Eric Weisberg

Eric Weisberg

Global Chief Creative Officer at Havas Health & You
New York, United States

About me

Trying to classify Eric is pretty tough. He’s built a reputation as a transformational creative leader in both the general market and health and wellness space. Eric believes in advertising ideas at the intersection of art and science and connecting brands with culture using a blend of content, technology, and media. He was named to the “Digital Top 40 over 40” by Campaign and one of the “Most Creative People in Mobile Advertising” by Business Insider.

Eric has guided his teams to win over 100 international creative awards from Cannes, The One Show, Clios, The Webby’s, Effies, and many others. Eric’s work can be found in the Smithsonian permanent collection, college textbooks, and celebrated by global news organizations including CNN, NBC, BCC, The New York Times, Fast Company, and more.

The impact of Eric’s work in health includes reducing the stigma of mental illness by using social media; diagnosing diabetic nerve pain within Black communities with the help of Spike Lee; a patent-pending algorithm for predicting the flu, and developing the most-downloaded Marvel Comic of 2020, honoring the heroism of nurses fighting COVID-19.

Positions

Global Chief Creative Officer
New York, United States
August 2021 - Present (3 years 4 months)
Global Chief Creative Officer
Detroit, United States
September 2016 - 2021 (4 years 4 months)
- The most award-winning era in the agency's history. Including Cannes, The One Show, Clio Awards, ADDY, Effies, Graphis, Communications Arts, D-Show, Webby Awards
-Significant new business wins, including fairlife milk, McDonald's regional co-op marketing, Netflix, MedStar Health, Potbelly Sandwich Shop; DelMonte Foods; Penn Gaming, GUM (oral care), Nathan's Famous, Huawei, among others.
- Launched The Experience Kitchen, a new group and new operating system for lightweight and middleweight social/digital content and brand experiences.
- Expanded in-house production capabilities to include 2 on-staff directors, a line producer, 25 edit suites, 5 sound rooms, a still and live-action food studio, green screen room and a mobile grip truck
Global Executive Creative Director
Global
March 2001 - September 2016 (15 years 6 months)
– The most award-winning group 4 years in a row: Including the first-ever Gold Lion for Mobile, the People's Voice at the Webby Awards, a Grand Effie finalist and over 100 other major industry awards from Cannes, Clio, OneShow, D&AD, LIA, IAB MiXX, SXSW, ADC and many more.
– Established the first fully integrated creative group at JWT. This 50-person+ team seamlessly works on "traditional", digital and CRM.
– Lead significant new business wins (organic and non-organic) that has doubled the revenue of the group
– Responsible for the largest account at JWT New York – Johnson & Johnson
– Founded 2 Hour Tuesdays. A creative hothouse for developing IP for the agency, out-of-scope revenue opportunities and non-profit philanthropy
– On the global leadership team for Junk Waste Trash, a global initiative to lower JWT’s carbon footprint by 20%
Associate Creative Director
K2 Digital
May 2000 - February 2001 (9 months)
Sr. Copywriter
New York, United States
May 1999 - May 2000 (1 year)
Creative
Leo Burnett
1994 - 1997 (3 years)

Education

Bachelor's degree

1990 - 1993 (3 years)

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