Ali Brown brings her expansive knowledge of the industry and taste in storytelling to her role as Partner/President at both PRETTYBIRD and Ventureland. Through her creative eye, PRETTYBIRD’s work and roster continue to be recognized on the global stage with memorable wins at Cannes Lions, One Show, Clio Awards, D&AD, and the AICP Awards, as well as being named Ad Age & Creativity Magazine's Production Company of the Year, twice. With a passion for developing talent, Brown has helped PRETTYBIRD solidify its reputation as a creative hub breaking ground with the type of work they produce and the quality of voices they amplify.  

Brown brings her experience as a multi-platform producer to Ventureland, an award winning creative studio she co-founded in 2020 with her PRETTYBIRD partners Kerstin Emhoff and Paul Hunter and Oscar-winning producer John Battsek. In only a few short years, Ventureland has produced multiple episodic and feature film projects such as the Academy Award-nominated Bobi Wine: The People’s President, The Deepest Breath and the beloved series Beckham for Netflix , Searching for Soul Food for Hulu, the BAFTA nominated WHAM! documentary directed by Chris Smith, and Peabody nominated podcast Stories of the Stalked, among others.  Brown is currently executive producing alongside showrunner/creator/director Paul Hunter the David Oyelowo vehicle Government Cheese produced alongside Macro for Apple TV+. 

Brown served two terms as AICP/West President and was the AICP Show chairperson for 2020 and 2021. She notably served as the President of the Young Director’s Award Jury in Cannes 2018 - making her the first female president in the show’s 21-year History – in addition to acting as jury president for D&AD and the Creativity Awards. 

In 2020, Brown created “Double the Line” – an initiative supported by AICP’s Equity and Inclusion Committee, which gives production and post-production companies, agencies, and clients the ability to create access and opportunity for BIPOC crew. She’s on the advisory board of Manifest Works and serves as Director of Fundraising for the Fireflies West.

Edward Burns has made 14 feature films as a writer-director-actor and has starred in many films, most notably Saving Private Ryan. Burns’ first film The Brothers McMullen, premiered in competition at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury prize. The film also won "Best First Feature" at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards. He is currently in production on his new film, Millers in Marriage for Paramount Global. This fall, Burns is publishing first novel, A Kid from Marlboro Road, with Seven Stories Press. Ed Burns was born in Woodside, Queens and raised on Long Island. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

With the ambition to help perpetuate John Hegarty’s famous words “We haven’t come this far to be ordinary,” Deb Archambault re-joined BBH US as the Head of Production. In a world where a brief could become anything, her specialty is solving projects with no roadmap across all mediums and platforms. From middle of the night installs on Wall Street to overnight shoots in Bangkok, Deb has played a role in countless projects of varying sizes and is excited to bestow her knowledge on the next generation of producers rising the ranks of the BBH halls.

Prior to the boomerang,  Deb started out doing in-house casting at Deutsch NY, embraced the concept of integrated production at Publicis NY, and challenged the concept of a love song at McCann NY. She has produced some of the most iconic and awarded advertising of the past decade,  projects like Fearless Girl, Universal Love, Godiva Box within a Box and Hope Stems.  

She can often be found slope side or dancing in the backyard with her two children, and husband in suburban NY.

Nikki Baker, together with her creative partner Leslie Shaffer, are Co-CCOs at Fallon. With a deliberate “no house style,” over the years Nikki and Leslie have overseen work from a wide range of clients including Arby’s, Mattress Firm, KeyBank, and ESPN, to name a few. Today, while Leslie focuses on Fallon, Nikki is the CCO of Publicis Groupe’s Walmart creative partnership, which includes overseeing creative work from a collective of five agencies, including Fallon. Prior to Fallon, Nikki and Leslie created a lot of memorable and award-winning work for a variety of clients including the “Transfarency” brand platform for Southwest Airlines, McDonald’s, Porsche, and ConAgra Foods. Along with Leslie, Nikki has been named to Adweek’s Top 50 Creatives and Business Insider’s 30 Most Creative Women in Advertising. Their work has been recognized by Cannes, Clio Awards, One Show, D&AD, and more. Nikki lives in Minneapolis with her dog Stanley.

My career path has been unique as I’ve been in highly creative roles that have also needed very strong managerial skills to drive business results, not just creative ones. I’ve led world class creative teams at Ogilvy & Mather and DDB Tribal, built from scratch a fully integrated in-house agency at draftLine (AB-InBev), led the brand campaigns and creative team at a tech company, and currently I’m the leading change at a Global PR agency, taking the creative from PR tactics to billion-impression earning campaigns.

My 19+ years of experience in the creative industry isn’t just varied in the type of work I do, it’s varied in who the work is made for. I’ve worked in three different countries and the work itself has been awarded at Cannes, Clio, One Show and Effies among others. Thanks to my professional accolades, I’ve been invited to be a mentor and teacher at the most prestigious creative programs in the world, such as D&AD New Blood Academy, Professor at Miami Ad School & Instructor at One Creator Lab (The One Club for Creativity). And I’ve had the honor of being part of the Jury at world renowned creative shows such as One Show, Webby Awards, New York Festival, Effie North America, Canadian Marketing Association Award (CMA), and more.

You're no stranger to this Emmy-winning creative’s work. Bianca Guimaraes is behind cultural thunders like Sandy Hook Promise’s Back to School Essentials, Thinx's "MENstruation" and "The Epidemic"—the latest installment of an anti-bullying drive in which Bianca has
worked hand-in-hand with Monica Lewinsky.

Bianca created those during her time at BBDO. However, not too long ago, she left that job to do something incredibly bold: help launch a new creative agency in the middle of a pandemic. 

She joined Mischief @ No Fixed Address in July of 2020 as a founding partner and—in the space of just a few months—made global noise with prominent campaigns.

Some of Bianca’s accomplishments include being named as one of Business Insider’s ‘30 Most Creative People in Advertising Under 30’ in 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Shots magazine selected her for their inaugural list of “Rising Stars;” Adweek included her among its “Creative 100;” The Drum named her to their “50 Under 30” list; She Says and The Voice of a Woman awarded her as The VOWWS Best Creative Director; The One Show and the 3% Conference named her as one of their Next Creative Leaders; AdAge featured her on their 40 Under 40 list; and most recently she was named one of AdAge’s 2021 Leading Women in the US, and one of Campaign US "Female Frontier honorees."

Her work has been nominated for an Emmy three times, and has won more than 100 international awards.

As Chief Creative Officer of BBH USA, Erica Roberts leads all creative strategy and execution for the agency’s clients including Samsung, Google, Mattel’s Barbie, Netflix, Martell U.S. and Brighthouse Financial; and is additionally on the BBH Global Board. A 15-year Publicis Groupe veteran, she has helped strengthen the Power of One model by bringing media, experience design, strategy, data and PR together with creative to deliver some of the most talked about and recognized work in the industry. Most recently, Erica was CCO, Publicis New York; and prior to that, she was Executive Creative Director for PSOne, the bespoke Publicis Groupe solution for The J.M. Smucker Company, where she created game changing work including “Jif vs. Gif,” which was cited as the “best peanut butter campaign of all time” by Campaign US, and the Lil Jif Project’s #JifRapChallenge, which was recognized by Adweek as one of the five “Best Ads of 2021.”

Roberts is a renowned creative leader within the industry, having been named to Adweek’s Creative 100 list as an Agency Leader to Watch, in addition to Campaign US’s 40 Over 40. She has led award-winning, business-transforming work across nearly every category, from CPG to QSR, financial services and retail. Erica lives in New York City with her husband and son. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, second only to Scrabble and Scrabble-related trash talk.