James Cooper joins Saatchi & Saatchi as Interactive Creative Director

05 MAY 2009

Gerry Graf, Chief Creative Officer of Saatchi & Saatchi’s New York office announces today that James Cooper has joined as Interactive Creative Director. He most recently had been consulting with interactive shop Dare and before that had been Creative Partner at Another Anomaly. 
  
Graf notes: “James is an incredible creative director. He's won all the awards and stuff, but more importantly, he thinks like no one I have ever worked with.”

Cooper adds: “I'm very excited to be joining. Fundamentally, if Gerry Graf calls you, pick up the phone. We had a number of very frank meetings. He told me the kind of department he is building and I told him the kind of work I want to do. Luckily there was more agreement than disagreement. Saatchi does great work both here in NY and around the network, so they have that invaluable thing: momentum.”

About James Cooper
Campaign described James as ‘one of the brightest stars in digital advertising’. He has worked in advertising for nearly fifteen years. The last seven of which he has been a digital creative director. He has picked up awards for creativity and effectiveness at the world’s best award shows including The One Show, Cannes and D&AD for global and local clients such as Sony, Unilever, IBM and Vodafone.

He has been creative director for London’s leading independent Digital Agencies, Dare and Agency Republic, both being named Agency of the Year (in Dare’s case three years in a row) but previously worked as writer for some of the most established Ad Agencies including Ogilvy and Darcy. In 2008 he left London to become a partner at Another Anomaly in New York, where he helped create YouTube sensation Lauren Luke’s make up brand from scratch.

James has a passion for teaching advertising. He recently taught a semester for Miami Ad School, previously taught sessions at Watford College (‘The Oxbridge of Advertising’) and founded Dare School, a creative graduate trainee scheme in 2006. He continues to blog and speaks regularly at industry events on both sides of the Atlantic. For one of the foremost experts in digital media he recently did a strange thing: he launched Celebrity Ping Pong a print magazine about Ping Pong. He is rated 1393 in the US at Table Tennis. He *will* beat you.