HEAD OF CREATIVE

Joe Burke

     As the former Chief Creative Officer for Marc USA, founding member and Executive Creative Director of jumbo start-up Element79, Group Creative Director at FCB, and Creative Director at DDB to name a few, Joe is one of the most respected creative talents in Chicago.
     In his three decades in the business Joe has been responsible for some of the industry’s most notable work. Including award-winning domestic and international work for Gatorade, Coors Light, Capital One Bank, Quaker Oats, American Family Insurance, Motorola, life cereal, Sherwin-Williams Paint, Hillshire Farm, Oscar Mayer Bacon, Firehouse Subs and Johnson and Evinrude outboard motors. Joe’s won just about every big award there is in the business, but he’s most proud of the half-dozen Effie Awards he’s won alongside his many happy clients.

HEAD OF STRATEGIC PLANNING

Carol Dunne

     Marketing Executive with extensive experience overseeing all aspects of brand strategy, advertising, creative and content strategy, and public relations. A strong track-record of branding, strategy and new product innovation is backed by a career in the Chicago ad community. Brand building, revenue-generating campaigns in the CPG, hotel and family entertainment industries were successful due to insights and superior creativity applied to her brand assignments. Three ad campaigns have been awarded EFFIES for marketing effectiveness, most recently for the long-running “Taking Care of Business” campaign for La Quinta Hotels. With an innate curiosity for all things shaping consumer life and behavior, Carol is a customer-obsessed brand-builder and strategist.

HEAD OF POST PRODUCTION

Chris Shegich

    It all started 30 years ago when Chris Shegich took a job at the PBS station in Muncie, Indiana. There his illustrious career took off while working on the television show “The Joy of Painting” with Bob Ross. After graduating from Ball State University, he moved to Chicago and landed a job as Editor at Avenue Edit, where he resided for 12 years working his way up to Senior Editor on advertising campaigns for Reebok, Gatorade, McDonald’s and Sears.

     His passion for the art of editing inspired him to start his own production company Odd Machine which has been producing commercials and web content for such companies as Caterpillar, Michelob Ultra and various Pharmaceutical Companies for over a decade.

HEAD OF PRODUCTION

Alec Pinkston

     Alec has a deep passion for storytelling, conceiving ambitious ideas and outlining steps to tell those ambitious story ideas. He cut his teeth at Second City and IO in Chicago before launching the Odd Machine office in Los Angeles later returning as Executive Producer.
In addition to producing several award winning pilots, music videos and documentaries, Alec has worked with major brands to develop tiny sparks of ideas into roaring fires.
     Winner of Project Greenlight’s “Next Great Animated Series” Alec is currently in development on Senataur, an animated political satire about an alien centaur who runs for President.