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Andy Berkenfield
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 Suzanne.
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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. Born in Sheboygan (!), he moved to New York in grade school and has lived in Fairfax, CA, for 20 years. He “attended” NYU (which probably means he didn’t graduate). At D/C, for obvious reasons, he serves as CD for Hard Rock. Also for obvious reasons, he has always dreamed of getting penis-reduction surgery. Bob “Robert” Duncan (aka Duncan, Pops or, legally, Ppppzzzzzz™) is executive creative director and partner.
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After attending UC Berkeley, Parker began his career at Foote, Cone & Belding/San Francisco. In addition to helping Pacific Bell 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.
As a partner and executive creative director at D/C, Parker has worked with nearly every major videogame company in the world, selling countless titles and garnering industry honors galore. He has also developed the innovative – and award-winning – multimedia campaign that helped Clos du Bois grow from under a million cases to more than two, and he heads the creative crew responsible for mesmerizing the well-heeled into acquiring luxury condos from, among others, Tishman Speyer. Celebrating his bourbon-soaked Louisville lineage, Parker hosts a Kentucky Derby party the first Saturday of each May which should, under no circumstances, be missed.
(Collapse)Anne Elisco-Lemme
In her decade at D/C, she started out by building an art department that is second to none and then went on to raise the bar on the agency’s creative output across the board. She has also been instrumental in new business. Her comprehensive knowledge of wine (again, thanks to dad – who seems to have been some kind of pusher, if you ask me) was key to winning the Clos du Bois account and to turning that, over the years, into award-winning work for more than 22 domestic and international wine brands. Recently, she served as creative director and art director for the re-launch of Birkenstock, as well as the re-branding of Ruffino.
Anne Elisco-Lemme 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.
(Collapse)Leslie Diard
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 has been responsible for the planning and purchasing of media for, among others, Clos du Bois, Geyser Peak, GH Mumm, Perrier Jouet, Brancott, Cockburn’s, Hard Rock and Birkenstock. Leslie has an MBA from the renowned Thunderbird School of Global Management.
She is also a former professor at the prestigious Art Institute of California. And recently, we’re proud to report, she 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).
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He has won several major awards, including a One Show for interactive and two REBRAND 100 Global Awards for the relaunch of Hard Rock (2007 Best of Show) and Autodesk (2006). His work has also been honored twice in the Communication Arts Interactive Annual.
He is married (see above) and proud father of two boys.
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(Collapse)Jacqueline Fodor
Curiously enough, more than a decade before she shepherded the Hard Rock relaunch through a maze of pre-press houses and printers, Jacqueline worked as a waitress at the Hard Rock Beverly Hills. As an English major at UC Berkeley, she was a protege of the poet June Jordan. And she took a brief detour from her print production trajectory to produce and direct late-night infomercials.
She started her ad career as print producer and art buyer at several prominent San Francisco boutique agencies and ended up managing print production for Dell’s direct mail consumer catalog, which involved a two-million-dollar monthly budget and 30 million catalogues. In her first 18 months at Duncan/Channon, she completely restructured the production department, assuming management of the studio and art buying, as well as print production. Her efforts for Clos du Bois’ Marlstone Anniversary took home a Best of Division in this year’s ADDYs, while her production for the Hard Rock benefit CD, “Serve,” helped the agency earn ADDY gold. She was recently married to Marc (in Hungary, of course).
(Collapse)John Munyan
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 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, his wife and five-year old son kick it old-school in the East Bay.
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