ADC Announces Three New Board Members

ADC, the first global membership organization to celebrate and award the global creative community, announced three new members to its Board of Directors today: JWT’s Frédéric Bonn, Edelman’s Jimmie Stone and PARTY’s Masashi Kawamura.

Frédéric Bonn joined JWT in January 2014 as the Executive Creative Director of JWT in charge of all digital and social work for New York. Prior to JWT, Bonn was the Executive Creative Director of Razorfish New York, managing the creative department across all agency clients. His leadership and dedication to creative excellence made Razorfish a market leader, helping the agency earn a top spot on the 2013 Ad-Age A-List for a second consecutive year. He led the creative department of Ogilvy Interactive in Paris prior to Razorfish. Learn more about Bonn here.

Jimmie Stone is the Group Executive Creative Director of Edelman Digital and Edelman’s Creative Guild since 2012, and a driving force behind the integration of bold new creative thinking at the agency. Stone has led wins through cross-practice collaboration with top tier brands like GE, Pfizer, Unilever, Energizer, eBay, and Samsung. Jimmie is also responsible for the growth of Edelman’s creative content offering, including building a real-time response social media newsroom and best-in-class video content team in just under one year. Before joining Edelman, Jimmie was the Executive Creative Director of Green Team. Learn more about Stone here.

Masashi (Masa) Kawamura is the Executive Creative Director and Founder of the creative lab PARTY. Before PARTY, he was a Creative Director at Wieden + Kennedy New York, and has worked at BBH New York and 180 Amsterdam, creating numerous ad campaigns that have won at ADC Annual Awards, Cannes Lions, One Show, D&AD, Annecy Animation Film Festival and more. Kawamura was chosen as one of the Creativity’s “Creativity 50,” and Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People.” Outside of advertising, he continues to explore the world of design and interaction, working on music videos, product design, social apps and other endeavors. Learn more about Kawamura here.

“Phil and I are very happy to bring Frédéric, Jimmie and Masa’s energy onto our board. Their combined experience, wealth of ideas, and enthusiasm for ADC and its community will help us continue to improve and make a Club of which its members are proud to be a part,” said ADC Executive Director Ignacio Oreamuno.  

Learn more about the full ADC Board of Directors, currently under the direction of new Board President Philippe Meunier of Sid Lee, here.