jimmie stone

New York, New York, United States

646-642-6112

jimmie@greenteamusa.com

http://www.jimmiestone.com

Jimmie is a multi-dimensional character: international perspective, digitally savvy, trained in architecture and design, a conceptual thinker with strategic focus and big brand experience.
- A team player who understands that brands of the future will have to uncover and communicate their true purpose and how they are advancing society forward in order to sell more products.
- His greatest strength lies in his ability to recognize and motivate a team to find the paradigm that should be shifted, and subsequently distill complex concepts into messages that are simple, beautiful, hopeful and motivate people to act.
- He understands the urgency of waking up to the interconnectedness of our economy, our environment and our well-being.
- An award-winning Creative Director, an adjunct professor at FIT and a devout student of Sun Tzu. Drawing inspiration from Marcel Duchamp, Marshall McLuhan, Tibor Kalman, and his two kids Zoe and Kai.

Experience

New York, New York, United States

Sep 1999 – Present

Green Team

Partner, Chief Creative/Strategy Officer

Green Team is the first US-based strategy and communications agency specializing in Purpose Branding.

- Manage a multidisciplinary team of account managers, writers, art director and designers
- Lead the strategy and creative department.
- Oversee conceptualization, design and production of campaigns across all media.
- Lead new business pitches and client presentations.
- In charge of development and execution of Green team's own creative voice and vision.
- Directed the creation and training of Green Team’s Brand Awakening™ methodology
- Helped train our 3 licensed offices

Clients Include:
Johnson & Johnson
Coca-Cola
National Geographic Society
Environmental Defense
Scottish Tourism Board
LAN Airlines
Mars, Inc.
Lindblad Expeditions
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

New York, New York, United States

Sep 2009 – Present

Fashion Institute of Technology

Adjunct Professor

-Teaching advertising to upper level students.
Classes taught: Concept Development, Art Direction, Professional Practices, Television

1995 – 1998

McCann Erickson

Senior Art Director

-Creation and art direction of advertising campaigns, all medias including collateral materials for international corporate brands such as:
Nestlé
Coca Cola,
General Motors

1994 – 1995

Unidad Publicitaria

Creative Director

-Managed the creative team.
-Oversaw new business pitches, diving deep into a national culture through the creation of advertising campaigns for quintessentially Uruguayan brands such as:
Yerba Canarias
Channel 4
Alfajores Portezuelo

Awards & Merits

United Nations Integrity in Advertising
National Design Review, ID Magazine
Gran Campana de Oro, Uruguay
First Green Effie, Final Juror
Minneapolis College of Art + Design (MCAD),- speaker
UCDA Going Green Design Conference - speaker
Art Directors Club NY – ACT Responsible Show - speaker Harvard
Opportunity Green Business Conference – panel moderator
COLAB Syracuse University – speaker
UK International Marketing Festival – speaker

Education

1998 – 1999

Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale

B.S. Graphic Design, Advertising

Activities and Societies: Best Portfolio, Advertising Club President,Golden Sparkle Award, Dean’s List, President’s Ambassador

1992 – 1994

Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale Edit

A.D. Visual Communication, Advertising

Activities and Societies: Dean’s List

1997 – Present

The Art of Strategy, Sun Tzu

Student, The Tao of Strategy

For over a decade I have been studying this book, and it has profoundly shaped my though process and clearly influenced the way I approach solutions.

Languages

Spanish (Native), English (Advanced)