David’s son Cameron better known as Cam has led international creative shops including Droga5 New York and Sydney, Publicis London, AMV BBDO, Grey, BMF; for the last four years he’s filled the Chief Creative Officer’s chair at M&C Saatchi Australia. Cam has been awarded hundreds of times at international awards including a coveted D&AD Black Pencil for The New York Department of Education, D&AD Yellow Pencils and Cannes Lions for CUB and Cadbury, two Grand Clios and two Gold Clios...

Julian Cole is a strategy consultant to global brands including Apple, Facebook, Disney, Snap and Uber. Previously he held the role of Head of Comms Planning at BBDO and BBH in New York. Julian has helped create award winning work for PlayStation, Bacardi, Pepsi, Google and Coca-Cola. With a void of practical information online, in 2017 he started the Planning Dirty newsletter to share the best tools and resources growing to over 30,000 subscribers. Julian has an undeniable passion to create...

Cindy Gallop likes to blow shit up. She is a brand and business innovator, consultant, coach and keynote speaker available to work with anybody who wants to change the game in their particular sector. People go to Cindy for radical, innovative, groundbreaking, transformation - Cindy does not do status quo! She can help you own the future as the leader you want to be, the business you want to be, the gender-equal, diverse, inclusive workplace you want to be. We could at this point go into...

Ben is one of the region's top creative leaders, known for his inclusive leadership style and strategic rigour. Over the years he and his departments have won numerous Australian and international creative and effectiveness awards. In 2015, Ben was voted Campaign Asia’s Best Creative Talent for Australia and NZ. His inspiration is the reader, the viewer, the listener and the clicker; our raison d’etre, who for the most part, is bored, insulted and uninspired by what our industry produces....

Anais is a Kiwi-turned-Aussie copywriter who’s changing behaviour for the better. In just her sixth year in the industry, Anais has created ideas for Cadbury, Subway, WNBL, Isuzu, Suncorp, and various Government clients. She won the B&T 30 Under 30 Grand Prix and Creative categories in 2021, adding to her growing list of international and local industry awards. But these only keep imposter syndrome at bay for so long. It’s the meaningful stuff that really stamps it out. Anais’ proudest...

Over the course of his career, Andre G Gray has made integrated campaigns for varied categories, from deodorant to Ultraboosts, leading global campaigns for brands like adidas, Gatorade and Nissan. Mr. Gray is the author of Digital Anthropomorphism: Humanizing the Brand, a staunch advocate for underrepresented voices and lives to add to the cultural conversation. His POV is that of a Black/Jewish polyglot who grew up going to French school in San Francisco, lived the last 3 years in Amsterdam...

Multimedia artist Graham Fink is one of the world’s most respected, and highly awarded, creatives. Fink works in the fields of film, photography, painting, illustration and technology. Graham Fink’s career has been defined by never being satisfied with the status quo, whether that’s in the world of art or advertising. Fink loves to explore the ideas of the subconscious and creativity across multiple platforms including video, installation, photography, and painting. He wants to understand the...

Matt joined McCann Health as Global Chief Creative Officer in January of 2019. Formerly Worldwide Chief Creative Officer of J. Walter Thompson where he led the agency to win a total of 80 Lions, more than it had ever won in its 150-year history. Matt was described by Britain’s Campaign magazine as a “unicorn” in the communications industry. Matt has won numerous accolades and honors including Campaign Brief Agency of the Year, Clio Health Network of the Year, Australian Creative Hotshop,...

The Aunties is the brainchild of Phoebe Sloane, Creative at Special and brought to life by the eleven women of the Melbourne Advertising and Design Club (MADC) committee. The Aunties is a program that aims to inspire, protect, connect and champion women of all ages and backgrounds across Melbourne’s creative industries, through tailored mentorships, seminars and networking opportunities. The Aunties is for industry women at all stages of their careers and lives. Offering mentorships to women...

Rachel is a brilliant creative, just not in the way you might think. But she is most definitely something we’ve all thought about from time to time, ex-advertising. Prior to a long and rich career in production and creative services in such esteemed doorways as Droga 5, McCann and Leo Burnett, Rachel took a pause and quit. Since 2020 she has been a Certified Life & Mindset Coach. Imposter Syndrome Specialist. Rachel is on a quest to help people in media and corporate who want to overcome...

Paul has spent many years working in advertising in the UK, Australia and New Zealand including ECD roles at some of these country’s largest advertising networks. Paul co-founded his own agency, Barnes, Catmur & Friends Dentsu and while working he often writes articles for the business press as well as car and fishing magazines. Paul now lives on the beach outside Auckland where he concentrates on writing a column in the NZ Herald along with a couple of books. A prolific writer with many...

Prior to moving to Spain t0 join 14 as CCO, Toby (not Tony) held the role of CCO at Saatchi & Saatchi NZ for three years. Before that he was CCO at DDB Sydney, and was behind the most awarded mobile campaign in the world #comeonin for Sydney Opera House, and before then at DDB New Zealand, where he took home the coveted title of Campaign Asia Magazine’s Creative of the Year. Toby is currently the No.2 ECD in the world on the global bestadsontv Creative Rankings over the last 18 years. As...

A promising career in fashion design was cut short when Vicki discovered she couldn’t draw. Encouraged by her mentor Paul Smith to write her ideas down instead, Vicki soon found her way into the world of advertising. Vicki joined Grey London in 2009, creating campaigns for clients including British Heart Foundation, Lucozade and Marks & Spencer. She is now Chief Creative Officer at Havas London. Vicki is also a vocal champion of diversity and helped establish the Creative Circle...

In 2008 Josy Paul started BBDO India from the backseat of his car. In 2016, he was named Creative Agency Head of The Year by the Indian Advertising Association. Josy is among the most influential people in Indian advertising - according to The Economic Times. Campaign Magazine awarded him Creative Person of the Year for India and South Asia multiple times. Josy and his team won the inaugural Glass Lion Grand Prix at Cannes in 2015 for Whisper’s ‘Touch The Pickle’. They also won the Cannes...

Daniel Lobatón helped create the highly-awarded “It’s a Tide Ad” campaign, currently ranked #1 on WARC’s Effective 100. Now we could stop there with his introduction but that would seem a bit sucky, so...Daniel became CCO at Saatchi & Saatchi in March of 2020 after three years as Executive Creative Director at the agency, overseeing work on Tide. Since joining the agency in 2017, Daniel has been part of developing breakthrough work for brands like Tide, Goldfish, TikTok, Olay, the...

Shannon Crowe exited from full time agency life on 4th January 2016. Not so coincidentally, her son was born the very next morning. It was a unique set of circumstances that saw Shannon take a step back and in doing so her perspective has widened. Her days are now spent amongst the people we try so hard to reach. So after years of overtime, Shannon’s work-life balance was skewed very much in the opposite direction. Shannon believes this made her ideas stronger. In fact, 2016 saw Shannon named...

Jo Sellars and Grant Rutherford worked together when they were at Publicis. It’s a time they speak fondly of, we think. Jo talks about her favourite piece of work being Grant’s Barry Dawson campaign for Cougar Bourbon and Grant sums up his respect for Jo by saying ‘Even her bad ideas are better than my good ones.’ But platitudes aside, let’s get into their insecurities and fear of being found out. Jo Sellars started her career in Mojo Brisbane working with advertising heroes Mo and Jo. Over...

Merlee Jayme, Chief Creative Officer at dentsu international APAC may have been silent in the past but it’s her beliefs and achievements that now demand to be heard. Known for work that pushes Insights and innovation, Merlee has won major awards that include a Cannes Lion Grand Prix for Mobile, Gold and Silver lions for outdoor, Grand CLIO, LIAA, The One Show, D&AD pencils and Campaign's Creative of the Year. Merlee is Cannes Lions Radio & Audio Jury President 2021, ADC 100th Annual...

Episode 8 - Joakim Borgstrom (Jab) has a secret weapon that helps him see the world differently. Jab is the Worldwide Chief Creative officer of the black sheep at BBH. Prior to this, Jab held a number of leadership roles, including Creative Director/Director of Innovation at Goodby Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, Creative Director at Wieden+Kennedy, Amsterdam, Creative Director and Partner at DoubleYou, Barcelona. Jab is a rare mix of Swedish and Argentinean, speaks five languages...

Fran Luckin is by far the smartest and funniest person we know. Her poetry is quite shyte though. Fran is the Chief Creative Officer of Grey Africa. Fran has been named one of the Top 10 most influential people in South African advertising and has judged international and local creative awards shows (including D&AD, the Clio Awards, The One Show, and three tours of duty judging the Cannes Lions.) Her work has been recognized repeatedly at all these award shows. In 2017 she served as Jury...

Sarah Barclay makes the work most of us dream of and won’t rest until there’s equality in Creative Department leadership. After winning AWARD School Sarah was discovered by The Campaign Palace Melbourne, and among her many highlights there, she created Sic ’em Rex for Holeproof. After several years, Sarah joined Clemenger Melbourne where her work included Not Happy Jan for Yellow Pages and The Milk campaign, featuring the legendary Retired Milkman, Roger Daly. Sarah then moved to BBDO New...

Kitty Lun has successfully navigated the double whammy of being both female and Asian on her way to the very top of the game. Born in Hong Kong and studied advertising at Baptist University, Kitty rose quickly and jumped the sacred fence from Creative into management. As Chairman/CEO at Lowe China, Kitty achieved tremendous business growth and led the agency to become the most awarded agency in China in 2014 and 2015. Kitty was named top 10 Creative Directors of the Year and top 10...

Rob Campbell is determined to create an environment where his team feels safe to be dangerous. Now Head of Planning at Colenso and used to be a session guitarist for some of the World’s most well-known, terrible pop stars. He’s lived and worked all over the world and led strategy across America, Europe, Asia and Australasia respectively. He’s made famous work for NIKE, Spotify, IKEA, P&G, Converse, Chrysler & the rock band Metallica, won awards for everything from global Olympic ad...

Nils Leonard is a creative champion with a long list of MotherF&ckers to prove wrong. An agitator for change and diversity in the industry, Nils is a regular speaker and judge at industry events, is on the board of trustees of D&AD and is listed as the Sunday Times 500 most influential people in the UK. More recently Nils has founded the Uncommon Creative Studio alongside Lucy Jameson and Natalie Graeme and is on a mission to build brands the world is happy exists. On their 4th...

Laura Petrucelli managed to convince Post Malone to get a Dorrito face tattoo and taught Morgan Freeman how to Snapchat. Currently Executive Creative Director at Goodby Silverstein and Partners San Fransisco + New York. Laura has been included in Adweek’s Most Creative People in Advertising and both the 3% Conference and the One Show have named her as one of the top 10 Next Creative Leaders. Laura has helmed many a holy grail of Superbowl ads and worked with some of the biggest names in...