Adam Kahn has been promoted to chief creative officer of Grey Midwest. He has served as executive creative director since 2015. Kahn’s promotion was announced by Grey’s worldwide CCO, John Patroulis.
Grey Midwest, a future-facing, end-to-end marketing hub located in Cincinnati, debuted in April 2018. At Grey Midwest, Kahn oversees all creative development, helps to set and implement the creative vision, recruit top talent, and guide new business creative efforts.
Tony Desjardins, managing director of Grey Midwest, said of Kahn, “His dynamic leadership has helped us build a contemporary, fully-integrated creative agency with digital, data and commerce at its core. His desire to make Cincinnati a creative destination continues to transform the agency.”
Kahn’s diverse background in film, TV, and game development has contributed to his award-winning work including recognition at the Cannes Lions, Effies and Webby Awards.
Kahn began his advertising career at Grey New York in 2006. Along the way, he has served in creative roles at Rapp and mcgarrybowen where he led Verizon’s Branded Entertainment business, working with Lady Gaga and Beyonce, and created a mobile phone game with NASA which debuted on the Cannes Lions Innovation Stage in 2015. He joined POSSIBLE Cincinnati in 2015, which has become part of Grey.
He has worked with such blue chip clients as Diageo, Pringles, Procter & Gamble, Essilor of America, Mercedes-Benz, Walmart, Pepsico, Verizon and Maserati.
He got his start in the mailroom at The William Morris Agency in New York before a stint in Hollywood.
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More