Jeff Goodby is co-founder and co-chairman of Goodby Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco, the company that Adweek magazine recently chose as Agency of the Decade. GSP has also been named Agency of the Year in Advertising Age, Adweek and Creativity magazines several times each, and has also been selected as Digital Agency of the Year in Advertising Age and Business 2.0, and by The One Club. The firm is widely acclaimed for most successfully integrating traditional and digital media arts. Many of GSP’s campaigns—got milk?, the Budweiser Lizards, Hewlett-Packard’s “Invent,” the National Basketball Association’s “I Love This Game” and the E*TRADE chimpanzee, among them—are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The got milk? campaign that Goodby originated has spawned hundreds of imitators, which are now listed in several places online. In 2002 Goodby served as the president of the Cannes Advertising Festival and has been head of the prestigious Titanium Jury. He has also chaired judging for the ANDYs and The One Club. In 2010 Adweek named him, along with Rich Silverstein, as Executive of the Decade. The two of them were key players in the 2009 industry documentary Art & Copy.
Goodby grew up in Rhode Island and graduated from Harvard, where he wrote for The Harvard Lampoon. Three years were spent as a political reporter in Boston. He began his advertising career at J. Walter Thompson and was lucky enough to meet the legendary Hal Riney at Ogilvy & Mather, whom he still thinks of as his mentor. It was with Riney that Goodby learned his reverence for surprise, humor, craft and restraint. He continues to believe that his success is a happy confluence of his mother, a painter; his father, a Wharton graduate; and his family, a constant reminder of irony and humility. Goodby is also a director, printmaker and illustrator whose work has appeared in TIME and Mother Jones. Two commercials he directed were selected to be among the top 30 advertising films of the 1990s by The One Club of New York. The website based on his “Poemhouse” installation (poemhouse.org) in St. Helena, California, has received thousands of visitors. In 2006 he was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame.
Jeff lives in Oakland, California, with his family, a dog, a cat, a rabbit, three horses and probably some other things he doesn’t know about.
Telefono: 020 7751 1662
PORTFOLIONoam Murro is a multi-award winning commercials director. He has been nominated for DGA Director of the Year five times, winning the honor in 2005. His unique style was established in 1994 with a memorable campaign that captured elderly customers in Katz's famous deli on New York City's Lower East Side. This led to documentary-style exposes of tobacco monsters for the California Department of Health as well as lighter work for Fox Sports. The poignant Flatline spot for Toshiba, in which a dying man's life flashes before him, was singled out and applauded by the New York Times.
In 2002, he directed Saturn's Sheet Metal, a conceptually driven spot that was highly critically acclaimed. In 2003, Adcritic.com labeled his Got Milk? commercial as the best spot of the year. It went on to become the winner of a Gold Lion at the 2003 Cannes Lions awards. Murro's campaign for Olympus garnered him a second Gold Lion at the 2005 awards along with a number of Silver and Bronze statues for other commercials. Recently, Creativity Magazine named him as one of the industry's 50 most influential people in the last 20 years. He was also recently named the UK's #1 director by Campaign magazine.
As well as directing, he is also the founder of Biscuit Filmworks. Smart People is his first feature film.
GREG POPP IS AN AMERICAN FILMMAKER WHO SPECIALIZES IN COMEDY-DIALOGUE COMMERCIALS. GREG HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH MANY HIGH PROFILE, PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES INCLUDING PEYTON MANNING, TROY POLAMALU, ADRIAN PETERSON, HENRIK LUNDQVIST, DANICA PATRICK, ROGER FEDERER AND VENUS AND SERENA WILLIAMS, TO NAME A FEW. GREG’S FORAY INTO FILMMAKING BEGAN AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY WHERE ALONG WITH A FILM DEGREE, HE EARNED A STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD FOR HIS NARRATIVE-LENGTH FILM THE LOTTERY ROSE. AFTER A BRIEF STINT WORKING IN FEATURES, GREG EMBARKED ON A CAREER AT DDB CHICAGO WHERE HIS WORK WITH ANHEUSER-BUSCH WON LITERALLY EVERY MAJOR ADVERTISING HONOR. IN 2005, GREG LEFT DDB TO DIRECT, AND HIS EFFORTS HAVE WON HIM NUMEROUS AWARDS INCLUDING GOLD AT CANNES, CLIOS, ANDYS, AND DISTINCTION FOR HUMOR AND TALENT PERFORMANCE AT AICP/MOMA. IN 2014, GREG’S SHORT FILM, THE DRAMATIC THRILLER LAST SHOT, PREMIER ED AT THE NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL. LAST SHOT WAS A FINALIST AT THE OSCAR-QUALIFYING USA FILM FESTIVAL AND WILL BE APPEARING IN SEVERAL OTHER FESTIVALS AS AN OFFICIAL SELECTION THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
Telefono: 203-857-3047
PORTFOLIOBorn in Germany, Stacy Wall grew up and watched a lot of television in North Carolina. The perfect grounding to a career in advertising – he spent nine years at Wieden+Kennedy as a copywriter and Creative Director on Nike and ESPN.
Stacy transitioned to directing commercials in 2001. He has since imposed his artful directorial style on countless ads in both the US and UK.
In 2009, Stacy launched Imperial Woodpecker in the US, a company dedicated to making Sno-Balls, sponsoring the Japan Men’s National Cricket Team and producing the last TV commercial ever made. But after receiving the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in TV Commercials, it appears there’s still a lot more work to be done….
We’re glad Stacy is a Rogue… And not just because he’s got a Vox Continental organ either… Although it is a splendid organ.
Scott Weintrob’s formative years were spent as a photographer’s assistant at the famous East London Click Studios where he assisted fashion photographers Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Albert Watson, Rankin and David Simms for magazines including Vogue, and Dazed and Confused.
A self-confessed "Car guy", Weintrob directed four seasons of Top Gear for the BBC. With a worldwide audience of 350 million, Weintrob’s work has reached a global-scale, as the show is broadcast in over 200 countries.
Since turning his hand to commercials, Scott has worked for such brands as Audi, Hyundai, Lenovo, Cadillac, Volvo, and Acura.
His recent works received awards including: Cannes Lion, D&AD and Creative Circle Awards.