About me

Alex is the Chief Creative Officer at Havas Lynx Group, one of the leading global healthcare communications groups. In his first year at Havas Lynx, Alex helped Lynx to be the top UK HealthCare and Innovation agency in Cannes for 2 years in a row (2024/2025) thanks to multiple Silvers. Bronze and shortlists. Before joining Havas Lynx, Alex was the Executive Creative Director for International accounts at MullenLowe, where he worked as the global creative leader for emblematic brands from Bayer, Unilever, and Amazon. Previously in his career, Alex worked as the CCO of Publicis Spain, was CCO in McCann Brazil, Regional Creative Director for Latin America at Leo Burnett US, and ECD in Leo Burnett Portugal. His career started in Brazil, where he worked at Leo Burnett and DDB. Alex has won 20 Cannes Lions throphies and dozens of other awards in important shows such as the D&AD, One Show, Eurobest, the Clio's, LIA, Effie's, El OJO, CC, and many others. During his career, Alex worked in several countries and led campaigns and teams on five continents. Some of the prestigious brands that Alex has worked for include Persil/OMO, Coca-Cola, Renault, Fiat, GM, McDonald's, Knorr, Amazon Prime Video, Greenpeace, Mastercard, Visa, Unilever, P&G, Heinz, Kellogg's, AstraZeneca, Merck, Sanofi, UCB and GSK. Alex also helped to elect the first female president in his birth country, Brazil.

Skills

Art Direction, Brand building, Business Development, Consumer Advertising, Copywriting, Creative Direction, Healthcare & Pharma Communication, innovation, Political Propaganda, Purposeful communication, Script Writing, Strategy Planning, Technology applied to ideas

Sector Experience

Advertising, Automobiles, Consumer Durables, corporate image, Finance, Food & Beverages, Healthcare, Household Goods, Politics

Awards

Campaign BIG Award - Silver, Cannes Lions - Bronze, Cannes Lions - Gold, Cannes Lions - Silver, Clios - Bronze, Clios - Gold, Clios - Silver, D&AD Award - Graphite Pencil, D&AD Award - Wood Pencil, D&AD Award - Yellow Pencil/White pencil, Effie\'s - Gold, El Ojo Gold, Eurobest Award Gold, LIA Award - Bronze, LIA Award - Gold, LIA Award - Silver, One Show - Bronze Pencil

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Achievements
2025 TOP 100 Creative LeadersCreative Leader of the Year 2024 TOP 100 Creative LeadersCreative Leader of the Year Annual 2026 ShortlistCreative Leader of the Year Annual 2018 JudgeOOH
Top 25 Chief Creative Officer Project featured:Airquity
on 8th July 2024
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Alex Okada has been a Contributor since 25th November 2015.

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Contract
Perm, Freelance, Temp-Perm, Part time, Remote
Location
London, United Kingdom
Skill Level
Director
Languages
Fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese. Basic Italian
Creativepool member since 12 January 2018