin Gignac is co-founder of Working Not Working, the preeminent networking site where freelance creatives and companies go to connect. It has become an essential and transformative tool for thousands in the freelance community. Hundreds of companies now use Working Not Working to source talent, including Apple, Google, Droga5, Wieden+Kennedy, Airbnb, Kickstarter, IDEO, The New York Times, and Momentum.Prior to starting Working Not Working, Justin was an award-winning Art Director best known for helping create the legendary "Elf Yourself," unleashing the world's elf fetish, with over 1.5 billion elves created since 2006. He also gained notoriety for his various art projects, including "NYC Garbage." He's been named to the Creativity 50, and featured in publications including AdAge, Time and Fast Company.
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Oct 9, 2018 • 1h 19min

Jeff Kling

Jeff Kling was Chief Creative Officer of Fallon until May of 2018, when he resigned his post. Jeff joined Fallon in 2012, where he led successful campaigns like "Get Your Taxes Won" for H&R Block starring John Hamm, and Arby's "We Have The Meats." Prior to Fallon, Jeff was ECD at Euro RSCG (now Havas), where he created the now mythic "Most Interesting Man Alive" campaign for Dos Equis. From 1996 to 2003 Jeff worked at Wieden+Kennedy, where he authored the famed Miller High Life campaign shot by Errol Morris. He later returned to Wieden as ECD of Amsterdam, where he helped create Nike "Write the Future." Jeff has received every major industry award. He was named "Copywriter of the Year" three times by the AICP. Last year, Forbes featured him in a piece titled "14 Creative Directors You Should Have on Your Speed Dial."
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Sep 25, 2018 • 1h 8min

John Mescall

John Mescall is Global ECD at McCann Worldgroup, and President of the McCann Worldgroup Creative Leadership Council. In this dual role, John provides creative leadership across the agency's global brands, while also partnering closely with the network’s creative and strategic leads around the world.Prior to that, John was Chief Creative Officer of McCann Australia, leading McCann Melbourne to become the world’s most awarded agency in 2013, thanks in large part to his legendary brainchild, "Dumb Ways To Die." It won 5 Grand Prix awards and 23 Lions, making it the most successful campaign in the history of Cannes, and one of the most famous marketing efforts of the 21st century. To date, the video has been viewing 170 million times on YouTube.Since his move to Global ECD in 2014, John has helped lead McCann Worldgroup’s creative resurgence, with honors including Gunn Report Agency of the Year, D&AD Agency of the Year, and Network of the Year accolades from the One Club, ANDYs, Effies and more.He’s been named to the Creativity 50. And Business Insider ranked him the 8th most creative person in all of advertising.
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Sep 12, 2018 • 1h 2min

Greg Hahn

Greg Hahn is Chief Creative Officer of BBDO New York. Over the past year, Greg has helped lead BBDO to one of its most successful years ever, including a clean sweep of 'Network of the Year' honors across Cannes, D&AD, ADC and One Show. Greg joined BBDO as an ECD in 2005 and became CCO in 2013, leading some of the industry’s most ground-breaking work for brands like HBO, FedEx and AT&T. He did the award winning “HBO Voyeur,” which, was selected by the One Club as one of the “Best of the Digital Decade.” He also helmed the wildly successful “HBO Imagine” project, and the industry-changing "BMW Films." Prior to joining BBDO, Greg worked at Fallon Minneapolis, where he first connected with David Lubars to create many famous works, including the "Buddy Lee" campaign for Lee Jeans. Recently, Greg was named one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business,” by Fast Company, and he currently serves on the Creative Advisory Board for Snapchat.
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Aug 25, 2018 • 1h 17min

Alex Bogusky

Alex Bogusky is Co-Founder and Chief Creative Engineer of Crispin Porter+Bogusky. Alex lead the legendary ascension of CP+B to become the world's most famous and awarded agency over more than a decade, and the first ever to win the Cannes Grand Prix in all five categories. The agency grew to over a thousand employees, with offices in Miami, Boulder, Los Angeles, London and Sweden, and with annual billings over $1 billion. Alex has been called the Steve Jobs of advertising. In 2008, he was inducted into the Art Director's Club Hall of Fame. In 2010, he received the rare honor of being named "Creative Director of the Decade" by Adweek. It was later that same year that Alex left CP+B, shifting his focus to consumer advocacy and social initiatives, while investing in early stage start-ups. Then, in August of 2018, some eight years after he departed CP+B, Alex shocked the advertising world by announcing his return.
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Aug 13, 2018 • 1h

Chris Beresford-Hill

Chief Creative Officer of TBWA\Chiat\Day New York, Chris Beresford-Hill, discusses his career, working with athletes on commercials, transitioning to a new agency, the importance of listening and improvising, a favorite failure from working with Napster, and the importance of difficult experiences for creative growth.
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Jul 24, 2018 • 1h 4min

Susan Hoffman

Susan Hoffman is Co-Chief Creative Officer of Wieden Kennedy. Susan joined W+K in the mid-eighties as employee number eight. Thirty years later, she has helped shape the most respected and revered creative agency in the industry, and in turn, the very industry itself. Aside from creative directing some of the most famous work of all time for clients like Nike, Old Spice, Chrysler and Miller High Life, Susan also opened the Wieden offices in Amsterdam and London, serving both as ECD. Along the way she’s introduced the world to directors like David Fincher and Michael Bay, and helped launch the careers of many of the most successful creative directors in the industry today. Her decades of rarified creative excellence culminated in 2017 with her induction into the One Club Hall of Fame.

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