Cory Berger is joining Grey as its first worldwide chief marketing officer. In this new position, Berger will be responsible for driving Grey’s growth across the global network. He will lead the planning, development and execution of the agency’s marketing, reputation management and multinational new business efforts. The goal of this comprehensive, integrated effort is to communicate Grey’s “Famously Effective” brand story and capabilities to all key audiences, internally and externally.
Grey Group Worldwide CEO Michael Houston said, “We’ve established this new position to advance Grey’s borderless way of working in order to seize new growth opportunities on a global basis. Cory is a highly-respected marketer with his finger on the pulse of what clients are looking for. I’m confident he will make our team even more strategic and aggressive in the hunt, energetic in marshalling our resources and focused on becoming a winning organization every time out.”
Berger joins Grey from award-winning independent creative agency, Pereira O’Dell. Over the past six years, as managing director, he established, built and successfully led its New York operation.
Berger played the key role in forging partnerships with brands including Fox Sports, MINI, Realtor.com, General Mills, Blue Apron, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Reebok, Jet.com (part of Walmart), Timberland, New Era and the NBA. Under his leadership, the office achieved six years of consecutive growth, increasing top-line revenue by nearly 40% alone in 2018. He is a big believer in the power of creativity, and in recent years his office has won numerous industry awards including multiple Cannes Lions, Effies, D&ADs, Emmys, Clios and recognition at the Sundance Film Festival.
Earlier in his career, Berger served as VP of business development & client service at Noise, a millennial-focused digital innovation shop that was Facebook’s first agency. He has also held a top post at Momentum, the leading sports and entertainment experiential agency. He began his career at Havas in New York and also worked in strategy at Mother.
Berger said, “I’ve long admired the Grey brand and its history of ‘Famously Effective’ work. Its singular focus of using creativity to solve business problems is one that I believe has never been more relevant and needed. As I talked with Michael and his team about their vision to create the next generation of Grey, it became clear this opportunity was too awesome to pass up.”
This marks another key investment Houston has made to enhance Grey’s creativity and growth. Recently, Javier Campopiano joined as chief creative officer, Grey Europe & Global Clients; Adrian Rossi joined Grey London as creative chairman; and Bernardo Romero joined Grey New York as executive creative director, Health & Wellness, all new positions.
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