The Minds Behind the Magic: Leadership Lessons

Gain insight from successful creative leaders in the interactive industry through our series of interviews with Founders, CEOs, Managers and Directors of top-performing agencies.

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“Always elevate your team ahead of yourself”

Vancouver, Nov 15th, 2018 Major Tom has recently been subject to big changes, with the appointment of Lyn Bryan as the new CEO and Miles Sellyn as the new President. In an interview with TIA, Bryan and Sellyn explain the details of their new roles, looking back at their past experiences and their perspectives for the positions. At the same time, they talk about the agency's future and the challenges...

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What will the agency of the future look like?

Brian Byer, VP of Content and Commerce Practice Lead, has been working at New-York based agency BFM for over 5 years creating forward-thinking strategies for the agency and its clients.

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“We have very smart people spending time on building the next best tech”

Brian Byer, VP and General Manager, has been working at New-York based agency BFM for over 5 years creating forward-thinking strategies for the agency and its clients.

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What to do if you fall in love with dynamic data

David Thomson, Founder Momentum Design Lab is a digital design agency driven to improve the human relationship with technology.

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“Clients come with specific objectives and it’s our job to deliver custom solutions”

Isadora Marlow-Morgan, Founder, Isadora Agency provides transformational visual identity, enterprise web products and digital marketing for B2B and B2C enterprises

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“The root of every project is the brainstorming session”

Alexei Rezvanov, Founder, M2H Agency is based in Moscow and focuses on three major products — branding, web & mobile design and development.

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“Team strength and maturity encourages creativity”

Marc Adam, CEO, Canada-based digital agency Nixa, always seeks to innovate offering the highest quality of web development services.

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What does it take to hire the right talent?

Ken Braun, President, Lounge Lizard, a digital and web design agency since 1998, with offices in New York, Long Island and Los Angeles.

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Nicolás Mejías: “Clients always look for your previous work”

Nicolás Mejías, co-Founder & Director of P3Design, an independent digital agency from Buenos Aires, that provides support in all areas and stages of a digital project since 2002.

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“Online economy is becoming more geared towards millennials”

Roman Yoffe, CEO, Absolute Web Services, an E-Commerce solutions and full-service development agency, based in Miami since 1999.

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The best-case scenario is develop the client’s business

Mexico City, Feb 8th, 2018 Based in Mexico City, Masclicks is a fully-based digital agency with a deep knowledge of the Latin American market. Service attitude, right on time and full availability of an experienced team, are some of the basic features of the agency. Headed by its CEO Luis Badillo, he reviews agency's work structure and its team highlights, giving an insight on the process of developing and motivating...

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Brand story, the key to success in content marketing

New York, Nov 14th, 2017

Founded in 2013, AVEX has been focusing on creativity, strategy and technology in various fields including: fashion, e-commerce, food & beverage and finance. But according to its Founder, John Surdakowski, the company has been kept small by design, tending to only take on select projects that can bring value to work.

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“Once you have creativity pushing your exploration, the possibilities become infinite”

Santa Monica, Oct 5th, 2017

After working in film and television for 15 years, Allen Martinez founded Noble Digital in 2012 to create dynamic videos and online marketing campaigns to help grow businesses. He has been recognized with multiple awards for his work and has created national campaigns for some of the largest global brands.

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Passion, skills and experience, the keys for a successful design

Los Angeles, Sep 21st, 2017

While studying graphic design, Vasile Tiplea was already working in order to get early experience through freelance work. Website design and digital arts became his main strength and that lead to his first full time job as a designer. But it all changed when Tiplea resigned to his job and started Creative27.

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“We are a team hungry to learn and improve ourselves”

Singapore, Sep 15th, 2017 Sport marketing and management was Jeffrey Lim’s initial focus of work, helping big organizations on their messages. NGO’s followed, taking charge of new media and marketing. Nevertheless, it all changed when taking over the role of General Manager at Carbon Interactive, an award-winning digital and creative agency. With a talented team, the agency develops websites and apps and creates compelling content....

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Ken Braun: “We are ego-free at Lounge Lizard”

Ken Braun, Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Lounge Lizard, a web design company with offices in NYC, Long Island and Los Angeles.

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Blurring the boundaries between digital fiction and reality

David Robustelli, Founder and Head of Digital, CapitolaVR, Amsterdam-based agency leader in design and development of VR and AR productions.

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Bruno Gavino: “We built a team of strong individuals”

Bruno Gavino, CEO and Founder, Codedesign, a data-driven digital marketing agency founded in 2015 in Lisbon, specialized in white label marketing solutions.

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David Martin answers Fantasy’s design ‘what if’ questions

David Martin, Founder and CEO Fantasy is the world famous award-winning UX and UI Design Agency since 1999 with offices in New York and San Francisco.

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How to have an ‘anything-can-be-done’ attitude and do anything!

New York, February 3rd, 2017

Chris Sullivan and Guy Pieres founded Kworq at the end of November 2011. They had known each other for almost a decade and, after finding they shared solid work ethics and a ‘anything-can-be-done’ attitude

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