Andy is one of the only guys in the advertising business with an advertising degree, earned from the distinguished Newhouse School at Syracuse University. He cut his marketing teeth (they’re just behind the canines) working on packaged goods at multinationals in New York, then moved to San Francisco to get into retail and image brands. At Foote, Cone & Belding/SF, he held senior jobs running Taco Bell, Levi’s and the $100 million Sega Dreamcast launch. Joining D/C in 2000, he brought a new level of strategic leadership and led giant-killing pitches for Clos du Bois, Network Associates (now McAfee), Birkenstock and others.

His sick, secret life as a shoe fetishist, revealed in a photograph of his 13 pairs of Birkenstock sandals, proved especially compelling in that pitch, much as his French-born oenophilia has been inordinately valuable for wine clients. Andy is also D/C’s resident camera expert, with a collection that rivals that of his shoes, and a closet IT guy with a nerdy passion for flight simulators. To add to this troubling portrait, Andy once went 11 days without bathing – which doesn’t seem to have precluded his becoming father of two with his (apparently) long-suffering wife.

In addition to riding herd on the account department at D/C and general managing everything else, Andy is the chief strategist on Esurance and StubHub.

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.

After attending UC Berkeley, Parker began his career at Foote, Cone & Belding/San Francisco. In addition to helping the phone company hawk a befuddling new service called electronic mail (the kids call it: “e-mail”), he hornswoggled grown men into buying Gameboys – and an illicit love affair with the gaming industry was born. Parker has developed TV, print and interactive campaigns for most of the major videogame companies — including Sega, for whom he created the much-honored “Heroes” spot. In addition to garnering industry honors galore, his work has sold tens of millions of titles.

He is also the creative director on D/C’s breathrough “Binoculars” spot for StubHub, recently featured in CA. He developed the innovative multimedia campaign that launched Clos du Bois from less than a million cases to more than two, and he heads the creative crew responsible for mesmerizing the well-heeled into acquiring luxury condos at LA’s Ritz-Carlton. Celebrating his bourbon-soaked Louisville lineage, Parker, a partner and ECD at D/C, used to host a Kentucky Derby party the first Saturday of each May. You shoulda been there.

In addition to the REBRAND 100 award, his second (the first was for Autodesk in 2006), he has been recognized in CA‘s 2010 Interactive Annual for his Hard Rock work. He was also a One Show Interactive finalist for Hard Rock and a One Show Interactive winner for SFMOMA’s “Making Sense of Modern Art” interface. And his wise and witty musings were recently featured on Communications Arts‘ Insights blog.

He is secretly married to another D/C creative director and proud papa of two boys.

In her decade-plus at D/C, Anne’s work has been honored by Communication Arts, including CA‘s Advertising Annual, by the Graphis Annual (“100 Best in Advertising”), by the 4A’s, as a three-time finalist for the prestigious O’Toole Awards, Luerzer’s Archive and much more. She is married (not sure to whom) and mother of two. Most importantly, she was keyboardist (“the female John Paul Jones”) in the semi-well-known northwestern Pennsylvania Led Zeppelin tribute band, Black Dog. At D/C, her official title is creative director.

Her pre-D/C client experience includes Taco Bell, Dreyer’s Ice Cream, MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, Pearle Vision and The Wine Group. And at D/C, she oversees a ten-person communications planning department that is responsible for the planning and purchasing of media for, among others, StubHub, John Muir Medical Center and Hard Rock Hotels and Cafes. Leslie has an MBA from the renowned Thunderbird School of Global Management.

She is also a former professor at the Art Institute of California, and, in recent years, was elected president of the American Marketing Association, San Francisco chapter. A season ticket holder to the SF Symphony (la-di-da), she is married to an Englishman – but not Eric Clapton, whom she once talked to on the phone (long story).

Muny began his post-Series marketing career (read: actually got paid) at Martino Flynn Advertising in his native Rochester, NY, where he spent eight years crafting strategy and copy for accounts ranging from Kodak Dental Imaging and CooperVision Contact Lenses to Dick’s Sporting Goods, where he was lucky enough to work with with legendary sports figures like Terry Bradshaw, Jimmy Johnson and Ken Griffey, Jr.

In 2001, lured by the siren song of the West Coast, John headed to San Francisco for a stint as associate creative director at Publicis Dialog, creating both direct and brand campaigns for Texas Children’s Hospital, HP and Microsoft among others, before joining Duncan/Channon. At D/C, he has produced award-winning work for clients ranging from Esurance to Hard Rock to Birkenstock. John’s work has been featured on Good Morning America’s “Best Ads of the Year” segment and, most amazingly, a morning DJ once did a mash-up between one of his radio ads and the song “Take on Me” by the band a-ha. True story. John and fam, including his seven-year old son, kick it old-school in the East Bay.

3. Like my father before me, I worked at Sears Roebuck, selling garden tractors and lawn mowers. Unlike my father, I only did this through college.

4. I learned to program in BASIC when I was twelve. The first thing I programmed was an animated Pac-Man that simply opened and closed its mouth and said “Yum!” And it was beautiful.

5. I am obsessed with figuring out how things work. I don’t believe you truly own something until you take it apart and put it back together again.

6. At TBWA\Chiat\Day in Los Angeles, I worked with the Global Head of Marketing of Visa to visualize what “the future of money” might look like in a digital/mobile world. And I can tell you, it wasn’t green.

More things about Robbie (not by Robbie): Robbie built and oversaw the digital practice at Draftfcb, at TBWA\Chiat\Day LA and at Ignited Minds. His clients have included Nissan, Pepsi, Visa, Mars, Gatorade, Activision, Vivendi-Universal, Sony and Electronic Arts. He started as a reporter at a southern California newspaper – until the Perry White -like editor one day bellowed across the city room that he needed someone to build a website.