Pepe Funegra is a creative leader with 15+ years of experience, a charming accent and a name that sounds like a high-end, expensive, agave blanco tequila.
His career spans Mother NY, Droga5 and CP+B, bringing together different schools of thought to make things people actually care about. Campaigns, interactive experiences, books, product innovation. Whatever makes people stop in their tracks and give a sh*t.
He’s created work for Microsoft, HBO, Electronic Arts, Kraft, Spotify, Stella Artois, Ford and more, picking up Gold Lions at Cannes and Pencils at D&AD and The One Show along the way.
One last thing: Pepe really hates boring stuff. With a last name that starts with “fun,” he feels he has a reputation to uphold.
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Resume
August 2021 - Present: Group Creative Director Droga5 NY
- Leading Microsoft, The Sims and HBO
-Pitched and won HBO, The Sims and Huggies
June 2020 - August 2021: Creative Director Mekanism NY
- Pitched and won Quaker (Pepsico)
- Creative Director leading Cricket Wireless and Quaker brands.
2019 - 2020: Freelance Creative Director
= Droga5 NY
2018 - 2019: Creative Director 72andSunny NY
- Creative Director leading Spotify
2016 - 2018: Creative Director Mother NY
2013 - 2016: Senior Creative Mother NY
- Creative Lead on Stella Artois (USA)
- Led the development of Stella Artois’ most ambitious experiential idea to date.
- Worked on Tanqueray, Netflix, Baileys, Diamonds Producers Association, Reebok, and JW Marriott.
- Created one the most awarded campaigns in Mother New York’s history: James Patterson’s Self-Destructing Book.
- Part of the team that won Baileys Global, CurrentC and Reebok Classics.
2012 - 2013: ACD Hudson Rouge NYC
- Launched campaign to reposition the Lincoln Motor Company.
- Won first Cannes Gold Lion for the agency.
2010 - 2012: ACD CP+B Boulder
- Part of the team that won Belvita, Triscuit and Kraft Mac and Cheese.
- Won the first Cannes Lion for Kraft (Jell-O.)
- Worked on Microsoft, Burger King, Jell-O, Mac and Cheese, Belvita and Triscuit.
2008 - 2010: ACD Leo Burnett Chicago
- Won the first Gold Lion for the agency.
- Creative Lead on all the Procter & Gamble accounts (Bounty, Gain Detergent and Pepto Bismol.)
2006 - 2008: Sr Creative Leo Burnett Puerto Rico
- Won local and regional Grand Prix during the first six months.
2002 - 2006: ACD Leo Burnett Peru
- Part of the team that made Peru’s office Leo Burnett’s Global Agency of the Year 2005.
- Won multiple local and global awards including Cannes Lions and D&AD pencils.
An interesting fact for HR folks:
Five years ago, during a colorful ceremony, I became an American citizen.