Hello

We’re on a mission to work with the world’s most innovative marketers.

The biggest threat to business isn’t rejection: it’s indifference.

At least half the stuff we’ve worked on with them is not traditional advertising.”— JetBlue Client

Everyone in the agency is equally adept at talking about all disciplines.” — JetBlue Client

They really have
everything — creative
and analytics… — Zappos.com Client

We’re Mullen. Proud (yet humble) to be recognized among the elite and most innovative marketing organizations in the world.

Our philosophy is Unbound – we harness the power of creativity, technology, media and community to help our clients achieve their greatest ambitions in a post-digital, consumer-controlled world. We believe the biggest threat to brands isn’t rejection, but rather indifference, so we set out to make our clients’ brands a productive part of consumer lives and to make spending time with those brands worthwhile.

Culture

Mullen’s culture is entirely about limitless possibilities and a relentless belief in a future that is bigger than the past. It’s how we started our company. It’s how we built it. It’s how we continue to evolve and innovate. Check out the video above to see the latest creations in the Mullen innovation lab.

Clients

We’re fortunate to work with a number of courageous, thought-leader brands. These are clients who make us better and push us farther, who are eager to take risks, who want to do things that have never been done before.

  • Acura
  • ’47 Brand
  • adidas
  • American Diabetes Association
  • American Greetings
  • Barnes & Noble/NOOK
  • Bose
  • Century 21
  • Capital One
  • Constant Contact
  • EmblemHealth
  • Ernst & Young
  • FAGE
  • Foxwoods Resort Casino
  • Google
  • Grain Foods Foundation
  • Honest Tea
  • iRobot
  • JetBlue Airways
  • LivingSocial
  • MassMutual Financial Group
  • Match.com
  • National Geographic Channels
  • Olympus
  • Sovereign/Santander
  • The Stanley Works
  • Timberland
  • Tropicana Trop50
  • U.S. Cellular
  • U.S. Department of Defense
  • U.S. Food & Drug Administration
  • Zappos

Leadership

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Taylor Bryant EVP, Managing Director Taylor honed his skills in marketing working with CPG, technology, financial services and telecommunications clients. His passion lies in deconstructing brands, digging into customer mindsets and developing strategies to reposition brands in transition. He’s led strategic initiatives for clients including McDonald's, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Pillsbury, Levi's, Timberland and Nintendo. Taylor has two kids at home, so taming the dynamic marketing landscape feels like a walk in the park. X  Close
  • Jason Black EVP, Executive Creative Director Jason is a digitally-savvy creative leader and a born nonconformist who believes that an idea can only be great if it serves a clear purpose. He stimulates transformational thinking and drives collaboration across all communications disciplines. Jason brings a diverse client experience to Mullen, including Unilever, Nintendo, La Quinta Inns & Suites, T.J.Maxx, Alaska Airlines, Men's Wearhouse, FOX Sports and MGM Entertainment.X  Close
  • John Fitzgerald President John is a passionate change agent and has learned that a great client/agency relationship is about people, passion and pride in shared accomplishments. He’s held senior management and board-level positions with Ketchum Communications, McCann-Erickson and Saatchi & Saatchi. He transforms what is into what could be, and believes that business as usual is usually bad business. As one who likes to keep things moving, John is one race away from running a marathon on all 7 continents. X  Close
  • Jennifer Ganshirt EVP, Director of Strategic Planning Jennifer has been listening to women her whole life and understands that what women say doesn’t always match what they do. She has over 20 years experience working with Fortune 500 companies to provide female-savvy, brand-building insights as well as actionable marketing initiatives for such brands as Unilever, T.J.Maxx, P&G, Clorox, Hanes, Nestlé, Coca Cola and Miller Brewing.X  Close
  • Shaun Stripling SVP, Chief Marketing Officer Shaun has an insatiable curiosity that fuels her desire to dissect, understand and, ultimately, move consumers to action. She’s lead successful brand-building initiatives for a diverse range of blue-chip brands, including Holland America Line, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, McDonald's, Royal Velvet, Audi of America, NASDAQ and Chateau Ste. Michelle. Shaun sees each marketing challenge as an opportunity to explore the human condition, ask smarter questions, and sometimes, just listen. X  Close
  • Anne Elwell EVP, Group Account Director Anne has been leading account teams across the country and around the world—from Gatorade and Oreo in Singapore to Sealy Mattresses and Unilever's TRESemme brand in the U.S., she’s made a career out of immersing herself in the emotions and actions of consumers. Ann is a working mom who’s not only seasoned in CPG marketing, but also leads the charge on B2B brands including GlaxoSmithKline and BASF.X  Close
  • Brian Bronaugh President Brian is the president of Mullen Pittsburgh and serves as the agency’s executive creative director. Before that, he was busy collecting kudos from both clients and award show judges as Creative Director. Since 1990, Brian has been an integral part of the agency’s growth from a successful creative boutique to the operation it is today. He is driven to build the agency and provide resources to meet the demands of the ever-changing communications and business landscape for our clients.X  Close
  • Dave Popelka SVP, Director of Account Planning Dave serves as our chief strategist and planner, with a keen focus on the consumer and unearthing the factors that inspire awareness and action. His experience in all methodologies of research, strategic planning, brand architecture construction, focus group moderating and interviewing has proven invaluable in representing the voice of the consumer for our clients. He works closely with all agency personnel to reach our clients’ customers with the right message at the right time.X  Close
  • Michael Hoff SVP, Creative Director Mike, our ever-present Creative Director, is charged with overseeing the entire creative process across all mediums and working with account managers, planners and clients to develop award-winning work that gets results. Mike works closely with our Executive Creative Director to supervise and provide creative leadership to the agency’s talented group of writers, art directors, designers and producers in every aspect of the creative process.X  Close
  • Alex Maurer SVP, Director of Client Services Alex climbed from the lowest rung of the Account Services ladder to one of the most important positions in the agency. Today, he serves as the Director of Client Services, responsible for maintaining strong client relationships and overseeing the strategic thinking and organization across a range of accounts. He works closely with each department within the agency to ensure continuity and continued on-target communications that meet the strategic goals of our clients.X  Close
  • Terri Petras VP, Director of Business Development Terri joined us in 1996 and has served Mullen with her extensive experience in consumer, business-to-business, DIY and economic development ever since. She works tirelessly on day-to-day account management, strategic and marketing planning, as well as project and budget monitoring for numerous accounts. As our director of business development, her client experience, attention to detail and “nothing is impossible” attitude have proven invaluable. X  Close