Josh Gross and Pedro Pérez have been promoted to co-chief creative officers at Energy BBDO. They succeed Andrés Ordóñez who left to become CCO of FCB Chicago. Gross and Pérez were most recently executive creative directors.
Tonise Paul, president and CEO, Energy BBDO said, “For the past five years, Josh and Pedro have been the driving force of brand-building, business-driving work for many of our clients including Mars Wrigley, Pearle Vision, Avocados from Mexico, the American Egg Board and more. Their passion for the work, creative craftsmanship, focus on business outcomes and embodiment of the agency’s core values make them perfect to assume their new roles.” She added, “We’ve had a mutually rewarding past several years with Andrés and wish him only the best.”
Gross and Pérez are best known for award-winning campaigns like Extra Gum’s “Sarah & Juan,” 5 Gum’s “The 85-Year-Old Regret,” Pearle Vision’s “Ben’s Glasses” and Bayer Aspirin’s “HeroSmiths.” They have also been integral leaders in winning new business for the agency including The American Egg Board, Avocados from Mexico, MillerCoors’ Cape Line and Redd’s Apple Ale and, most recently, Champion Sportswear. Throughout their careers, they have won a wide range of awards from Cannes Lions to D&AD and One Show Pencils, Clios and more. Prior to joining Energy BBDO, Gross was an associate creative director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Pérez was a creative director at Badillo Saatchi & Saatchi in Puerto Rico.
The duo will partner closely with ECDs Susan Treacy and Ioana Filip, who have more recently joined Energy BBDO from FCB and MRM/McCann Bucharest, respectively.
“Josh and Pedro are gifted creative thinkers who will help continue to lead the way forward for our clients,” said David Lubars, chairman of BBDO North America and CCO of BBDO Worldwide.
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