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Joe Grimaldi CEO Joe was once a rock musician, but these days he spends his time pushing people to do exceptional work for our company and clients. He creates an environment conducive to personal excellence, entrepreneurship and collaboration. A 34-year industry veteran, Joe started his career at Benton & Bowles and Ted Bates in New York. And since joining Mullen 29 years ago, he has helped it grow 1,100%.X Close
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Alex Leikikh President Alex motivates our agency to be our clients’ richest source of business-driving ideas. Prior to Mullen, Alex honed his skills at Leo Burnett and Fallon on Philip Morris, BMW, Garmin, and Equinox Fitness. He even helped guide United Airlines during the post-September 11 period of extreme crisis in the travel industry. Alex has become quite good at managing chaos both at work and at home, where he and his wife Jennifer are raising three girls and a boy.X Close
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Mark Wenneker Chief Creative Officer Mark is the kind of guy who is always trying to shake things up. And that’s pretty much what he’s done here. Under his guidance, Mullen was recently named one of the most innovative companies in America according to Fast Company magazine. He’s also attracted brands that share his entrepreneurial zeal, those of which include JetBlue, Zappos, Grey Goose, Fage, iRobot, Google and many more. Before coming to Mullen, Mark was at Goodby Silverstein and Partners where he made famous work for brands like Hyundai, Saturn and Comcast. He has three girls, and one very patient and understanding wife.X Close
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Kristen Cavallo Chief Strategy Officer Kristen leads a brand planning and performance strategy team that believes the most successful brands are useful, likeable and interesting. They understand that in today’s world, the key to breaking through is for brands to focus on becoming valuable conversation topics, not interrupting existing ones. Kristen has led strategic brand planning for numerous major, global brands, including BMW, VW, Saab, Timberland, Kohler, Coca-Cola and Miller Brewing, among others. X Close
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John Moore Chief Media Officer John leads Mullen’s branded media arm, dubbed mediahub. He has built an operation that focuses on embracing, accelerating and leveraging change. This change includes recently creating a dedicated mobile unit and hiring a creative media director to ensure that content and distribution are always working in unison. John has been in the business for over 20 years and has worked on several top-tier brands including Wendy’s, H&R Block, Converse, Monster.com, General Motors, NEC and Whirlpool.X Close
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Sheila Leyne Director of Public Relations/Social Influence Sheila has built Mullen’s PR/Social Influence practice into the largest of its kind in the context of a full-service advertising agency. The group focuses on five sectors: Consumer Marketing, Technology, Financial, Corporate Reputation and Nutrition/Healthcare. Sheila’s team understands the broader context of brand building. Not only are her people superb publicists, but they also know how to employ a wide spectrum of tools and techniques to help companies achieve their business goals.X Close
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Edward Boches Chief Innovation Officer One of Mullen’s original partners, Edward has helped define the agency’s creative standards, established its PR group, integrated digital into all agency operations and launched our social influence practice. Currently, he focuses on emerging tech, social platforms and changing consumer media habits to develop innovative ideas for clients and for the agency’s ongoing transformation. Edward writes the Ad Age Power 150 blog Creativity_Unbound; lectures at BU and at Boulder Digital Works.X Close
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Paul Slack Chief Financial Officer Paul provides our clients and management with coherent and timely information and advice on financial and personnel matters. This includes our technology, facility, human resources, accounting, policies and procedures. But Paul isn’t all about numbers—he loves working with creative, intelligent people.X Close
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Stephen Goldblatt Chief Digital Officer Adweek recently recognized Stephen as one of the Top Creative Minds in Digital and we couldn’t agree more. He’s done a lot of leading-edge work for Facebook, Zynga and Skittles in the past three years. He came to us from EVB in San Francisco, where he was a partner and executive creative director and helped build the agency into an Advertising Age Standout Shop. Prior to EVB he was with Goodby Silverstein, leading the agency’s famous “The Computer Is Personal Again” work for Hewlett Packard. At Mullen Stephen now leads a group of 100+ digital wizards — creative technologists, user experience specialists and developers — across the agency’s Boston and San Francisco offices.X Close
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Dave Weist Executive Creative Director Over the years Dave has been able to apply his writing talents to purpose-driven brands like Volkswagen, HUMMER, Cadillac, TIAA CREF, RED, JetBlue, Zappos, NOOK by Barnes and Noble, U.S. Cellular, Google and many more. He’s proud of the fact that he gets results (having worked on the most successful Cadillac campaign in history) and he doesn’t mind winning awards, either, with every international award to his credit, including the Cannes Grand Prix. Dave believes in the team concept and loves to work across channels but he doesn’t believe in funny little quips at the end of bios. Whoops, looks like we broke his rule there. X Close
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Tim Vaccarino Executive Creative Director Tim is the consummate art director and he’s been able to hone his craft on forward-thinking brands like Volkswagen, HUMMER, Cadillac, TIAA CREF, U.S. Cellular, Google, JetBlue, Zappos, NOOK by Barnes and Noble, Acura and many more. A tinkerer at heart, Tim loves to make beautiful things with an array of talented people. He sees that as the great privilege of this job and the results have shown themselves in every international award, including AICP where his work is on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art. Vac (as he likes to be called) lives in Plymouth, MA with his wife and three children. Here, he prefers to keep it real and never speak of himself in the third person. X Close
Joe Grimaldi CEO Joe was once a rock musician, but these days he spends his time pushing people to do exceptional work for our company and clients. He creates an environment conducive to personal excellence, entrepreneurship and collaboration. A 34-year industry veteran, Joe started his career at Benton & Bowles and Ted Bates in New York. And since joining Mullen 29 years ago, he has helped it grow 1,100%.X Close
Alex Leikikh President Alex motivates our agency to be our clients’ richest source of business-driving ideas. Prior to Mullen, Alex honed his skills at Leo Burnett and Fallon on Philip Morris, BMW, Garmin, and Equinox Fitness. He even helped guide United Airlines during the post-September 11 period of extreme crisis in the travel industry. Alex has become quite good at managing chaos both at work and at home, where he and his wife Jennifer are raising three girls and a boy.X Close
Mark Wenneker Chief Creative Officer Mark is the kind of guy who is always trying to shake things up. And that’s pretty much what he’s done here. Under his guidance, Mullen was recently named one of the most innovative companies in America according to Fast Company magazine. He’s also attracted brands that share his entrepreneurial zeal, those of which include JetBlue, Zappos, Grey Goose, Fage, iRobot, Google and many more. Before coming to Mullen, Mark was at Goodby Silverstein and Partners where he made famous work for brands like Hyundai, Saturn and Comcast. He has three girls, and one very patient and understanding wife.X Close
Kristen Cavallo Chief Strategy Officer Kristen leads a brand planning and performance strategy team that believes the most successful brands are useful, likeable and interesting. They understand that in today’s world, the key to breaking through is for brands to focus on becoming valuable conversation topics, not interrupting existing ones. Kristen has led strategic brand planning for numerous major, global brands, including BMW, VW, Saab, Timberland, Kohler, Coca-Cola and Miller Brewing, among others. X Close
John Moore Chief Media Officer John leads Mullen’s branded media arm, dubbed mediahub. He has built an operation that focuses on embracing, accelerating and leveraging change. This change includes recently creating a dedicated mobile unit and hiring a creative media director to ensure that content and distribution are always working in unison. John has been in the business for over 20 years and has worked on several top-tier brands including Wendy’s, H&R Block, Converse, Monster.com, General Motors, NEC and Whirlpool.X Close
Sheila Leyne Director of Public Relations/Social Influence Sheila has built Mullen’s PR/Social Influence practice into the largest of its kind in the context of a full-service advertising agency. The group focuses on five sectors: Consumer Marketing, Technology, Financial, Corporate Reputation and Nutrition/Healthcare. Sheila’s team understands the broader context of brand building. Not only are her people superb publicists, but they also know how to employ a wide spectrum of tools and techniques to help companies achieve their business goals.X Close
Edward Boches Chief Innovation Officer One of Mullen’s original partners, Edward has helped define the agency’s creative standards, established its PR group, integrated digital into all agency operations and launched our social influence practice. Currently, he focuses on emerging tech, social platforms and changing consumer media habits to develop innovative ideas for clients and for the agency’s ongoing transformation. Edward writes the Ad Age Power 150 blog Creativity_Unbound; lectures at BU and at Boulder Digital Works.X Close
Paul Slack Chief Financial Officer Paul provides our clients and management with coherent and timely information and advice on financial and personnel matters. This includes our technology, facility, human resources, accounting, policies and procedures. But Paul isn’t all about numbers—he loves working with creative, intelligent people.X Close
