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 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, currently with a staff of 45, comprised of creatives, producers, account supervisors, project managers, and a full print and digital production team.
As global Senior CD lead a diverse team of creative directors, art directors, designer, copywriters and producers. Oversee all work done for Marriott’s Premium and Select brands, as well as Marriott Bonvoy Portfolio work, Loyalty Marketing and Sports Partnerships. Projects range from fully integrated campaigns (TV, Print, OOH, Social, digital, etc) to brand refreshes and visual ID systems to brand photo shoots/content capture and films.
Also work with external agencies as a brand-side creative partner to ensure consistency and adherence to strategic campaign and brand standards.
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)
