Robert Duncan

Executive creative director, partner
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Before starting D/C, Duncan served almost five years as VP and creative director at Foote, Cone & Belding, working on Citibank, Pacific Bell and Hewlett-Packard. Before that, he had a career in journalism, including ten years writing about rock ’n’ roll in such magazines as Rolling Stone, Life, and Creem, for which he was managing editor, and in several books, including The Noise. As a partner and executive creative director at D/C, he has helped develop award-winning advertising and branding efforts for both Hard Rock, which won the 2007 international REBRAND 100 award, and Esurance, among many others.

As a rock critic, he has interviewed: Bruce Springsteen, Freddie Mercury, Patti Smith, Ronnie Van Zant, Ted Nugent, War, ZZ Top, Kraftwerk, and others he can’t remember. He has flown on a private jet with Keith Richards, jammed with Blue Öyster Cult, sung to Sammy Hagar (accapella) and Liza Minnelli, but not at the same time. In recent years, his locker at the health club has, on occasion, adjoined Phil Lesh’s, whom he has seen in his underwear. As a kid, he saw the Beatles at Shea. He is a guitarist, singer, composer and producer of albums for 3DayBig&Tall and the Toll Sergeants.

He is married to the artist and former rock photographer Roni Hoffman and father of two grownup writers.