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A Chicago-based Creative Director leading multiple teams across his global agency's largest and most profitable account, who can't not make the "best" joke at the worst possible time and relentlessly challenges his teams to absolutely kill shit while simultaneously being their go-to Emotional Support Human... all in third-person run-on sentences.
EXPERIENCE
MONKS
CREATIVE DIRECTOR (2025-present)
Grew T-Mobile account 12% beyond projected annual revenue in year one
CASHMERE AGENCY
CREATIVE DIRECTOR (2022-2025)
ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR (2021-2022)
Launched Grey Goose Altius at Art Basel as inter-agency lead creative, generating 100M reach and #1 share of voice
Led an integrated multi-cultural brand campaign for Disney, earning the 2024 ANA Multicultural Excellence Grand Prize
Produced Amazon Music’s global Hip-Hop brand launch campaign featuring Vince Staples
Developed a multi-platform nonprofit campaign for Google x Gold House, earning the Gold Honor and Audience Honor in the 2022 Shorty Awards
BURRELL COMMUNICATIONS
SENIOR ART DIRECTOR (2018-2021)
ART DIRECTOR (2016-2018)
Spearheaded McDonald’s “Black & Positively Golden” social driven brand initiative
Created Xfinity Holiday campaign directed by Joe Pytka
LEO BURNETT WORLDWIDE
INTERN, ART DIRECTION (2012)
SO many landing pages...
Won summer intern pitch competition
CAPABILITIES
Culture-driven brand strategy and creative
Establishing creative culture across teams and accounts
Inter-agency creative leadership
Commercial directing
RECOGNITION
2024 ANA Multicultural Excellence Awards Grand Prize | Disney – “We Came To Play”
2023 Shorty Awards Finalist, Gold Honor, Audience Honor | Google x Gold House A100 – ”Raised Voices”
2020 AAF “The Mosaic 10” | Google Duo – ”Love Liberates”
SELECT CLIENTS
Toyota, Marriott Bonvoy, Hulu, Walmart, SVEDKA
CONTACT
E: VINH.X.TRAN@GMAIL.COM
M: 773 510 4974