About

Ben is a creative thinker who doesn’t like ads much. But he enjoys making cool things with smart people and interesting partners. He’s worked with adidas, E! Entertainment, Google, Nike, Paramount Pictures, Pepsi, and Sony.

Most recently, he co-led the small creative department at Bullish. What’s Bullish? Wow, you’re not the first person to ask him. Bullish is a group of agency ex-pats who invest in early-stage start-ups and consult established companies having ‘start-up’ moments. He helped investments like Light Phone amplify their voice, companies like NomNom find their soul, and products like Spark Grills find their people.

Ben started his career at 180 where he was lucky enough to be mentored by a handful of seriously talented folks, who were simultaneously crazy enough to allow him to try to launch a rocket, hunt for sunken ships, shoot two documentaries, and sink a million dollars in the oceans of Google Earth.

After many sunny years, he crossed the 405 to help BBH start an office at the intersection of entertainment, technology, and innovation. By day, he helped launch Google’s moonshot to take on Apple’s App Store — Google Play. By night, he made an atrocious fragrance commercial with Nicki Minaj, pitched a ton of TV shows about weather-related phenomena, presented a light year’s worth of Star Trek launch ideas to J.J. Abrams that all failed to launch, semi-successfully launched a vodka with Kacey Musgraves, worked on a concept album for &%^F&#$@ that never will see the light of day, and helped create an interactive TV channel for kids that crashed and burned during development. As they say in the tech world, you learn a lot from failure.