Chad Warner

Chad Warner

Integrated Creative Director at McCann London
London, United Kingdom

About me

I’m a semi-creative dude focused on the evolution of building brands through creativity in a modern ways. 20+ years in, I know all that matters is giving talented people the space to be brilliant, pushing yourself to do something that hasn’t been done before, and being as happy as possible. Everything else will fall into place.

That's about all I want to type about myself. It's the opinion of the people that work with you that really matter, read the recommendations below for some different points of view. If you wanna chat and see some recent projects, visit www.chadwarner.com.

Happy days.

CLIENTS INCLUDE: Apple, Samsung, X Box, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, Buick, Philips, Skype, Wimbledon, UNICEF, TalkTalk, Burger King, Aldi, Argos, British Gas, Carphone Warehouse, Bacardi, Viagra, Eurostar, Barclaycard, Vertu, XM, ESPN, Discovery Channel, Novartis, and Merck.

Positions

Integrated Creative Director
London, United Kingdom
August 2015 - Present (9 years 4 months)
Hand in hand with our loving CCO's Rob and Lol, I oversee all the work going through the office with a keen slant on pushing everything into more integrated, modern directions. I also spend a good chunk of energy tuning the evolution of our operations, pitching (and winning), and dancing in semi-sexy ways (badly).

CLIENTS: X Box, MasterCard, Subway, Wimbledon, Aldi, GWR, Microsoft, and a load of food brands.
Digital Creative Director / Partner
Global
May 2011 - August 2015 (4 years 3 months)
CHI&Partners is one of London’s best and most awarded independent ad agencies. Packed full of people that are in love with great ideas and true creative thinking. My role was to creatively oversee all digital / technology work across all clients. Basically I tried to have fun, be nice and do things that haven't been done before whenever I could.

CLIENTS: Samsung, Lexus, Vertu, Burger King, Argos, Maybelline, Jack Wills, TalkTalk, Drench, British Gas, Carphone Warehouse...
Executive Creative Director
London, United Kingdom
January 2008 - April 2011 (3 years 3 months)
With my partner Barney Cockerell, we rebuilt the department into a completely integrated group of 50+ creatives producing award and pitch winning work for Skype, Eurostar and Virgin. I was also the Creative Director for all Apple our work - delivering over 50 integrated campaigns over for 3 years, in 13 languages.

CLIENTS: Apple, Philips, Skype, UNICEF, Bacardi, Viagra, Eurostar, GSK and Barclaycard.
VP, Group Creative Director
London, United Kingdom
October 2005 - January 2008 (2 years 3 months)
I was brought in to help accelerate New York's transition from the best direct agency out there to the integrated agency that it is today. I pitched and ran the XM, ESPN and Discovery Channel work, while also driving the re-invention of the Mercedes-Benz, Novartis and Merck work into modern, integrated campaigns. Good fun.

CLIENTS: Mercedes-Benz, XM, ESPN, Discovery Channel, WaMu, Novartis and Merck.
Executive Creative Director
i33
November 2003 - October 2005 (1 year 11 months)
Outstanding integrated agency in New York and Detroit. As ECD, I served as the creative lead for our relationships with Buick, Delphi and GM and of course lead the creative groups in both offices.

CLIENTS: GM, Buick, Cadillac, Bodum and Delphi.
Owner / Creative Director
rethawt
March 2002 - November 2003 (1 year 8 months)
rethawt was an advertising boutique I started based on affordable, quality design and truly integrated advertising for small businesses. It was very quickly a big success and I ramped up with some great designers, writers, animators and developers - to later merge into i33. Win, win.

CLIENTS INCLUDE:
GM, Buick, PBS, VW, Johnson Controls and Detroit Public Television.
Art Director / Senior Art Director / Associate Creative Director /
marchFIRST / USWeb / CKS / Divine
April 1998 - March 2002 (3 years 11 months)
As one of the largest interactive agencies during the .com years. I earned my digital chops here working on something new everyday. In the end, I was the creative lead for the Detroit office, responsible for the direction and management of a 35+ person creative group.

CLIENTS INCLUDE:
AOL, Yahoo, DaimlerChrysler and Audi.
Art Director
CDS Detroit
November 1996 - April 1998 (1 year 5 months)
Designer
the Whitcomb Design Group Inc.
September 1994 - November 1996 (2 years 2 months)

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