Overview

Company Summary

Ogilvy & Mather is one of the largest marketing communications companies in the world. It was named the Cannes Lions Network of the Year for four consecutive years, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015; and the EFFIEs World's Most Effective Agency Network for two consecutive years 2012 and 2013. The company is comprised of industry leading units in the following disciplines: advertising; public relations and public affairs; branding and identity; shopper and retail marketing; health care communications; direct, digital, promotion and relationship marketing; consulting, research and analytics; branded content and entertainment; and specialist communications. O&M services Fortune Global 500 companies as well as local businesses through its network of more than 500 offices in 126 countries. It is a WPP company (NASDAQ: WPPGY). For more information, visit http://www.ogilvy.com/, or follow Ogilvy on Twitter at @Ogilvy and on Facebook.com/Ogilvy.

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Lou Aversano
CEO
Lou joined Ogilvy & Mather in 1994 as an Account Supervisor on IBM after working at NW Ayer & Kirshenbaum & Bond. His joining O&M and IBM in 1994 was inspired by a longstanding love for technology coupled with a desire to be a part of a client and agency team that was going to make history by helping to revitalize the IBM brand. He moved to Paris in 1996 to help lead the IBM account across Europe. In summer 2000, he returned to New York to join the IBM worldwide leadership team and became President of the IBM business globally in November 2007.

In the 20 years since joining the team, Lou has been an active citizen of the IBM and O&M partnership and has implemented groundbreaking technological and creative innovations across the body of work. IBM's creative work has garnered scores of recognition from the industry's top awards shows like Cannes and the Effies.

In 2011, Lou was asked to lead the O&M New York operation as Chief Operating Officer, while maintaining global leadership of the IBM business and also running the American Express account. In the past 3 years, Lou focused on building strong discipline expertise that developed integrated communication solutions for clients such as IBM, Unilever, Coca-Cola, UPS, BP, and Time Warner Cable and under his leadership on American Express, O&M earned the highest performance rating in over a decade. During his time as COO, the New York office has won significant new business assignments from clients such as Comcast (Business), E*Trade, and Tiffany & Co.

In April 2014, Lou was named Chief Executive Officer of O&M New York where he is responsible for the agency's business performance, creative strategy, operations, client relationships and talent management while continuing to grow New York, the largest geographic operating unit in the O&M worldwide network.

Prior to joining O&M, Lou had the opportunity to work for a variety of clients that include AT&T, Procter & Gamble, and DeBeers Diamonds. While working on DeBeers, Lou had the good fortune of meeting his wife, Anne Marie (a smart move while working on a diamond account!). Today, they live in New York with their three children.

Chris Garbutt
Chief Creative Officer
Chris Garbutt is currently the Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy & Mather's Eastern North American offices and a member of the agency's Worldwide Creative Council.

Garbutt has won numerous awards—including Grand Prix—in nearly every industry festival around the world.

Prior to his current assignment, Garbutt was Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy Paris where he won an average of seven Cannes Lions per year and propelled the agency to the status of one of the top creative agencies in France and the world.

Chris Garbutt is constantly looking for new and surprising ways to engage people with brands. He’s obsessed with making brands matter in people’s lives. He’s driven to connect to people with social media, inspire play with gaming, move audiences emotionally with storytelling, and create product innovation that’s useful in life.

He believes that when you mix human behavior with technological possibilities, alchemy can happen. Garbutt knows that creativity—emotional, evocative creativity—truly does galvanize strong connections with customers, and drive business growth and market share.

Garbutt hails from South Africa, but he has lived in Europe for the past eleven years. Prior to joining Ogilvy, he was a Creative Director for top agencies such as TBWA Hunt Lascaris South Africa (ranked top creative agency globally for two years) and TBWA Paris (ranked Agency of the Year at Cannes five years in a row).

Adam Tucker
President, Ogilvy Advertising
Adam joined Ogilvy New York in October 2012 as President.

Adam graduated from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois with a Communications degree in 1993.

Adam started his career at Tatham Euro RSCG Chicago as an Account Executive trainee.
Adam joined Fallon Minneapolis in 1995. Playing a key role in the 2001 worldwide pitch for United Airlines, Adam secured the opportunity to move overseas and run the Pan-European business from Fallon London’s new office.

Adam set up Fallon London’s International operation for three Pan-European clients; United Airlines, Citibank and Sony Consumer Electronics. Adam directed development of United’s European campaign that went on to win Gold, Silver, and Bronze Lions in Cannes and a Euro Effie. For Citibank, he led the European launch of Citibank’s infamous “Live Richly” campaign. For Sony Consumer Electronics, Adam led the pitch winning “you make it a Sony” campaign rollout.

In 2006, Adam joined AMV BBDO, the UK’s largest, most-creatively awarded agency as a Global Board Director. His first role was to lead the pitch team that won the Motorola European business from Ogilvy (only later resigning it back to Ogilvy!)

Recognizing Adam’s proficiency in developing award-winning work for big International brands, Adam was promoted to Worldwide Client Service Director in 2007 to oversee the AMV BBDO’s portfolio of lead Global assignments for Johnson & Johnson, GE, Pepsico, Dulux, Arla Dairy and Birds Eye.

Adam was promoted in 2009 to Managing Partner to have a direct hand in AMV BBDO’s day to day management and operations. Adam led the drive to modernize AMV BBBO forming AMV Pulse – AMV’s social media unit. He also led a creative transformation on Pepsico (Frito-Lay, Quaker, Pepsi Max). In 2011, Adam took the stage with his team in Cannes to accept the Inaugural Cannes Grand Prix for Creative Effectiveness for (Frito-Lay) “Walkers Sandwich”.

Over his career, Adam has run some of the world’s most iconic brands including Sony, Citibank, United Airlines, Pepsico, Johnson & Johnson, Motorola, Coca-Cola, and GE.

Dimitri Maex
President, OgilvyOne New York
Dimitri is the president of OgilvyOne NY. He is also a member of OgilvyOne's Worldwide board. He joined Ogilvy in 1998 in Brussels to run the analytics capability. In 2001 Dimitri transferred to the London office to become Principal of International Consulting, responsible for developing the consultancy offering for international clients. He also became the head of Ogilvy's Global Data & Analytics practice. In 2004 Dimitri moved to San Francisco to work at Cisco’s headquarters in San José. There he was responsible for developing Cisco's advanced analytics department. After a spell in Silicon Valley, he moved to the New York office to run Ogilvy's Strategy team, which included Ogilvy’s Marketing Strategy, CRM and Analytics capabilities. His main client was Sears Holdings where Ogilvy served as relationship marketing agency of record. He took on the management of OgilvyOne in NY in 2011. Dimitri began his career as a financial controller at Kraft Foods, after which he joined the Amsterdam Group (European Alcoholic Beverages Industry Group) as a market analyst for the EU. Born and raised in Antwerp, Belgium, Dimitri studied econometrics at the University of Antwerp. He got his MBA at the Xavier Institute of Management in Bhubaneswar-India. His hobbies are soccer, tennis, squash and music. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Katherine and their one year old daughter Ray.

Colin Mitchell
Worldwide Head of Planning
Colin is Worldwide Head of Planning. He joined Ogilvy in 1999 as the Group Planning Director on IBM. In 2004 he became Chief Strategy Officer for New York and then North America. In his time at Ogilvy he has worked on several of the agency's big brand transformations, including BP and Cisco as well as Time Warner Cable, Unilever, DHL, Kaplan and many others. He has won two Grand Effies. Before Ogilvy, Colin worked at Cliff Freeman & Partners where he worked on the Cannes winning Budget Rent a Car and Outpost.com campaigns. He started his career at BMP (now DDB) in London as an apprentice planner. Colin is on the board of the Advertising Education Foundation. He has written for the Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal and has been profiled by Advertising Age. Colin grew up in Scotland and now lives in Chelsea with his wife and three excessively young children.

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