Desmond is an ad guy with 20 years of experience split between the general market and African American market.

At Young and Rubicam, Chiat Day, TBWA, BBDO, Gotham, Bates and NW Ayer he’s done award winning work for US Postal Service; STP, Dr. Pepper, Adidas; Reebok, TV Guide, US West, Miller, and Lady Footlocker among others.

As ECD at SpikeDDB for 10 years, Desmond led and won pitches for accounts such as State Farm, NFL, Chanel, TNT, TBS, Alltel, Jaguar, Ambi, Royal Caribbean, Frito lay, Foxwoods, DNC, Pepsi, Daily News, Topps and helped launch the Chanel brand “CHANCE.” His work at Spike has been featured in Communication Arts, Effies, Pinnacle, Applied Arts, Radio Mercury, Adweek’s best spots (5 times), AP Wire Service’s Funniest Super bowl spot (‘04) for Pepsi and TNT’s Funniest Superbowl spot (’05)

Desmond is currently a Senior VP and Executive Creative Director at Globalhue advertising. He also sits on the board of the AdCouncil CRC and Partnership for a Drug Free America.

In other endeavors, Desmond worked as a public high school Biology teacher for two years in East New York, Brooklyn. He also wrote and directed an independent movie, “A Day in Black and White” which was bought by HBO. In film, he’s been nominated for the Gordon Parks Award in directing, Variety Magazine’s top 50 creatives to watch, the Avignon award for short film and runner up in the IFP screenwriting contest. As a playwright/director, his first full-length play “Stockholm/Brooklyn” won the audience award at the Downtown Theater festival and was picked up by the Public Theater.

With more than 18 years of experience in design and branding in Los Angeles and New York, Carol contributes her design efforts to Wong Doody Crandall Wiener as Design Director.

Her projects include work for clients such as: Cedars-Sinai, Hollywood Bowl, LA Phil, Activate Drinks, Autodesk and Red Bull. Prior to joining WDCW, Carol had her own design studio, Konoble Design, focusing on identity design for Ridley Scott and Associates and theMusic Center. Before that she was senior designer at Ph.D in Santa Monica and design lead at Hello Design in Culver City.

While in New York, she held design positions at Slover and Company and Bloomingdale’s Special Projects division. Her work has been acknowledged with awards from Communication Arts, The Type Directors Club and the AIGA.

Brian Brooker is a nationally recognized creative leader in the advertising industry. His work as writer and creative director has helped build brands such as Rolling Stone, PGA Tour, Southwest Airlines and Sonic Drive In. He’s won hundreds of prestigious awards, including Communication Arts, One Show, Cannes, D&AD, Archive, Clio, Andy’s, National ADDY’s, Mercury and Effies. He recently served as judge for Communication Arts.

In addition to delivering stellar creative, Brian utilized his business building skills in his former position as CEO of Barkley, Kansas City, MO. He’s written articles for Ad Age, served on the AAAA board, spoken at their events and developed a Creativity Symposium in which he attracted a roster of prominent creative thinkers who share his belief that “great ideas can come from anywhere.”

Currently Brian serves as Chief Creative Officer at Bernstein-Rein, helping shape brands like McDonald’s, Farmland and Family Dollar. Brian believes in a work hard, play hard philosophy. When he isn’t running marathons, he plays in a weekly table tennis league. He also loves family, chasing his kids around the dining room table, a nice glass of red wine, writing poetry, watching Bruce Lee movies and listening to Bob Dylan – even if he can’t always make out the words.

A native of Northern Ireland, Neil joined AKQA’s London office in 1997 as a founding member of their creative team. For the seven years that followed, Neil worked on digital advertising assignments for all of AKQA’s major clients including Microsoft, Orange, BMW and Sainsbury's.

In 2004, AKQA tapped Neil to help establish the interactive team in the company’s San Francisco office. For the past 7 years, Neil has been the Group Creative Director on accounts including Nike, Visa, Target and Autodesk.

Neil has helped AKQA become one of the most awarded agencies in the world, and his work has been internationally awarded and published. Neil has also served on a number of advertising and design award juries.

With a history made up of almost exclusively digital work, Darrell has spent his time in the trenches of production as well as creative. Darrell has been considered a bridge builder between concept and development, with 0's and 1's as the cornerstone of everything in his portfolio.

As Technology Experience Lead at co:collective, Darrell focuses on brand story and product development through a technical lens. This expertise is also applied to his work with Hyper Island as an educator with their executive education and long-term programs.

Prior to joining Co:, Darrell was the founding partner of MIR, a mobile and emerging platforms creative shop with studios in New York City and San Francisco, where he led creative on a variety of original mobile and social engagements for Fortune 100 brands.

Mike has had the good fortune to work under some of our industry’s greatest teachers. With four very formative years working under Luke Sullivan at WestWayne (now 22Squared) in Atlanta, Mike’s raw talent was nurtured into national award-winning ability.

Mike went on to spend two years directly under Alex Bogusky at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Miami. This was pre-Boulder, a time when there were only about 25 creatives at CPB. Mike produced groundbreaking work for MINI, Truth, IKEA, Virgin-Atlantic, Google, Molson, Bell and Shimano.

Mike was then hired by Mike Hughes at The Martin Agency where he currently works under John Norman as a VP/Creative Director on Mentos, UP2U Gum, The Smithsonian and Stijl Cycles.

Mike has also moonlighted as a teacher at the Creative Circus in Atlanta for three years, and taught an Advanced Concepts class at VCU’s Brandcenter for two years. He continues to lecture as a guest at Brandcenter. Mike’s work has been awarded in all major award shows, but he is most proud of winning one of the first One Show Pencils for Digital work in 2004, for the MINI Robot Campaign.