Over 70 years of winning memories to inspire the next generation.

Jolene Delisle

The Working Assembly Founder

Jolene Delisle is the Founder of the branding and creative agency The Working Assembly based in NYC. Clients include Amazon, Pepsi, Klarna, Match Group and MassMutual. Her work has been recognized by The Type Directors Club, Print, D&AD, Dieline, The One Show, and Fast Company. She has been named to the Forbes Next 1000 entrepreneur list and Adweek's Creative 100 honoring the most innovative and inspiring individuals. Jolene is passionate about bridging the gender and diversity gap in creativity and tech, funding and advising women and founders of color. In 2022, Jolene became the owner of a 1950's ice cream shop in Stone Ridge, New York, called Cherries.

Thomas Kurppa

Kurppa Hosk Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer

Thomas Kurppa is co-founder and the Chief Creative Officer of Kurppa Hosk. He began his career as a producer of electronic music in the early 90’s. He started a number of small labels where he produced underground music and designed album covers. Thomas received his professional training at Forsberg School of Design in Stockholm in the mid 90’s. In the late 90’s he moved to London to work at Wallpaper* Magazine as a designer. Returning to Sweden, he joined Stockholm Design Lab as a Senior Designer 2002. In 2009, he co-founded Kurppa Hosk. Thomas has won numerous awards, including Merit Awards, a Distinction Award from the Art Directors Club in New York, the Tokyo TDC and the Swedish Golden Egg Award.

Leo Porto

Porto Rocha Founder & Creative Director

Leo Porto is a New-York-based Brazilian designer and co-founder of design agency PORTO ROCHA. Prior to starting PORTO ROCHA, Leo was Design Director at COLLINS. Throughout his career, Leo has worked at a range of renowned studios including Pentagram, Mother, and Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv. Widely recognized by a number of major design awards and publications such as The One Club, Print Magazine and The Type Directors Club, Leo was also named a “Young Gun'' by The Art Directors Club. With a focus on branding and design systems, Leo's work maintains a global presence through his designs for some of the world's largest brands including Target, Nike and Twitch.

Alisa Wolfson

Leo Burnett Chicago EVP, Head of Design

Alisa Wolfson is the EVP Head of Design at Leo Burnett, Chicago. As a leader in the agency’s U.S. visual design practice, Alisa oversees brand development for some of the world’s most recognized brands and many of the agency’s cultural and socially conscious clients. Her career at Burnett began in 2009, when she built the agency’s Department of Design—a team that is comprised of design thinkers and visual brand specialists. In 2020, she was a founding member of the Leo Burnett Global Design Council and continues to engage design conversation worldwide. Her work has been continuously recognized by notable industry awards and publications. She has received the inaugural D&AD White Pencil, a One Club Design for Good Gold and Best in Show at The One Show Design. Alisa has been named AdAge’s Woman to Watch and is in Chicago New City Design’s Hall of Fame. She is an active part of the Chicago design and cultural scene. She is the President Emeritus of the AIGA Chicago and has served on many civic, business and arts based advisory boards including most recently The Arts Alliance of Illinois. She is also a mentor, volunteer, lecturer, and mom. Alisa is an advocate for collaboration and creative excellence within Leo Burnett and the community, championing design as the best method for transforming products, services, processes, strategy, and culture.

Forest Young

Rivian Global Head of Brand

Forest Young is responsible for the evolution and expression of the Rivian brand across its people, products and services. His team is focused on continually refining the components of brand design, content creation, brand experience, and digital design delivery across both consumer and commercial spaces. Prior to Rivian, Forest was the first Chief Creative Officer at Wolff Olins — which was named Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company for Design during his tenure. There, he led initiatives for the world’s most influential companies and cultural institutions, based in New York City.Prior to joining Wolff Olins, Forest was the Executive Creative Director at West Ventures, leading design across a portfolio of early stage companies. Forest is a Senior Critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art, where he is also a distinguished MFA alumnus, and recipient of the Mark Whistler Prize. He is a founding advisor for MillerKnoll's Diversity in Design collaborative, and recently served on the National Board of Directors for the AIGA. Forest was invited to join Fast Company's inaugural Impact Council and his work has been exhibited at MoMA, the ROM, the Royal College of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and at numerous international biennials.He has received the industry's highest design accolades including the Gold Design Lion at Cannes and the Art Directors Club Black Cube. His passion lies at the intersection of storytelling, universal design and futurism. He was invited by the California College of the Arts to teach the first MFA course in Future Design. Forest has delivered keynote lectures on behalf of 99U, SXSW, Adobe MAX, Ico-D, Typographics, SF Design Week and DesignThinkers. Forest holds a BS in Human Development from Cornell University.

Jordan Atlas

Edelman Chief Creative Officer

As Edelman's US Chief Creative Officer, Jordan leads an award-winning creative community of over 150 awesome humans. Starting as the agency’s first LA-based creative in 2014, Jordan has led award-winning ideas such as the Taco Bell Hotel and the Sports Illustrated Swim’s Pay With Change which was the world’s first media buy based on progress over profit. Most recently, his teams won a Gold Lion at Cannes for Vaseline See My Skin, resulting in Edelman being named Independent Agency of the Year, Lion For Good. Since taking over the role of CCO, Edelman US has been named 2023 Contagious Pioneers’ Best and Bravest, The One Show’s #5 Independent Agency Network, and #21 on The Drum's Top 100 US Creative Agencies of 2023. Always a driver in action-based ideas that earn their way into culture, Jordan believes in leading with equal parts creativity, optimism, ambition, and humanity. Prior to joining Edelman, Jordan held Creative Director positions at Digitas and Y&R. His work has earned recognition from Cannes, D&AD, PR Week Purpose, Clios, Effies, Chiats, Shorty’s and the Webbys. He has participated in numerous industry juries, including the One Club’s Next Creative Leaders Jury. He’s been celebrated by the LA Business Journal as one of 2019’s Most Influential Marketers in Southern California and was recognized in 2022 as part of Adweek’s Creative 100: Most Innovative and Inspiring Individuals.

Abe Baginsky

JOAN Executive Creative Director

Abe has nearly 20 years of experience in advertising, across both London and New York. He's worked at many of the world’s top agencies; including Mother, 72andSunny, Ogilvy and Publicis. Abe's work has been consistently recognized by all of the major awards: including Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show, The Webby’s and The Clio Awards.

Alice Blastorah

Special Group Creative Director

Alice Blastorah is Creative Director at Special Group LA/NY shaping stylistically breakthrough work with her deep love for craft and art direction. With a career spanning Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles, Alice has consistently created award-winning work from grassroots charitable initiatives to the world’s largest automakers and everything in between. Her campaigns have been recognized in every major award show and has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Fast Company, The Guardian and Mashable amongst many others. Some of her notable clients include UberEats, Roblox, Volkswagen, Toyota and the global Olympics and Paralympics.

Kasia Canning

Maximum Effort VP Creative Director

Kasia Canning is a VP CD at Maximum Effort. Previously she was Executive Creative Director at BBH USA in New York. As a GCD at BBH, she was honored as the Most Awarded GCD Globally at the 2022 One Show. She has also led teams at 72andSunny, Barton F. Graf and Johannes Leonardo. Her work on Google Black-owned Friday was highly awarded in Cannes, recognized for the Fusion Pencil and Best of Integrated at the One Show and earned a Grand Clio. Previously, her work in Amsterdam on ING's The Next Rembrandt won two Cannes Grand Prix and was featured everywhere from Wired magazine to Bill Nye Saves the World on Netflix. Kasia has spoken on panels for AICP Bootcamp, been a mentor for the Cannes Lions initiative See It Be It and the Manhattan Early College for Advertising, and judged international awards shows including the One Show, AICP, and Radio Mercury. She has served on the advisory board of the Creative Circus, taught advertising at Miami Ad School in New York and been a finalist for AdAge Creative of the Year.

Rolando Cordova

L&C NYC Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer

Rolando Cordova spent the last 17 years of his career as a creative director of some of the most prestigious advertising agencies in the world including McCann New York, Havas New York, Fred & Farid Paris, BSUR Amsterdam, Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam and Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore. Creating award-winning campaigns for iconic brands like Mini/BMW, American Express, Chevrolet, Orangina, P&G and Coca Cola. Born in Lima-Peru, he is considered one of the most influential Peruvian creatives. Together with his longtime creative partner Gian Carlo, he founded L&C, a House of Ideas, in early 2020 with offices in New York City and Lima. He uses his unique global experience to create provocative campaigns that transcend cultural barriers for brands like Dole Packaged Foods, GE, Thumbtack, Diageo, AB InBev, etc. L&C has been recognized as #1 independent agency of the year 2022 by the One Show, Best new agency of the year 2022 by the Andy’s awards and Boutique agency of the year by The Art Directors Club. Also, the agency won a Creative Business Transformation Grand Prix at Cannes Lions and two yellow and a white pencil at D&AD. Rolo, as everyone calls him, published his first book in 2016 “Por si alguien te dice que no” a manual to help emerging LATAM talent to turn their limitations into creative fuel. He also served as jury and speaker in multiple advertising festivals including Clio Awards, The One Show, Art Directors Club, New York Festivals, Eurobest, El Dorado Festival and El Ojo de Iberoamerica.

Jason LaFlore

72andSunny Creative Director

A proud St. Louis, MO native, Jason’s career path was not always certain. Having left his job as a grocery store manager, he decided to step out and take a chance on advertising. Thankfully that turned out to be the right decision as it has led to a career full of creatively challenging yet fun workdays, two Super Bowl campaigns and an unanticipated haul of award-winning work. Now, after 10+ years of experience working on global brands such as Coca-Cola, Cadillac, and the NFL to name a few, the hunger to make groundbreaking work is still there. As a creative director at 72andSunny, Jason hopes to continue the forward momentum and continue to make impactful and entertaining work for the world to not only see but to interact with.

Hira Mohibullah

VMLY&R Executive Creative Director

Named as one of Ad Age’s 40 under 40, #21 Most Awarded Creative Director by The Drum World Creative Rankings 2020 and Campaign Asia’s Women to Watch 2021, Hira Mohibullah currently works at VMLY&R Kansas City as Executive Creative Director. As a creative, she prides herself upon creating campaigns that have impacted social change and moved culture with minimal or no media spending, winning her more than 215 International Advertising Awards including Cannes Lions, Clios, D&AD and more. Her most notable campaigns are UNWomen's #BridalUniform (#56 on WARC100) and #BeatMe (Gunn Top 100 Campaigns of 2017). In her time at BBDO Pakistan, Hira’s leadership was instrumental in elevating the agency’s reputation into worldwide circles, placing BBDO Pakistan at #1 in South-Asia: Cannes Lions Global Creativity Report, #3 in APAC: WARC Creative100, and #20 Globally: The Drum World Creative Rankings 2020. With a career spanning 12 years, Hira has also worked at leading agencies like, Ogilvy and Leo Burnett and while she brings a unique 10-year beverage experience on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, her expertise also extends to creating effective work for notable brands like Unilever, Frito-Lay, Nando’s and Friesland Campina. Hira is a Cannes Lions See It Be It Alumni, Campaign Asia’s Women Leading Change Honoree, Creative LIAisons Mentor, TEDx speaker and has served on some of the most prestigious juries in the world such as Cannes Lions, D&AD, Clio, Ad Age, Gerety, NYF, Young Guns and ADSTARS.

Avi Pinchevsky

David & Goliath Executive Creative Director

Avi is a proven creative leader who loves the work as much as she loves the people. Global in every sense, she believes in work that transcends language and that creativity is a behavior changer and business driver. She’s been lucky to learn from, partner with and mentor some of the best minds and kindest hearts in the industry and she’s learned that craft is truly the difference between 'ok' and 'wow'. Avi loves to play with technology, tell stories, build teams, solve problems, build brands, fix broken things and forge strong relationships along the way. She’s had the pleasure of changing the hearts and minds of America about its biggest retailer, turning protest art into voting booths and bringing separated loved ones together through haptic technology that allowed them to hug remotely. Most recently she helped cats find forever homes on a gaming platform, de-stigmatized bladder leaks and showcased the capability of an incredibly innovative vehicle. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two kids and cats.

Danny Robinson

The Martin Agency Chief Creative Officer

Danny Robinson’s career is a testament to outside-the-box thinking. After all, it’s not common to find a chief creative officer with experience in account leadership and a master’s in business. But Danny’s blend of creative and business acumen leads to a big-picture perspective that results in breakthrough ideas. Danny has brought this approach to The Martin Agency, where he’s overseen work leading to back-to-back Adweek Agency of the Year wins in 2000 and 2001, a spot-on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list in 2023, and most recently, Ad Age Agency of the Year in 2023. Danny is a Hampton Institute undergrad and received his MBA from Atlanta University. He started as an assistant product manager at General Foods before becoming associate creative director at The Guild Group. He then cofounded Vigilante, an agency focused on leveraging pop culture, where he worked on campaigns for Heineken, Johnnie Walker, Sprint and Snapple. (Remember that time Oprah gave away Pontiacs to everyone in her audience? That was Vigilante.) Subsequently, Danny served as a creative director and group creative director at Martin before becoming chief client officer — the first Black person named to Martin’s executive committee—where he oversees brands including GEICO, OREO, DoorDash, UPS, and Old Navy. Additionally, Danny is the first Black chief creative officer in Martin’s history and one of the few Black male CCOs at a non-Black-owned agency. In the past two years, Danny was named Campaign US Agency Head of the Year; Ad Age’s Chief Creative Officer of the Year; honored on the Adweek 50, Campaign US 40 Over 40, and The Internationalist’s Agency Innovators lists. Danny has served as a D&AD, One Show, Super Clio, Clio, Andy, Webby and London International Award juror. An accomplished artist, pop culture aficionado (including being one of the biggest Prince fans on the planet), former DJ and was even once voted by the Stand Up NY Comedy Club as “one of the funniest men in advertising.” He serves on the board of directors for The One Club and Donate Life America and serves on Virginia Commonwealth University’s Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture’s advisory board. He is also involved with the nonprofits Art 180, Oakwood Arts and Project Come Up.

Ryan Stotts

Mischief Creative Director

Ryan Stotts is a Chicago based Creative Director at Mischief. He’s done one-of-a-kind work for brands big and small, from beer to foam shoes. Whatever it may be, his goal is finding unexpected solutions to help brands stand out. Whether it’s lawyering-up 8 year old entrepreneurs, going deep with existential chickens or getting weird on advertising’s biggest night. His work has been awarded by Cannes Lions, The One Show, D&AD, Clios, ADC, Andys, and his kids.

Juan Pabo Álvarez

WILD FI Chief Creative Officer

Juan Pablo Álvarez began his career in Chile, working at Young & Rubicam and Lowe. In 2009 he joined Ogilvy where he remained for 3 years before moving to Ogilvy Colombia as Head of Art and Regional Creative Director for Coca-Cola Latin Center Business Unit. In 2013 he was appointed Executive Creative Director at the same agency. In 2014, together with other Ogilvy executives, he founded REDNET, an Ogilvy organization that created a centralized, creative and coordinated service for The Coca-Cola Company in 32 countries across LATAM. In 2017 he became Creative Vice-president and Chief Creative Officer at Ogilvy Colombia, and in 2021, he added the creative responsibility of the Ogilvy Andean cluster. During his career, JuanPa has accumulated more than 400 awards in creativity and effectiveness. Among them: Cannes Lions, Clio, D&AD, One Show, LIA, El Sol, FIAP, New York Festival, Effie and Ojo de Iberoamerica. During his ten years in Colombia, his agency was named agency of the year by "El Sol", Best Colombian Agency for six years in "El Ojo de Iberoamerica" and top#5 in "Crema", the most important ranking at regional level, for five years in a row. And became the most creative awarded agency of the country, to this day. In 2015, 2016 and 2018, he received the award for “Best Creative Director” in Colombia from “El Ojo” and was named the #4 Best Creative in Latam. In 2018, he was awarded with the GRAND PRIX in Product Design at Cannes Lions and in 2019 he was invited to be juror at the same festival. During 2019, Ogilvy Colombia was recognized as the best agency in Latin America at "The One Show" and "Clio Awards", also receiving a GRAND CLIO. Ranked top 3 in creativity among the 500 offices in the Ogilvy Network and ranked as the #34th agency of the world according to WARC. During 2020 he was named the 3rd Best Creative of Latam by “El Ojo” and in 2021 he received the honor of being the #1 Best Creative in Latam by “The One Club for Creativity” and reached the #6 position in the Ogilvy global ranking. Also, in 2021 he was appointed Latam Regional Leader for the Advertising, Brand & Content pillar, having as responsibility the network's growth in that business. In 2022, after 14 years, he left Ogilvy and partnered with WILD FI, an independent creative performance driven agency network in latam. During 2023, he was ranked as #8 best creative in the region by The One Club for Creativity.

Marina Erthal

Talent Marcel Creative Director

Hi! I'm Marina Erthal, Creative Director at Talent Marcel. The path I followed in my career until today was atypical. And that made everything interesting and fun. First, I joined an important ad agency in Brazil just because I won "The Apprentice" years ago. Yes! The award was a position at VMLY&R, and I subscribed for that reason. I was born in a small city in the countryside, so I moved to Sao Paulo and went from an apprentice to a copywriter, working there for 11 years. After that, I went to Soko as a Creative Director, R/GA as comms international leader and CD and now I'm at Talent. Besides that professional side of me, I'm a wine, series and book lover, ceramic painter and beach tennis beginner (I was always terrible on sports and now I found one that is democratic and doesn't makes me feel so bad! try if you are like me! it's easy!) Well this is me. Nice to meet you!

Maria Lee

Droga5 Creative Director

Maria Lee is a world-recognized creative leader who combines her passion for design, technology, and storytelling to put brands at the center of culture. She’s been named “Creative Director of the Year” by AdAge A-List, “Champion of Change” by Campaign US Awards, and “Rising Star of Madison Avenue” by Business Insider. Earlier in her career, she was recognized twice as “USA Young Lion” by Cannes Festival of Creativity. She has spent over a decade pushing boundaries of traditional and non-traditional media on both agency and brand side. Her work has been recognized by Fast Company, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, WARC, and Ad Council to name a few. She is currently at Droga5 New York.

Jason McCann

GALE Executive Creative Director

Jason is an executive creative director at business agency GALE where he oversees clients including Chipotle, Hard Rock, Pella, Cotopaxi and more. Prior to GALE, Jason was ECD in AKQA’s New York and London offices with clients like Nike, Mini, Google and Verizon. A frequent speaker, writer he has lectured at The Rotman School of business and The Imperial College Business School in London. His work has earned global recognition at Cannes Lions, The One Show, and D&AD. He paid his way through university as a professional juggler. (no joke)