Ronny Northrop
Writer
Ronny shaped his career with 10 years between Crispin Porter + Bogusky and Goodby Silverstein & Partners. With over 22 years of experience, he has led winning pitches big and small and built creative departments from the ground up. He’s launched creative innovation labs in three different agencies and won a bunch of awards including three gold cyber lions and the coveted D&AD black pencil. Ronny has judged the One Show, the Andys and the Radio Mercury Awards.
Most important, some of his best work has helped to reframe narratives around teen smoking, HIV testing, climate change, green infrastructure, the obesity epidemic and autism.
Before the ad game, Ronny spent two years traveling around the world solo funded by odd jobs like picking apples, bananas and wine grapes, commercial tuna fishing, crewing on an adventure tour boat off Australia's Kimberly Coast and as a ranch hand on a sheep and cattle station deep in the Outback. Ronny is typically drumming in at least one band and he currently lives in New York with his wife Mary, daughter Simone and too many animals to name here.
Ryan Holland
Art Director
Ryan is a multidisciplinary creative with 15 years of experience in design, art direction, editing, and motion design.
He aspires to be a triple threat of creativity. Whether it’s solving problems with razor sharp thinking, creating impactful visual languages or building a media buzz storm, he proudly gives his all to every stage of every project he takes on.
He’s led campaigns backed by big media dollars. Won pitches. Taught and mentored young creatives. Built brands from the ground up. Created something out of nothing many times over. And won a few awards along the way.
Ryan always has a personal project going. Lately he’s been submitting cartoons to the New Yorker. All have been rejected so far, but the sting of failure drives him forward.
His life before advertising was focused on attaining his CPA and law degree, but he abandoned it for a life of creativity. However he still credits his business acumen for much of the success he’s had.
Ryan lives in San Francisco with his wife and two young boys, who love to check in on his video chats unexpectedly. The boys, not his wife.