Here are the fourteen seconds of bullet points you’ll use to hire
your next Creative Director.
- Big agency experience.
- Built agencies from scratch.
- Startup and corporate experience.
- Can build and lead creative teams.
- Unique and fearless thinking.
- Wise execution.
- Shows up early gets things done.
I’m Chris Greta
and you’ve already spent twice the average time on my CV.
Seven seconds is all most resumes ever get and you’re still reading.
Maybe you’re on to something.
I’m a Creative Director. I’ve started and run successful agencies and worked in-house to build highly effective creative departments.
I’ve managed creatives and sold incredible ideas to CEO’s and consumers.
Now we’re over thirty seconds.
Let’s see what clients say.
Jeff Connally
Entrepreneur and Author
”I have engaged Chris to brand and build the marketing platform for several companies I have started & run.
His ability to distill a complex product or service down to its essence and create powerfully impactive messaging has been key to my success.”
Lee Thomas
Digital Transformation Leader
“People say Chris thinks out of the box. Not so!
In Chris’ world, there is no box.
Only infinite creative solutions he seems so adept at seeing. Chris fits no archetype I’ve ever known. He simultaneously makes and breaks all the rules. His ideas are so simple and distilled that you slap your head and think, ‘Well, duh! That’s the obvious way to do that.” But you wouldn’t have ever thought of it yourself. That’s why you hire Chris.”
Bruce Flory
CMO
“Over the years, I have needed the expertise of a marketing and creative design partner to help launch new products and even companies.
One person I always turn to is Chris Greta.
Chris is an amazingly creative individual who has developed a methodology that quickly drives creative results. Chris’ advice and creative proposals never fail to squarely address the marketing challenge and deliver unique and high-impact results.”
Susan Tormullen
CMO HomeAway
“I keep coming back to Chris. He helped me at Silicon Labs, HomeAway Software/Expedia and two start-up software companies. He always gets up to speed quickly, asks the right questions, and delivers great thinking.”
Emily Lynch
CMO
“Working with Chris is an exceptional and unique experience. He has a process of his own that allows him to create a fascinating life behind any brand. He is naturally curious, thorough, a great listener as well as a great question asker – all of which lead him to bring fresh insights to the teams he works with. Chris’s ability to elevate and simplify any brand while having empathy towards all of the work that has already been put into it is truly a rare and unmeasurable skill. I will never go through a branding exercise without consulting him!”
John Doyle
CMO
“Chris Greta is probably the best Creative Director I’ve worked with in my career. (I know, that’s saying a lot.)
Whether it’s creative, branding, or positioning, Chris is superb.
I’ve been consistently impressed by his originality and ability to crystalize often fuzzy marketing concepts into unique designs, strategies, and campaigns. Chris is as good as they get, and I highly recommend him.”
Jerry Phillips
CEO, Author, Speaker, NineRuns
“Chris worked with our team to develop our new brand most creatively, and uniquely I’ve been associated with. He is a creative genius.
He listened and absorbed our service solutions in a very short window, boiled them down to the actual customer benefits, then created a branded product offering that we have moved forward with. The uniqueness is in the process he executes, the speed at which he does it, and the unbelievable creativity he offers. It can’t be duplicated.
We will use Chris’s skills again and again.”
Julie Anglin
Global Brand Director Solarwinds
“I brought Chris into Solarwinds for a week to help develop a campaign for one of our products. It turned out that the work he created was so good that product managers started clamoring for his help on their products.
This went on for a whole year!”
Agencies I Have Built
THE AD RANCH
Award-winning agency that became a staple of the Austin startup culture.
THE FRENZY GROUP
Lead gen agency for enterprise technology.
SLINGROCK
Digital agency and early UX adopter.
Agencies I Have Worked For
OGILVY
BBDO DIRECT
M2K
STARTUPS AS CCO
eRELEVANCE
TOWNY
An exhaustive list of clients:
MolsonCoors Microsoft Ball Corp Tantau Greenling The Disney Channel Fringe Benefit Group Rod & Gun Resources Acton MBA Outernet Dazel Trilogy CMIT Solutions The Lead Dogs Tivoli Ventix Expresiv Surgient Emerson Access Mediquip Catholic Life Insurance Longmont Hospital StoredIQ Packet Design Colorado Springs Utilities Academy School District Worn by Gods NineRuns Adlucent Austin360 Sulzer Tabu Covasoft Crocs Transplace Tucker Valero Energy Grow Financial Headspring Mobile Powell Kimbia Rackspace Datical Alliance Data Invincea TDECU McInnis Cooper Miracle Foundation Towny A Glimmer of Hope HeroBracelets Cort Austin Ad Fed Ballet Austin Cisco City of Austin Cox Interactive Dell Framework Healthplan Hire.com LGE IBM Luminex Metrowerks Mission Critical Software Motorola Myriad Oracle Pearson Pervasive Portnox Stratfor Sun Microsystems University of Texas Afflow Ventix White Glove Healthcare Solarwinds Austin Technology Council Fox and Seeker Distilled Goods
You’re probably up to three minutes by now.
You scanned the quotes and lingered on a few. Then you scanned the client list. By now you’re thinking, “If I hire Chris, I’ll save a lot of time on those
other interviews.”
Good thinking.
Let’s meet.
Chris Greta
Creative Director