LEADERSHIP
Before Cosmic Charlie, I spent 15 years building my last agency, Madwell, from zero into a 185-person shop across Brooklyn, Colorado, and Hong Kong. You learn a lot running something that big for that long, including what you'd do differently. Which is why I created Cosmic Charlie.
"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right."
I started my career with a Sharpie and paper pad at a small shop, learning from the great Sal DeVito. It was old-school: all-nighters, beveled boards, and one lesson drilled in early: the idea is everything.
Since then, I’ve worked across New York agencies big and small, including Ogilvy, TBWA, McCann, and Grey, and won multiple awards for creative effectiveness along the way.
Now, as Partner and Head of Creative at Cosmic Charlie, I’m building the agency I always wanted to join.
My life’s work began at age 5, when my fingertips touched a keyboard for the first time. Since then, it’s been a wild ride of non-stop learning, building, deploying, and bugfixing. I am endlessly fascinated with technology and have played every role on a tech team across dozens of projects of all shapes and sizes.
With the advent of the AI revolution, I’m feeling like I’m 5 again, and am imbuing it all into Cosmic Charlie :)
I’m a planner in all things. Whether it’s building contingencies for my contingencies or staging elaborate scavenger hunts, my brain is always thinking through every possible eventuality.
It’s annoying when I’m trying to fall asleep, but professionally, it pays off. My career spans fifteen years in video and post-production, most recently as Creative Operations Lead at OLIVER Agency, where the job was essentially the same: orchestrate a complicated, multi-stage thing, get everyone to the payoff, and try not to lose anyone along the way.
At a giant agency, spotting what should be built is easy. Getting to build it is a different sport. Cosmic Charlie gave me the chance to build from the ground up, and I jumped.
In my "downtime," I play ringmaster to my 6-year-old twin boys. My brain doesn’t really do "off." It does "differently on."
ABOUT
Cosmic Charlie is a full-service independent ad agency based in Brooklyn.
We believe the best way to achieve results by harnessing the infinite power of creativity. Not just in the ideas themselves, but in how we get to them. Because the process of making great work should be as brave and flexible as creativity itself.
We don't fear fear. We welcome it. The darkness of the unknown is our guiding light. A signpost that we're heading the right way, even when the path isn't fully visible. Full speed ahead, we move fearlessly into the future.
What We Do
- •Brand Strategy
- •Creative Campaigns
- •Visual Identity Systems
- •Content & Production
- •Digital & Social
- •Experiential
- •AI-Enabled Research & Testing
- •Cultural Partnerships
EXPERIENCE
A few of the brands we’ve worked on along the way.
A few of the brands we’ve worked on along the way.
RECOGNITION
Awards that got us here.
Awards that got us here.
