BRAND & CREATIVE EXECUTIVE
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I'm actively exploring VP Brand & Creative opportunities. If you're building something worth believing in — a brand with real ambition and a creative team that deserves great leadership — l'd love to hear about it.
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ABOUT
Strategy-first.
Team-built.
AI-forward.
Team-built.
AI-forward.
I didn't choose this field. Making things was just what I did. As a kid, as a student, as the person who couldn't leave it alone until it was right — until it was conveying the right thing. At some point, that compulsion became a career that propels me out of bed every day.
I build strong brands and the superior creative teams that bring them to life.
That pairing matters to me. A lot of creative leaders are great at one or the other. They can shape a brand vision or build a high-performing team. I've spent my career doing both simultaneously, and I've learned they're not separate disciplines. The brand you build is a direct reflection of the creative culture behind it. Get the culture right, and the work follows.
My obsession is strategy. Not because I'm not a creative — I am, deeply — but because I've seen too many beautiful executions built on the wrong foundation. If the positioning is off, no amount of craft saves it. So before I care about how something looks, I care about whether it's true, differentiated, and built to last.
That's the lens I bring to every brand I touch.
What that looks like in practice
At Aurora University, I built a creative department from two people to a nationally awarded team of seven powering an institutional rebrand that drove $200M in enrollment growth.
At JLL, I've operated at Fortune 200 scale, building brand governance systems that protect a $1.3B brand valuation across 80+ countries while pioneering AI tools that 16K+ users access monthly.
In between, I've run my own brand consultancy, led agency creative operations, and directed campaigns that outperformed benchmarks by multiples.
The throughline isn't an industry or a format. I find the strategic truth in a brand, build the team to express it, and create the conditions for exceptional work to happen consistently — not just once.
On AI
AI isn’t a threat. The brands winning right now are the ones using it with purpose, not to replace judgment, but to move faster, test smarter, and free their teams to focus on the human work. AI has solved volume and velocity — vision is still ours.
I've been integrating AI into workflows since before it was a stock-market topic, and I'm not done yet.
My teams would tell you I have high standards — but I never make you feel bad for not meeting them, yet. The goal is always to get to the best work, and the best way to do that is to make it safe to take risks, to learn, be honest, and keep the bar visible at all times.
That's the kind of creative culture I build. And it's the kind I'm looking to build next.
