Hello.
Strategic creative with experience creating impactful campaigns, traditional and social-first, across multiple consumer categories such as travel & hospitality, telecom & technology, CPG and Food & Beverage for brands like Marriott International, Verizon, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, NBCU, Unilever, AnheiserBush and more. Experience leading teams, both agency and in-house, on integrated work consisting of TV, Social (including influencer), Design & Branding, Digital, OOH and print.
When I’m not working I spend time with my daughter, play guitar in a really loud band, and reminisce
about all the years I spent destroying my knees on a skateboard.
Email: angelo.pournaras@gmail.com
Experience
Marriott International (Riott Haus Creative)
Senior Global Creative Director 9.23 - Present
Riott Haus is Marriott International’s internal creative agency, comprised of creatives, producers, account supervisors, project managers, and a full print and digital production team.
• Led and collaborated with a global, cross-functional team of creative directors, art directors, designers, copywriters and producers (10 people)
• Oversaw all creative output for Marriott’s Premium and Select brands, Marriott Bonvoy portfolio, Loyalty Marketing, and Sports Partnerships and Purpose Driven Marketing
• Directed creative and strategic development of integrated campaigns across
TV, photography, print, OOH, social, and digital
• Directed large scale global brand lifestyle photoshoots and content capture
• Directed and oversee the design and strategy for brand refreshes, visual identity systems and on property collateral design
• Oversaw a Creative Director and Sr Designer to concept and execute the visual identity and B2B marketing for Marriott Media.
• Helped implement the use of AI (ChatGPT/Dall-e, MidJourney, Adobe Firefly) into the creative proecess for ideation, comping, storyboarding and illustration
• Collaborated with agency partners to elevate creative quality while ensuring consistency with strategic and brand frameworks
Movers+Shakers
Creative Director 3.22 - 9.23
Movers+Shakers was Ad Age’s #2 Small Agency of the year (2022) and Adweek’s #1 Fastest Growing Agency (2022).
Known as the agency to go to for TikTok campaigns that moved the needle.
As creative director and part of the leadership team oversaw multiple creative teams on social-first, integrated and influencer / creator campaigns for a wide range of clients including Unilever brands (multiple), Red Bull, Dr. Squatch, Netflix, Amazon (Sports, NFL Parnternship).
Verizon (in-house agency)
Associate Creative Director 5.17 - 3.22
Integrated Campaign Lead: partner with strategy and design to create language and look-and-feel for all new campaigns; lead briefings of channel teams; partner with channel leads to oversee execution, ensuring consistency across channels (social, digital and retail.)
Co-Creative lead on Verizon Up rewards program, a social-led
integrated launch and sustain campaign; liaise with NFL partnership team; oversee partners to ensure consistency across channels. The work earned over 7million enrollments in first year.
Verizon Fios: Reshaped social media presence, breaking Verizon’s benchmark records through social activations, unique content, campaigns and activations utlizing our premium channel and streaming partner’s IP (Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Amazon, Disney+).
VaynerMedia
Associate Creative Director 8.15 - 5.17
Creative lead for multiple Pepsi brands. Directly oversaw a team of eight art and copy creatives on Social-first campaigns and activations. Managed and had creative oversight of monthly content calendars, and served as main creative on all Mountain Dew social media marketing campaigns. I also worked on AT&T, Mondelez brands, NBCU and SyFy, where I helped shape the way the network showed up in the organic/editorial social media space.
Other Agencies 97 - 15
Publicis NY / TracyLocke / Colangelo / BFG (now 9Rooftops)
Working on brands like TGI Friday’s, Pepsi, Mtn Dew, Pernod Ricard (Kahlúa, Malibu), Diageo (Bailey’s, Romana Sambuca, Captain Morgan’s)
