The core team is Mark Simmons, Shawn Preston and Ross Ludwig.
Mark was Managing Director of Crispin, Porter + Bogusky’s West Coast office. He formerly held a senior global marketing position at Coca-Cola, is an advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection and is co-author of Punk Marketing:Get Off Your Ass and Join the Revolution.
Shawn worked as a senior creative at Wieden + Kennedy and Bartle Bogle Hegarty working on Nike, Levi’s, ESPN, Audi, Unilever, Miller Brewing, Microsoft and Coca-Cola. He’s won gold, silver and bronze Lions at the Cannes Advertising Festival as well as a British D&AD and One Show Pencils.
Ross was a senior creative at the Saatchi & Saatchi offices in both Singapore and London, helping both offices win Agency of the Year. He’s created award-winning work for Toyota, Sony, HP, Singapore Airlines, Proctor & Gamble, and Pepsi. Ross has won no less than five Lions at the Cannes Advertising Festival.
