George Tannenbaum

• New York, NY

Hi, I'm George Tannenbaum. Welcome to my profile!

George Tannenbaum's Bio:

George Tannenbaum's Experience:

• Executive Vice President, Executive Creative Director at Digitas

  February 2005 - February 2007

  I was co-head of the agency's flagship Boston office.

• freelance at GeorgeCo, A Delaware Company

  2006 - 2007

  I freelanced for Hill Holliday/NY, MMB/Boston, McKinney/Raleigh, Darling Agency/NY and various other entities.

• Sr. Vice President, Group Creative Director at Publicis & Hal Riney

  April 2004 - February 2005

  I ran HP, the agency's largest account.

• Sr. Vice President, Group Creative Director at Ogilvy

  July 1999 - April 2004

  I ran portions of the IBM business.

• Sr. Partner, Group Creative Director at Ogilvy and Mather

  1999 - 2004

  I worked on various segments of the IBM account.

• Sr. Vice President, Group Creative Director at Lowe and Partners Worldwide

  November 1996 - July 1999

  I worked on the Mercedes-Benz business and sundry other accounts.

• Vice President, Creative Director at Draftfcb

  1995 - 1996

  I was a creative director on AT&T and pitched and won the United States Postal Service account.

• svp, creative group head at Ally & Gargano

  1990 - 1995

  Harvard Business Review named Ally "Agency of the Decade." I was their youngest Senior Vice President ever and ran their second largest account, The Bank of New York.

• Copywriter at Rosenfeld, Sirowitz

  July 1988 - April 1990

  I learned from Hall of Famers Ron Rosenfeld and Len Sirowitz. They each wanted me to marry their daughters.

• Copywriter at Lowe and Partners Worldwide

  December 1984 - July 1988

  I worked on Citibank, Nabisco and other major brands.

• Executive Creative Director at R/GA

  November 2009

  I am Executive Creative Director on the Ameriprise Financial account. This is the "Digital Agency of the Decade's" initial fully integrated piece of business. We create every form of communications for our client from national TV spots to speeches for their CEO.

• Chief George Officer at GeorgeCo, A Delaware Company

  February 2007

  GeorgeCorp is a full-service agency with a short list Fortune 100 Clients. We build brands, sell products and services and make coffee. We do work and win awards (for both creativity and effectiveness) in all media. Everyday we turn down clients and business because we have enough to suit us.

George Tannenbaum's Education:

• Columbia University in the City of New York

  1979 – 1980
  MA

• Rye Country Day School

  1971 – 1975
  High School
  Concentration: Baseball, girls and Latin.