.Hi, I'm Dan, a creative/agency/earned/brand leader with deep experience running, winning and bettering important brands.
I’ve worked all sides of the room, from global holding-company agencies to boutiques to building an in-house creative agency. I’m currently running on the earned side as global executive creative director at Campaign’s Agency of the Year, FleishmanHillard.
As the logo buffet up there suggests, I have solid expertise across categories and client cultures. Most of the stuff I led. Some I won. Many I've won things for.
Lately I’ve been overseeing a freakishly diverse range of brands including PepsiCo, Chase, Quaker, Cat, Cisco, Jack Links, Philips, and Purina.
#UNHUMBLEBRAGS
A number 1-rated Super Bowl spot, work in the Advertising Hall of Fame, recognition from Cannes to Clios to Effies, and god bless, a parody on Saturday Night Live.
Most recently, my work's been profiled at SXSW, AdAge:Next and featured on media from NPR to FOX, USA Today to Telemundo, Newsweek to VICE, SNL to Colbert.
SAY HI
danmargulis125@gmail.com
GLAMOURSHOTS
I live in LA with my lovely and talented wife, equally-acclaimed dog, director alter-ego, and sometimes a clown.
M.O.
(The following is written in the third-person, so as to read slightly less me, me, me)
Dan is a tireless thinker and doer. Dan’s exuberant style inspires teams and motivates humans. Dan believes greatness lives at the nexus of insight and instinct, science and story, strategic rigor and creative rebellion. Dan is now regretting writing this in the third person. Feels forced, Dan. For Dan, the work always comes first, and second, but Dan is equally acclaimed at mentoring creatives, building teams and departments, managing accounts, new business pitches, agency recruitment, CMO relationships and the tumult that comes with ever-evolving industry dynamics. Given the choice, Dan is happiest solving the important things, pioneering next big whatevers and hacking culture, data and media to blaze new paths into hearts and minds.
And yes, Dan knows that last part sounds textbook mktg b.s., but it's the god's honest.