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Chris Baylis Executive Creative Director Tribal DDB AmsterdamChris Baylis has been in digital advertising for more than ten years. As Executive Creative Director of Tribal DDB Amsterdam, he is responsible for the entire creative portfolio of the agency. For the past 18 months, his main focus has been the digital communications of Philips Electronics alongside the digital advertising of some of Unilever's key brands.
Prior to moving to the Netherlands in 2008, Chris was based in London. At GT he was Creative Director on several award-winning pieces of work for Audi, and he worked across a broad range of clients at Agency Republic, including Lynx, Playstation, O2, Smirnoff and Egg. His first break came at Profero where he worked for five years on clients such as Frank, Child Protection Online, Police and Ask Jeeves.
He still holds writing as his first love, and continues to write short fiction and screenplays. |
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Daniel Bergmann Executive Producer Stink DigitalDaniel started his career in the Prague art scene, helping to discover new artists and promoting conceptual multimedia artwork work from around the world.
Moving to the United States, he worked as an art dealer and art fundraiser in New York and San Francisco. At this time Daniel was also involved in producing music videos and concerts at Central Park Summer Stage (Lou Reed, Gypsy Kings) in both America and Japan. He also produced a holocaust documentary drama for PBS, which saw his return to the Czech Republic.
Daniel Bergmann is currently Managing Director of London based international production company Stink. One of the first with a global outlook, Daniel has made it Stink's mission to find and nurture local and international talent and to work directly with the most creative people, regardless of territory, to produce fresh, exciting and original projects, TV commercials, music videos etc. With the additional strength of Stink Paris and Stink Berlin, Stink represents an eclectic roster of directors around the world, and remains at the cutting edge of commercials production.
Last year saw the birth of Stink Digital, which is currently developing and redefining Stink's role through multimedia and internet - winning the Grand Prix at Cannes 2009 for Philips 'Carousel'. Stink is also involved in developing other forms such as documentaries, short films, animation and feature projects. |
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Neil Dawson Global Creative Director DDB WorldwideNeil is Global Creative Director of the Philips account. It’s a cool job: it has him based in DDB London, but lets him work with DDB offices all over the world.
Neil began his career at Leo Burnett in London, the surprised but smiling winner of a Young Copywriters Competition. After 8 years in the basement, he packed his bags and together with his long-time copywriting partner, set out for South Africa, arriving just in time to witness the country’s first free elections.
Most recently he has launched the world’s first cinema proportioned television – Cinema 21:9 ‘Carousel’ the interactive film for this campaign recently won the Grand Prix at Cannes. This can be viewed at www.cinema.philips.com
As part of his travels, Neil can often be found on many of world’s ad juries judging Cannes, Clio, D&AD, Adfest, Kancils, Campaign Press and Poster and the SA Eagles (He’s had the good fortune to win awards at all of them.)
A keen photographer, Neil is also a keen (but less than average) golfer and a keen (nay, ardent) supporter of England Rugby. One of his most prized possessions is a signed copy of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography. He was educated at Bedford School and Salisbury College of Art. He’s married to Helen with two children, Billy and Hannah. |
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Diederick Koopal Creative Director ex-TBWA\NEBOKODiederick Koopal started as Copywriter at DDB, together with Art Director Cor den Boer. As a team they made award winning campaigns for e.g. Hooghoudt, Volkswagen and Centraal Beheer. Den Boer and Koopal moved to Lintas in 1993. Here they created for instance the new communication strategy for Unox and Cup-a-Soup (John de manager). All in close cooperation with Simon Neefjes, who was then responsible for these accounts. In 1995 Den Boer and Koopal became Creative Director at Ammirati Puris Lintas. Under their creative leadership the agency became one of the most creative agencies in the Netherlands.
At NEBOKO successful campaigns were created under the leadership of Diederick , such as Heineken (‘Biertje?’), Tempo-Team (‘Dat is er een van Tempo-Team’), Albert Heijn, TomTom, Pearle en Unilever; Cup-a-Soup and Unox (‘Unox blijft Unox’).
In the beginning of 2009 Diederick and Cor have passed the creative management over to Bas Engels, Pim van Nunen, Matthijs Slot en Ernst Jan van Rossen. |
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Paul Lavoie, Co-founder TaxiIn 1992, Paul Lavoie co-founded TAXI with partner Jane Hope, successfully combining the disciplines of advertising and design. After sixteen years, seven offices in Canada the U.S and Europe., and an expanded product offering, TAXI remains independent and committed to its original vision. Its clients include BMW-MINI, Heineken, Viagra, MoMA, Burger King, KPN and Microsoft.
TAXI has been named Agency of the Year by Canadian publications seven times in the last eight years. After only two years in the U.S., TAXI garnered the AAAA Creative Excellence Award in 2007 and again in 2008.
Marketing Magazine in August, 2008 named Lavoie one of the 10 most influential pioneers in Canadian marketing over the past century. In 2006, Creativity Magazine listed him among the 50 most influential creative minds of the last twenty years. That year, he also became the youngest inductee of the Canadian Marketing Hall of Legends. Lavoie is Advisory Board President of the New York Art Directors Club, a member of the Marketing Advisory Committee for the Museum of Modern Art, and a board member of the Virginia Commonwealth University Brand Center. |
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