Martyn Dean

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I began my career as an art director and designer in England, working for a regional creative agency before joining some of London’s top agencies including Abbott Mead Vickers and OgilvyOne Worldwide.

An opportunity to move across the pond saw me arrive at Ogilvy in Chicago as Creative Director. I moved my family and we stayed ever since.

After producing award-winning work for Unilever’s Suave business and Allstate Insurance, I joined Razorfish to work on Kraft’s digital business. Later as Group Creative Director at EuroRSCG, I managed and ran the Citibank, Kraft, and Bibby integrated accounts. I've also led the entire creative services team at Rhea+Kaiser, (as ECD), stabilizing and growing the team and building a highly successful video production unit from scratch.

Recently I have brought my experience as a creative consultant to businesses, focusing on strategic solutions and digging into the power of combining creativity with behavioral science. At the same time, I've been keeping my creative and design skills sharp by continuing to be hands-on when necessary.

I have been lucky enough to work with and learned from some great writers like David Abbott, Ed McCabe, Neil French, Rory Sutherland, and other marvelous creative people.

Making connections with people through empathy and really knowing who they are is critical. Getting to the core of a challenge, or business need and translating a smart solution into simple, effective communication has been my driving creative philosophy.

Subsequently, awards have been won for my work, including a D&AD Silver Pencil, Cannes, One Show, Effies, and many others.

Let's work together on something.

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