Head of Brand Creative · San Francisco
I like to build brands. And I like to keep score.
Creative should earn its keep. I’ve held that line leading brand creative at SurveyMonkey and Cisco Meraki, and before that at an agency making work for Disney and Doctors Without Borders. Make it good, then make it count.
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Numbers are our friends
Every brand is a story people tell. Creativity loves constraints, and a number on the board is one of my favorites. If you want to know what’s working, you gotta keep count.
Selected work
All work →
What if you just knew? Two cities, one question, two very different answers.
Project Catalyst: making SurveyMonkey look like SurveyMonkey again.
Doubling aided awareness with F1, the Warriors, and Giancarlo Esposito.
Taking over downtown San Francisco for NBA All-Star Weekend.
Thoughts
All writing →How a modest to-do list about color contrast became Project Catalyst, and what two years of doing the work taught the team.
Read →Near-universal awareness, almost no product awareness. Why being famous for the wrong thing is a brand problem — and a pipeline problem.
How to report a brand team’s work so leadership can see the quarter-to-quarter wins and the equity that compounds.
Stubborn on vision. Flexible on details.
Hold the think/feel/do outcome with conviction. Stay genuinely open on the asset, format, and channel.
Report the mix: now, next, later.
Quarterly wins, two-quarter bets, and brand equity that compounds — and a defensible split between them.
Creativity is a state, not a trait.
Craft is learnable, accountability is a skill, and constraints are what make the game worth playing.