JB has owned and operated his own creative production studio for nearly twenty years, building it into a shop trusted with hundreds of global campaigns for Nike, Jeep, Alfa Romeo, Champion, the US Navy, Chevy, Chrysler, Dodge, Lincoln, Hyatt, Bloomberg and The UPS Store. As founder and executive, he has run every side of the business — winning the work, building the teams, owning the client relationships and delivering at global scale — while keeping a director’s hand on the craft.

That craft is award-winning. JB first made his mark directing Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow’s record-breaking “Picture” music video, then broke through in advertising with TNT’s “Frozen Moments” — starring Alfred Molina, Jada Pinkett Smith, Ving Rhames, Regina King and Kyra Sedgwick — launching a long collaboration with the Turner Network across dozens of campaigns for TNT and TBS. He has directed talent from Morgan Freeman and Ray Romano to Cindy Crawford and Bob Seger.

As a writer and creator, JB has developed numerous series and features, most recently creating The Forest with producer Jeff G. Waxman, sold to USA Network, UCP and Ryan Reynolds’ Dark Trick.

Ash builds companies. Twenty years founding them, running them, turning them around and selling them, across four continents — the partner a chief executive brings in to grow the whole enterprise, not the one who books the media. He co-founded SMART Creative in Australia and took it from four people to the country’s third-largest independent agency group — three hundred staff, four offices, sold to IPG — then ran McCann Worldgroup Australia through a two-year turnaround to Most Effective Agency in the World.

A decade on the largest accounts in global business followed, out of New York and Detroit. General Motors: 2,500 people, nine agencies, twenty-five offices, five straight years of growth — Chevrolet lifted from twenty-first to first with record sales three years running. Verizon, IPG’s second-largest account. Microsoft, where he cut media spend by a quarter while share rose. Most recently, as Global CMO and US President of Decidr.ai, he built the U.S. business from nothing and took an agentic AI operating system past ten million dollars in recurring revenue.

Over three hundred awards, among them a Global Grand Effie for Microsoft and “Dumb Ways to Die” — 330 million views, no media spend. Earlier he built Spike in Los Angeles, the world’s first streaming audio platform, and cut his teeth at Virgin in the UK. He read PPE at Oxford, took his MBA at Oxford Brookes, and served as a Captain in the Parachute Regiment in Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia. British and Australian.

Jeff G. Waxman has produced over thirty feature films including Don’t Look Up, Vice (dir. Adam McKay), John Wick II & III (dir. Chad Stahelski), The Fighter (dir. David O. Russell), mother! (dir. Darren Aronofsky), Out of The Furnace (dir. Scott Cooper), Law Abiding Citizen (dir. F. Gary Gray), and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (dir. Sidney Lumet).

As a founding partner of Backyard Productions and its President/Executive Producer for 20-plus years, Stribley built and ran the highly respected, award-winning company while overseeing thousands of productions for nearly every major brand in the U.S., as well as many global marketers.

Since selling his interest in the company, Stribley has worked as a consultant and independent Executive Producer in the production space. He has engaged in several long-term consultancies in the building and operation of internal production and post production entities for the advertising holding companies, Stagwell and McCann.

Recently, Stribley has expanded his production experience into the narrative entertainment space. In 2024, he produced an independent feature film and completed a production service project for Blumhouse Studios.

As a life-long entrepreneur, Stribley honed skills as a business operator, built a global network of production contacts, and developed an ability to walk the line between managing production budgets while pursuing creative excellence. The intention for every project under his watch is to exceed creative expectations while building a positive work environment for all involved.

Blair is a natural collaborator and an effective team builder who managed and helped advance the careers of hundreds of directors, designers, production executives, producers, and employees of all levels. He believes open communication is the best pathway to unifying a group and achieving common goals, big or small.

Stribley is a strong believer in creating opportunities for a diverse group of talented individuals and has acted on that belief throughout his career.

Stribley was an eight-year member of the AICP West Coast board.

When he’s away from work, Blair loves experiencing everything his hometown of Chicago has to offer with his wife and two daughters.

A commercial producer based in Los Angeles. Donna has produced throughout the U.S., abroad, and traveled between Los Angeles and her hometown Chicago – happily avoiding most of the Midwestern winters. She has produced for production companies such as Anonymous Content, Backyard, Caviar, Frame Store, Hungryman, Moxie Pictures, Netflix, Raucous Content, Skunk, Superprime, Tool of North America , Uber Content, to name a few.

Although commercials are her medium of choice, she has also produced award-winning title openings and promos. One of her greatest strengths as a producer is the on-set liaison between agency and director to ensure everyone is creatively in sync and that we “make the day”.

One of her favorite parts of the production, however, is the collaborative process that begins even before the job is awarded. Building a team and bringing the creative vision to life through the reality of the budget. The research that goes into properly budgeting this creative vision is extensive and the relationships she’s forged throughout her career are invaluable to this end.

How does Donna budget for healthy and dying weeds for a fertilizer commercial? She flies in the “dandelion guy” from Atlanta….How do you find him…..resources, resources, resources.