Amber Guild is joining Grey’s flagship office in New York as CEO. Grey worldwide CEO Michael Houston had served in that capacity, holding a dual worldwide and NY CEO role for the past two years.
Guild has been a pathbreaking executive in the advertising, publishing and digital media industries for the past two decades. Most recently, she has served in the senior leadership of The New York Times as president of the T Brand portfolio and a prime mover in its global advertising business since 2017.
“Amber has built great brands and businesses across every discipline from advertising and design to social and experiential marketing,” Houston said. “Her experience running businesses at the intersection of creativity and culture make her a natural to lead our growing flagship office. I look forward to seeing her apply her unique skills to deliver the next generation of Famously Effective ideas for our clients.”
Guild will partner with Justine Armour, chief creative officer of Grey New York, and an accomplished senior team, to lead the office.
“Amber’s history as an innovator and marketing influencer speaks for itself. Her accomplishments leading T Brand have expanded the boundaries of advertising,” Armour said. “She is a champion of great ideas and diverse talent and her warmth and vision brings out the best in clients and colleagues alike. I can’t wait to partner with her and see what she brings to Grey New York.”
Innovator and marketing influencer
As president of the pioneering T Brand at The New York Times, Guild led global business units including the branded content studio; experiential agency; influencer marketing agency and consulting unit.
She spearheaded the transformation of the traditional advertising department into a strategic, client-first model. T Brand creative and editorial teams collaborated with clients to lead their brands to engage in culture and conversations that were meaningful to their audiences.
Guild has been an advocate for systemic change in the creative industry to ensure a more equitable and just workplace. Most recently, she co-led the The Times’ Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy. This project outlined the importance of a how a diverse workforce, energized by an inclusive culture, will positively impact the work and therefore the bottom line.
Earlier in her career, Guild held high-level leadership positions at The Martin Agency, Collins and T3. She began her career at TBWA/Chiat/Day, Ogilvy and Saatchi & Saatchi.
Guild has served as a board member of Saturday Morning, the 3% Movement, Africa Seed and the VCU Brandcenter.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More