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The Top 25 influential and inspiring Executive Creative Directors

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Nicola Roberts

Executive Creative Director at M&C Saatchi / Publicis MOJO / PROXIMITY / BRAY LEINO

#1 ranked Executive Creative Director

Female Executive Creative Directors are a rare breed. Proud to be one. I take an equal-opportunities approach to my work too. Whether it's a film that stops the jabby finger scrolling. Or the type that needs a good bit of kerning. Found my feet in advertising at Bucks Uni, but the...

Executive Creative Director, Creative Director, Art Director
SARF, London: United Kingdom, New York: United States
United Kingdom

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Francisco Bledel

Managing Director & Global ECD at Accenture, Buenos Aires

Francisco is a creative with over 20 years of experience in the advertising industry, working across local, regional, and global markets at agencies such as The Community, Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi, Ogilvy, and Publicis. He is currently Managing Director & Global ECD at Accenture, leading the...

Executive Creative Director, Copywriter, Managing Director
CABA, NY
Buenos Aires: Argentina

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Felipe Braz Costa

Executive Creative Director at Edelman EMEA, Madrid

Originally from Brazil, Felipe Braz has built an international career across Latin America and Europe, partnering with both global and local brands across sectors including technology, finance, FMCG, health, hospitality and lifestyle. Today, as Executive Creative Director for EMEA at Edelman, he...

Executive Creative Director
Madrid: Spain, London: United Kingdom
Madrid: Spain

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Mark Hurst

Creative Director at the chase, London

#4 ranked Executive Creative Director

Hello, I'm Mark Hurst and I work for The Chase as well as my own clients at the Quick Brown Fox Ltd. I'm a designer and an advertising art director, but what I like most is writing brand stories. These stories took the form of TV advertising, integrated campaigns, interactive campaigns, and brand...

Executive Creative Director, Art Director, Graphic Designer
London: United Kingdom, Dubai: United Arab Emirates, Riyadh: Saudi Arabia
London: United Kingdom

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Khalid Latif

Global Executive Creative Director at VML Health, London

#5 ranked Executive Creative Director

Creativity with purpose. That's what has driven Khalid for over 20 years in healthcare advertising and PR. He's built teams, brought great ideas to life, and helped shape an industry dedicated to making a real difference. As Global Executive Creative Director at VML Health, Khalid spends his days...

Executive Creative Director, Creative Director
London: United Kingdom, Milano: Italy
London: United Kingdom

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Cavan Huang

Executive Creative Director at Huge, Brooklyn

As Executive Creative Director and Global Design Craft Leader at Huge, I lead multidisciplinary teams and build the systems and ways of working that deliver strategic product and experience design at scale. My work makes measurable impact for clients and the people they serve. I've partnered with...

Executive Creative Director, Creative Director, Design Director
Brooklyn
Brooklyn: United States

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Sharon Edmondston

Executive Creative Director at The General Store, Sydney

#7 ranked Executive Creative Director

In 2025 I was appointed as Executive Creative Director at The General Store, a multi-disciplinary creative agency headquartered in Sydney. This appointment follows my brief 8-month tenure at Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney and nearly a decade as Group Creative Director at M&C Saatchi Sydney. During my time...

Executive Creative Director, Creative Director, Art Director
Sydney: Australia
Sydney: Australia

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Daniel Roberts

Executive Creative Director at The Romans, Greater London

#8 ranked Executive Creative Director

"Look mum I made a thing!" - Dan's made a lot of 'things' over the last 15 years... From global ATL campaigns to producing London Fashion Week's most watched catwalk show and the world's first anal sex version of the Kama Sutra. More recently he has lead his team to rewrite Wimbledon history,...

Executive Creative Director
London: United Kingdom
Canterbury, Greater London: United Kingdom

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Sebastian May Galan

Executive Creative Director at Manifiesto, Barcelona

My love for advertising is second only to my first addiction: TV. I'm even trying (and failing) to write a series. I guess that's why I'm obsessed with creating attention-grabbing and consistent narratives for the brands I've worked for, some of which have been recognized at international festivals...

Executive Creative Director, Creative
Barcelona: Spain
Barcelona: Spain

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Paulo Areas

Chief Creative Officer at TBWA, London

Experienced on different markets such as Brasil, Portugal, London, USA, Spain, Korea. Fluent English, Portuguese, and Spanish Led global brands across different markets (Jeep, Chrysler, Magnum, Chesterfield) Led national and international brands (Santander, Iberia, Ford, Fiat, Heineken...) Led...

Executive Creative Director
London: United Kingdom, Sao Paulo: Brazil, madrid: Spain
London: Spain

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Andrew Lawrence

Global Executive Creative Director at Elmwood, United Kingdom

Andrew * is Global Executive Creative Director at Elmwood, one of the world's leading brand design consultancies. He leads creative direction across the global studio network — working with brands including Heineken, Mars, Haleon, and Unilever — with a specific focus on what he calls...

Executive Creative Director
London: United Kingdom, New York: United States, Singapore: Singapore
London, United Kingdom: United Kingdom

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Ross Taylor

Chief Creative Officer at Havas Play, London

#12 ranked Executive Creative Director

Ross * is Chief Creative Officer at Havas Play, with 18 years' experience leading culture-led creative work across sport, partnerships and brands while championing greater inclusivity across the industry. Throughout his career, Ross has helped brands earn meaningful roles within culture,...

Executive Creative Director
London: United Kingdom
London: United Kingdom

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Bernardo Tavares

Founder and Creative Director at Beta Collective, São Paulo

39 years old, 18 years working with ideas. More than 80 awards won with more than 17 ideas. A Brazilian copywriter and creative director, with European citizenship, based in Portugal while running a creative collective (Beta Collective) in Brazil. When I'm not surfing or having fun with my...

Executive Creative Director, Copywriter, Creative Director
São Paulo: Brazil, Lisbon: Portugal
São Paulo: Brazil

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Oliver Maltby

Executive Creative Director at Interbrand, NY

Oliver is an Executive Creative Director at Interbrand, New York. He co-leads a portfolio of 30+ amazing people who work across categories including technology, finance, retail, gaming, and sports. Daily, he straddles the intersection of strategy and design to create experiences that move people and...

Executive Creative Director
NY
NY: United States

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Paul Taylor

Chief Creative Officer & Founding Partner at BrandOpus, London

Paul is a founding partner and Chief Creative Officer at BrandOpus, accountable for the overall creative output of the London, Chicago and Melbourne studios across a broad portfolio of brands and categories. Paul's obsession with brands and graphic design started early, and at age 16 he already had...

Executive Creative Director
London: United Kingdom
London: United Kingdom

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Camilo Garzón

General Creative Director at Star5, Panama

#16 ranked Executive Creative Director

Hello, I'm Camilo, known to most as Cami. I have been working in advertising since 2013. My experience spans across various categories and markets with high-profile networks such as DDB, Grey, Ogilvy, Sancho BBDO, Leo Burnett, and Mullen Lowe Mena in the Middle East (freelance), among others. My...

Executive Creative Director, Creative Director, Copywriter
Bogotá: Colombia, Ciudad de México, Panama City
Panama City, Panama: Panama

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James Ramsden

Executive Creative Director at Coley Porter Bell

I've worked with both brand and digital companies, from creative start-ups to famous global brand agencies. This mix of brand and digital experience has shaped my perspective on brands, design and creativity. Today, my role as Executive Creative Director in New York and London is to help our client's...

Executive Creative Director
London: United Kingdom, New York: United States
United Kingdom

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Anna Jehan

Head of Experience Design at VML

Anna as Head of Experience Design, is a creative and designer at heart who has a passion for bringing brands to life through memorable and human digital experiences. She began her career as a classic designer and has since honed her craft in the digital world, mastering everything from Comms and...

Executive Creative Director
London: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

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Giles Watson

Executive Creative Director at Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne

#19 ranked Executive Creative Director

Giles is a Creative Director excited by ideas that give people a bit of a tickle - work that combines contemporary design & crafted copy with an idea that inherently gets people talking. Over the past decade he's applied that philosophy across three markets on clients big and small, accumulating to...

Executive Creative Director, Creative Director, Art Director
Melbourne: Australia
Melbourne: Australia

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Indy Selvarajah

Chief Creative Officer at Ketchum London, London

Sri Lankan / Malaysian blood. British by design. Born on Rock of Gibraltar. Started in the art world. Showed at Tate, Barbican, Serpentine gallery and Whitney Museum in NY. Pleased. Wrote a TV show for Channel 4, produced by Charlie Brooker. Offended the Daily Mail who tried to ban it. They...

Executive Creative Director
London: United Kingdom
London: United Kingdom

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Tony Pipes

Executive Creative Director at AKA UK, London

#21 ranked Executive Creative Director

Ranked in the Creativepool Top 25 influential and inspiring Executive Creative Directors, I'm currently Executive Creative Director at AKA heading up the creative teams working across some of the UK's biggest Theatre, Museums, Experience and Attractions campaigns. Previously I was Head of Creative...

Executive Creative Director
London: United Kingdom
London: United Kingdom

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Lee Hoddy

Executive Creative Director at Conran Design Group, London

Lee Hoddy Executive Creative Director Responsible for creative standards at Conran, Lee is passionate about solving problems through powerful, communication-driven design. He has held the role of design and creative director at many of the UK's leading branding agencies including Brand Union,...

Executive Creative Director
London: United Kingdom
London: United Kingdom

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Neill Furmston

Brand & Creative Director at SoftServe, Hertfordshire

#23 ranked Executive Creative Director

An award-winning, strategically-minded, results-driven Creative Director, with a keen interest in working with future-focused brands that inspire positive change. Working with some of the greatest brands on this planet, within top tier agencies, two owned agencies, and more recently, in-house for...

Executive Creative Director, Chief Creative Officer, Creative Director
London: United Kingdom, New York: United States
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire: United Kingdom

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Fura Johannesdottir

Global Chief Creative Officer at Interbrand, London

Fura is the ultimate evangelist and primary caretaker of all things creative at Huge, working to ensure the work is the best it can be, and that our creatives are empowered to do the best work of their lives. For over 20 years, Fura has helped some of the world's most innovative companies leverage...

Executive Creative Director, Vice President
London: United Kingdom
London: United Kingdom

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Hope Nardini

Global Executive Creative Director at Grey, New York

Hope Nardini is a Global Executive Creative Director at Grey and Creative Lead for Coca-Cola at WPP Open X. She joined Grey from Droga5 NY, where she led award-winning creative on Instacart and Huggies. Her work includes the True Name Card for Mastercard, "Lizzo's Cart" for Instacart, and the Verizon...

Executive Creative Director
New York: United States
New York: United States

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