Brandon Solis has joined Grey as executive director of social & connections, a new position. He will report to John Patroulis, worldwide chief creative officer, and be based at Grey New York’s flagship headquarters.
Solis will play an integral role at Grey strategically, creatively and operationally in this newly-established position. He will oversee the creation of social media, digital content, and influencer marketing. In addition, he will lend his expertise to the agency’s global network in the development of future-facing platforms and leadership in the discipline.
“Brandon has helped transform how ideas come to life–and how marketers communicate–by placing social and comms planning at the heart of a creative and strategic approach that meshes perfectly with ours,” Patroulis said. “We’re excited to have him join as we continue to expand the horizons of the work that resonates in culture to grow our clients’ business.”
Solis has brought his expertise, a singular blend of culture, channel, and creative strategy to both global and innovation agencies across the world. Most recently, he worked at Eleven, Inc., a San Francisco-based integrated agency. Earlier at R/GA New York, he contributed to the success of such clients as Verizon, Samsung, Uber and Nike building bridges to platforms like TikTok, Twitch, Google and Facebook, elevating their social presence.
Along the way, Solis served as global strategy director for L’Oréal Paris while at McCann Worldgroup, leading integrated campaigns in over 20 countries. He gained experience at BBH, Code and Theory, and Barton F. Graf in New York.
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