Doner Media

We have some great news about our creative group.

We are proud to announce that Brian Born and Chuck Meehan have joined us as creative directors for our Newport Beach office. Brian and Chuck bring diverse creative experience and a trophy case of award hardware to the agency. In joining us, they reunite as partners. They’ll help expand the Newport Beach office as an autonomous, creative outpost and help build the agency’s West Coast presence and clientele.

Also, Doner veteran Sheldon Cohn has moved into a new position, as executive vice president-director of content innovation. This new role expands our relationships with content producers to identify and create opportunistic content for the agency’s client brands. Kurt Kulas will succeed Sheldon as director of integrated production from senior vice president-integrated production.

These changes round out our creative leadership that Rob has attracted from all over in a little more than a year to overhaul our creative ranks and better serve up integrated and digital content.

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News Facts

Brian Born and Chuck Meehan have joined the agency as creative directors to lead all the creative content that comes out of our Newport Beach, Calif., office.

• This new team is part of Doner’s commitment to expanding the Newport Beach office as an autonomous, creative outpost that builds the brand’s West Coast presence and clientele.
• Born and Meehan bring diverse creative experience to Doner having worked on a broad range of accounts for which their combined trophy cases are filled with nearly every major industry award including the One Show, D&AD, Cannes, Communication Arts, Andy and Graphis.
• For over 25 years, Born has been art directing and producing result driven advertising for major Fortune 500 clients. He most recently served as associate creative director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Boulder, Colo., where he worked on the Microsoft, Burger King, Coke Zero and Zune brands.
• Meehan has been creating brand-building advertising for close to 20 years, most recently serving as group creative director at BBDO, Atlanta. While there he was responsible for organizing and creating the campaigns for AT&T’s home and wireless business and formulated the campaign that was instrumental in landing the Embassy Suites account.
• In joining Doner, Born and Meehan reunite as partners after a year when they were at GSD&M, Austin, on accounts such as the PGA Tour, John Deere and Texas A&M

Quotes

• We’re very lucky to have individuals with such award-winning portfolios leading the creative in Newport Beach and we look forward to seeing what’s to come under their direction. – Rob Strasberg, Doner vice chairman, senior partner, chief creative officer
• We’re thrilled to be here and working together again. – Chuck Meehan, Doner creative director
•In addition to building Doner’s presence in the region, we plan to continue focusing on using the latest advertising media in order to maximize the creative potential that exists for the agency’s existing clients. – Brian Born, Doner creative director

About Doner
Doner, headquartered in Southfield, Mich., is the largest independently owned advertising agency in the world, with approximately $2 billion in combined billings. The Agency has offices throughout North America, as well as in London, and does business in more than 30 countries for clients including Mazda, Serta, ADT, Owens Corning and HGTV. A full-service, performance driven agency, Doner focuses on creating ideas that will have a demonstrable impact on its clients’ business.