Ray was born and bred in Brighton, England, and at the ripe old age of 14 decided to get into advertising. By the time he graduated from the UK's then-only advertising degree course, he decided he wanted to make films and went to film school.

But after working in London and travelling to Hong Kong in 1996, he succumbed again to his first love and worked at various agencies including DMB&B, Saatchi & Saatchi and Bates, where he became one of the most awarded creatives in Hong Kong at the time. At 31 he became ECD at Bates in Beijing, leading the creative for Nokia's global emerging markets division. He then went on to join Wieden + Kennedy in Shanghai, and then to Singapore where he co-founded Mill Stirling, an integrated creative hotshop which was the nation state's sole winner at last year's One Show Interactive Awards.

Since mid 2012, Ray has come back to Beijing and foolishly pretends he is breathing in the Brighton sea air when going out for a run.

Pete Chatmon is the guy you want behind the lens. His debut feature film, "Premium", starred Dorian Missick, Zoe Saldana, and Hill Harper and is currently airing on The Showtime Networks. Chatmon also wrote, produced, and directed "761st", a documentary on the first black tank battalion in WWII, narrated by Emmy-winner, Andre Braugher.

He has directed a variety of commercials and music videos including Grammy-winning artist Joe's hit, "We're Family", from the soundtrack to "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins", starring Martin Lawrence. Chatmon is also the recipient of the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival "All Access" Program's Creative Promise Narrative Award for the bank heist screenplay ".99", written in collaboration with Candice Sanchez McFarlane. A graduate of New York University's, Tisch School of the Arts, Chatmon has been featured in Forbes Magazine, Variety, and NBC's Weekend Today in NY.

Arun Chaudhary is a filmmaker working in politics. He is currently the Senior Vice President of Communications at Revolution Messaging and a fellow at George Washington University.

Chaudhary was the first Official White House Videographer, a position created for him at the beginning of the Obama administration. Chaudhary traveled extensively with the President, capturing public events and behind-the-scenes moments as well as producing and packaging presidential tapings for the Internet and broadcast television. He is the creator and architect of “West Wing Week,” the first-ever online video diary of the White House. During his tenure, he wrote, produced, shot and edited over 63 episodes of West Wing Week, documenting the President through his rigorous weekly agenda. He also directed many tapings of the Weekly Address.

Chaudhary was a key member of Barack Obama's New Media team during the 2008 campaign. As the New Media Road Director, Chaudhary oversaw the team responsible for capturing the day-to-day life of the future president in video and stills. He and his team set a new standard in documenting history, delivering crucial images to the public from the road in real time.

Before joining the Obama team, Chaudhary worked in film in New York and was part of the NYU Graduate Film Department faculty. He received his MFA in Filmmaking from NYU and his BA in Film Theory from Cornell University . Chaudhary has been profiled by the New York Times, the BBC, National Journal, Politico, Fortune, and many political websites. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and son.

Jesse Coulter is Co-Chief Creative Officer at CAA Marketing, a division of Creative Artists Agency, an entertainment and sports agency based in Los Angeles with offices in New York, London, Nashville, and Beijing. CAA Marketing provides corporate clients with creative solutions that leverage the power of entertainment to build brands and drive business results. CAA Marketing clients include Coca-Cola, Chipotle, General Motors, Mattel, Diageo, Dell, Southwest Airlines, QVC, and Best Buy, among others.

CAA Marketing was the driving force behind Coca-Cola's long-standing partnership with American Idol and Hasbro's Transformers film franchise. Recent successes include Chipotle's award-winning animated short film "Back to the Start" featuring Willie Nelson covering Coldplay; the first and second brand films ever accepted to the Sundance Film Festival; the first-ever live interactive show on Hulu; Mitchum's television show and social media search for "The Hardest Working Person In America;" Dell's search for "America's Favorite Small Business;" and Mattel's momentum in entertainment with seven feature films currently in development including Hot Wheels, Monster High, and Masters of the Universe. Coulter's work for the agency extends beyond marketing; he is also helping to develop products, brands and content for the agency's professional athletes, musicians, and motion picture talent.

Coulter began his career at Lowe and Partners San Francisco, followed by work at Leagas Delaney in 1999. In 2003, he left San Francisco for Wieden+Kennedy New York, where he worked with Nike, ESPN, and others.

Before joining CAA Marketing in 2006, Coulter pushed the boundaries of brand storytelling with the creation of branded music videos featuring rapper Common for Nike's brand Jordan and The Black Eyed Peas for the NBA that aired on BET and MTV respectively. In 2006, Coulter won the top interactive award at Cannes, the Cyber Grand Prix Lion, for a viral film featuring Marc Ecko tagging Air Force One. Coulter has also directed TV spots for ESPN and a Webby Award-winning campaign for GAP.

Coulter graduated from University of Oregon with a degree in Journalism and Communications.

John left Brown University when he was cast in Universal's sequel to Jaws, Jaws 2 and continued to work as an actor for the next 6 years. After a brief hiatus from the entertainment business in which he worked on the US Senate staff for freshman Sen. John Kerry and helped run a presidential campaign, he began work with an attorney in Boston named Bob Woolf who had built a significant international practice representing professional athletes. John ran the music business management department and spent most of his time on a developing local act: New Kids on the Block. Within several years the company grew and he was sent to Los Angeles to open an office there with an emphasis on working with other established and developing acts.

John became the general manager of Paisley Park Records, a joint venture between the artist Prince and Warner Bros. Records. During his tenure, the company released a Prince album as well as projects from George Clinton andMavis Staples.

After Prince, he formed a new venture with his partner, Qadree El-Amin. Southpaw Entertainment was a full service management company. In its early years it primarily focused on the management of Boyz II Men. But after the record-setting success of the 12X platinum "II" album, the company took on new clients. Over the years, Southpaw also handled the careers of Janet Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Brownstone and Blackstreet among others.

As the new millennium dawned, John left Southpaw to take a position as an Executive Vice President of Overbrook Music, a music label as well as a full service management company owned and operated by Will Smith and his partner, James Lassiter. The company released the multi-platinum-certified soundtrack for the film Wild Wild West as well as the gold-certified soundtrack for the film Love and Basketball. In addition to Will, the company also managed Robin Thicke, Ginuine, Jordan Knight, Deborah Cox and singer/songwriter Javier Colon.

Since 2007 John has been at Hill Holliday where, with Mike Dyer, he leads a department that focuses on creating branded content and identifying and nurturing innovative partnerships in television, film, print and online. The Content Department concepts and creates all of the content for Liberty Mutual's award-winning Responsibility Project.

Sean Dunne has a talent for capturing the most interesting characters and brining their stories to life to on film. When Sean met Paul Mawhinney and heard about his love of early recordings and how over the years he had amassed the world's largest collection of vinyl records soon destined to be dismantled, he knew it was a story he wanted to tell. The resulting short film, The Archive, profiled the partially blind collector and his love of music premiered at the pres-­ tigious Sundance film festival. Eloquent yet concise, The Archive has gone on to Silver Docs, received worldwide press and over one million internet hits to date. Following The Archive was the short film, Man in Van, about a guy in New York City who lives in his van with his three dogs, and then there was The Bowler about booze, broads and bowling. The Bowler is an entertaining profile of a Staten Island man who makes his living hustling at the bowling alley.

Sean's short film Stray Dawg, is a fun look at the musician Johnny Corndawg, "everyone's favorite puddin' head calzone inhaler." His most recent documentary short, American Juggalo, is an inside look at the often mocked and misunder-­ stood subculture of Juggalos, hardcore Insane Clown Posse fans, who meet once a year for four days at The Gathering of the Juggalos.

A filmmaker with roots in TV as well; Sean brings his storytelling skills to spots and new media projects including the campaign for Nike "Road to Boom", staring hockey star Steven Stamkos; the charming portraits of Sundance directors Derek Cinafrance, Joel Schumacher, Bryan Poyser, among others; a campaign for Microsoft 365 featuring small business owners; as well as taking part in a multi-­city campaign for Bank of America.

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John focuses on creating 360 brand ideas that take brands from the interruption to engagement model. He believes hat advertising should stop interrupting what people are interested in and become what they are interested in. His 20 years of brand-building expertise includes stints at FCB-Chicago and JWT/Team Detroit. At FCB, his Coors Light Twins campaign was parodied on "Saturday Night Live," reviewed in The New York Times Magazine and debated on "60 Minutes." Before that, his "It's Not Delivery, It's Digiorno" campaign resulted in six years of double-digit growth. At JWT/Team Detroit, John created a string of successful branded content series, branded music videos, short films and online social movements which helped Ford make the most dramatic turnaround in automotive history. More recently, John's work on Gatorade's Everything To Prove garnered a Silver Lion in the new Branded Content category and became the most watched and talked about video content in Gatorade's history. John started his career in Kansas City and is happy to be back home at VML, where he feels he's found the future and one of the most exciting opportunities in advertising today.

Ron Honsa is the Executive Producer of Moving Pictures and has overseen hundreds of projects for its diverse clientele since founding the company 20 years ago. Under his leadership, Moving Pictures has distinguished itself as a production company for original programming, corporate communications, and branded entertainment. The company has been recognized through the years by a wide range of industry awards, including numerous Emmys, the prestigious Peabody Award and a DuPont Award for Broadcast Excellence.

Ron's broad experiences in television have taken him all over the world and placed him in almost every type of production environment. Film and television production credits include: The One Show, Between the Lions, Adoption, CBS Reports, Late Line, B Smith with Style, Saturday Night Live, Battle of the Giants, One Life to Live, Sesame Street, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Live at Lincoln Center, and America's Most Wanted.

As a creative director, Ron Honsa has successfully collaborated with the company's Fortune 500 corporate clients to create innovative media presentations and brand-centric content. He often directs leading CEOs and corporate executives for high profile videos for live events, marketing films, product launches and webcasts.

During his career, Ron has directed such well-known personalities as Lauren Bacall, Robin Williams, Bill Moyers, Nelson Mandela, Gladys Knight, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jim Nantz, Deborah Norville, Alec Baldwin and other celebrities. He has also produced second unit production segments for various feature films including Head of State, Cadillac Man, The Fallen, Silence of the Lambs, She-Devil, Truce Colors, Quick Change, Jungle Fever and Awakenings. Ron's work has been honored with numerous awards in the International Film and TV Festival of New York, the Chicago International Film Festival, the American Film Festival and the Houston Film Festival.

After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in journalism and mass communication, Margaret took a hard right and pursued an art direction degree at the Portfolio Center in Atlanta, GA. Her first job was freelancing for a small advertising agency in Providence, Rhode Island called Leonard, Monahan, Lubars & Kelly where she cut her teeth on accounts like Polaroid and Keds tennis shoes.

A few months later, she decided to pack up and head for the Lone Star State. She took a job at The Richards Group in Dallas, Texas where she worked on Id Software, creators of video games like "Doom" and "Quake." She launched lots of games with imagery of monsters, screaming faces and dead bodies. She also produced work for Continental Airlines and Humvee (you know, Arnold Schwarzenegger drives one).

A couple years later, she received a call from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco. She packed up and headed west again. In twelve years, she's worked on just about every account in the building– Sonic, Häagen-Dazs, Logitech, Nintendo, Specialized, hp, Foster Farms and Budweiser, just to name a few.

When she's not working, she enjoys running, kickboxing, movies and traveling. In 2008 she completed her first film, Dunkumentary, which was part of the Short Film Corner at Cannes.

Julian Katz is an Executive Producer of Content & Development at BBDO in New York, tasked with developing and producing branded entertainment and non-traditional projects across all clients on the agency's roster. Julian joined BBDO in August 2010, following a five-year stint at BBH New York. He has worked at agencies in San Francisco, Boston & New York for the past 18 years and has produced countless TV commercials for clients such as Levi's, HUMMER and Sony PlayStation, as well as content pieces such as this year's Daybreak for AT&T, The Gamekillers MTV series for Axe (2007) and the Cannes Titanium-winning Oasis Dig Out Your Soul - In The Streets for Warner Brothers and NYC & Company (2008). In 2010, Julian served on the Curatorial Committee for the 18th annual AICP Show.

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Currently, Peter is in production of a Documentary called "AL." It is the story of an alcoholic New Yorker who cannot put more than 5 days of sobriety together in a row because he's convinced drinking prevents loneliness.

Peter's career has been spent equally between West Coat and East Coast. He spent the first 9 years of his career in San Francisco area shops. At Goodby, Silverstein and Partners creating memorable campaigns for Polaroid, HP and PacBell. Peter also made a simple word known to the world that transformed television as we know it, TiVo. While working at Leagas Delaney on adidas, Peter developed many award winning campaigns including the infamous, "What the hell is ANSKY?" campaign for the Yankees sponsorship.

Peter then jetted to the East Coast where he has been Chief Creative Officer of Publicis-leading the New York office to receive the most creative honors in its history. The Chief Creative Officer of Deutsch where he created the memorable and award winning IKEA campaign around the election of President Obama. The first and last Chief Creative Officer of Redscout a brand innovation shop. And, Peter had two adventures at JWT as ECD and Chief Creative Officer receiving accolades for iconic brands such as JetBlue, Cadbury, Diageo, Macy's and J&J. Peter grew up in Washington DC where he loved ads not politics. He went to Denison University and then received an MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Rick Overton has been doing standup comedy since before there were lockable steering columns on cars. Seriously. Rick believes that Comedy shares it's roots with Country Western and The Blues because they're all just complaining to a rhythm.

When not doing standup comedy, Rick can be seen on local dog park paths getting to visit all the dogs he wants without having to actually own or pay for any of them. Win-win.

Rick's philosophy on life is - "One cannot achieve true happiness without Serotonin"

Jaime Robinson to Executive Creative Director, San Francisco. Robinson has been with the agency since 2009 leading notable accounts such as Intel and LEGO. Notable work from Pereira & O'Dell includes highlights the debut of Hollywood's first social film dubbed "The Inside Experience" for Intel and Toshiba, and the creativity-inspired LEGO CL!CK campaign. With over 14 years in the industry, Jaime Robinson has written everything from matchbook copy to multi-million dollar, effects-driven television spots. Her career spans both traditional and digital agencies (TBWAChiatDay, EVB, Mad Dogs and Elnglishmen).

Her team at Pereira & O'Dell has consistently delivered award winning work for global brands such as Intel, Toshiba, Skype, Henkel, Mattel, LEGO and Corona. Her agency has been featured in the SF Business Times for 3 consecutive years as a "Best Place to Work" as well as 7x7's "Hot 20", a list of San Francisco companies who are making their mark on the city. Most recently, the agency was named to both AdAge and Creativity's 2011 A-Lists.

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Stephen William Schudlich is the Director of Exhibitions for work detroit, The University of Michigan School of Art & Design's exhibition space for creative process, located in Detroit's cultural center. He is responsible for helping to create and sustain a dialogue and engagement between the University of Michigan School of Art & Design and the arts communities of Detroit, the United States, and beyond.

As an illustrator / designer, he has provided work for clients such as The New York Times, The Utne Reader, Comedy Central, and Scholastic. He has also worked with WGBH (Boston), Heineken, and Nike. His illustrations have been an integral part of the global eBay brand and, he illustrated the book The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming, which was published by Scholastic and co-authored by Cambria Gordon and Laurie David, the Oscar winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth.

His work has been included in The New York Art Directors Annual, Print, How, and the AIGA Design Annual and has been exhibited in numerous galleries including Gallery Project, The Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, DAM, The Scarab Club, Paint Creek Center for the Arts and, in The Old Federal Building as part of the inaugural ArtPrize event in Grand rapids, MI. His work found purchase within the collection of Valparaiso University as well as many private collections. His work is also included in exhibition catalogues and anthologies including Black Eye and Morose Delectation published by Rotland Press.

Stephen also teaches graphic design/illustration at the College for Creative Studies.

Born in St. Louis, MO, writer Timothy J. Sexton began his writing career at Colorado College where he majored in English. After graduation, he took some time off to travel, before landing work as a copywriter, journalist and translator. He spent four years living and working in Mexico, before moving to Los Angeles, CA to become a screenwriter.

His first produced film - "For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story" (HBO, 2000) - a biopic about the famed Cuban trumpeter who battled the government over suppression of his music, earned Sexton the 2002 Paul Selvin Award from the Writers Guild of America. He followed up with another HBO film, "Boycott" (2001), an exploration of the relationship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott against the backdrop of the Montgomery bus boycott. Sexton next earned a 2003 Emmy Award nomination for his work on "Live From Baghdad" (HBO, 2003), a dramatization of CNN's coverage of the Gulf War in 1991 that was the only American broadcast to come from inside the war zone.

After scripting "The Education of Ron Morris" (HBO, 2003), a true-to-life telling of a top NFL prospect who blows the whistle on mafia involvement in fixing college and professional sports, Sexton delved into the Mexican-American Civil Rights movement with the teleplay for "Walkout" (HBO, 2006), an historical drama depicting the organized walkout of 20,000 students in the Los Angeles school district in 1968 over inadequate education. This protest landed 12 organizers and one teacher abandoned in jail until a lone attorney emerged to represent them in the name of justice.

Sexton next joined forces with acclaimed filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón on "Children of Men" (2006), a futuristic dystopian tale about a former political activist (Clive Owen)-turned-down-and-out bureaucrat who is convinced by a former lover (Julianne Moore) to help transport a young woman (Clare Hope Ashitey) - who just happens to carry the world's only child after all humanity has become infertile - to the fabled Human Project in order to save the future. Sexton and Cuarón earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2008, Tim served as a writer on the documentary "Art & Copy" which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won an Emmy last fall (PBS/ITVS).

While finishing writing Logan's Run for Warner Bros and Silver Pictures, Tim is currently writing Time Crimes, a time-travel piece produced by Steve Zaillian for United Artists, and an historical epic in production in Venezuela based on the life of Simon Bolivar. He is about to commence The Merchant of Shanghai, an epic set in 19th Century China to be directed by Taylor Hackford.

For a recent office birthday party (yeah, we know how sad those can turn out), Calle was presented with a life-size, cardboard Big Bird cut-out with his smiling mug plastered on it. The cut-out was also wearing a crown. It might seem odd, but this was actually the perfect gift for Calle, who in his four-year tenure thus far at BBH could best be described as a "gentle ruler."

And that's actually shorthand for what Calle's name means in his homeland of Sweden. The long version is this: "Gentle Ruler who has magical fingertips and can see through concrete."

But that's only part of the story. Upon graduating from the University of Stockholm with degrees in the History of Music and Multimedia, Calle began his professional career as a producer in 1994. He boldly took a not-too-traditional approach and dove in at EF Education making language-learning CD-ROMs. After two years in the field, he took a leap of faith and founded his own ad agency, Starring (formerly known as Moonwalk) in 1996. He served as the Creative Director at Starring (and also launched his own bicycle company on the side) before moving to the U.S. in 2006 to become Group Creative Director at Fallon Worldwide in Minneapolis.

In 2007, Calle was thrilled to have the opportunity to move to New York City when he joined BBH New York as a Creative Director. Throughout his career Calle has been fortunate to spearhead some of the most creatively challenging accounts in the industry, including Google, AXE, NYC & Company, H&M, LEE Europe.

Calle's creative vision, and patient guidance (see above) and has helped him land numerous creative awards across most media, during his 15 year career in advertising:

Cannes -1 titanium, 5 gold, 6 silver and 6 bronze One Show - 4 gold and 5 silver Clio 2 gold and 2 silver D&AD - 1 yellow pencil and 4 in book Andy's-1 Grandy 2 silver 1 bronze Webbys -3 Webby awards

Beyond all the hardware though, he's simply helped brands grow and tons of creatives get better at their jobs.

Calle and his brother Pelle were featured in Adweek in an article that showcased the most innovative, young people under 40 to watch in the industry. The previous year Creativity Magazine featured Calle in their yearly Creatives Now issue that showcases the best creative teams in the industry. And their recent work for Google Chrome has heavily showcased in creative, tech and trade publications and websites. Calle has been a board member for The Swedish Advertising Association and has been a juror at Cannes, and MSN Creative in London. He also has given a number of lectures over the years on interactive creativity and design.

If you see him, feel free to call him Big Bird.

Chuck is a freelance creative director based in New York City.

Most recently he was ECD at R/GA New York. He has also worked at BBDO, DDB, EuroRSCG, among others. Chuck's work has brought accolades from all of the top advertising shows, including 14 One Show pencils. Business Insider recently listed him as "one of the 37 creatives most lusted after by rival agencies."

In Summer 2012, he opened a new chapter in his career as creative freelancer, a position he hopes will expand his chances to work with forward thinking agencies and clients alike.

Loren's career started on the production side wrangling director chairs for the likes of Joe Pytka, Mark Story and Leslie Dektor. Over the next decade, Loren navigated his way through every aspect behind the scenes in the commercial, network, and film production world.

In the mid 90's Loren helped open up a shop in Seattle, which turned into an office in NYC and he straddled both coasts for 10 years running a production company, with small stable of directors.

Always looking for a challenge, Loren then moved to Australia, taking a job as managing director of a design agency…….and surfing – a lot. He learned quite a bit about web design, optimization, metrics, and why Australians are always so happy.

Loren returned to the states as the Head of Production for Team Detroit where his responsibilities cover much of the content - digital, traditional or otherwise - for Ford. He executive produced Paul Feig's Doug the Puppet for Focus on Facebook, oversaw shoots in Spain and South Africa for Ford's Global and of course, happily, helped manage the production when they hired Chris Malloy to shoot surfers  for the new Explorer.

Loren finds transitioning a traditional agency into a modern age, social communicator to be challenging and exciting work and is looking forward to staying where he is for a while. Even though there's no surf in Detroit. Go figure.

Faris is Chief Innovation Officer at MDC Partners, a network of best in class marketing companies including the highly lauded advertising agencies Crispin Porter + Bogusky and kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners.

He's trying to make everything more awesome, stealing from the engines of innovation, technology and culture, to create innovative solutions for clients and partner agencies.

Previously he was EVP Chief Technology Strategist at McCann-Erickson New York, where he was tasked with helping to work out how brands, people and technology can play better together, developing consumer involved ideas for Nikon, Verizon and Kohl's.