Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners is adding to the depth of its creative department with the promotion of Mark Krajan to Creative Director.
Krajan has worked at BSSP for almost four years as an Associate Creative Director where he has played a major role in highly recognized campaigns for MINI, T-Mobile, Google, Priceline and others. Among the stand out campaigns that he has co-created are the top-ranked 2014 Super bowl spots featuring Tim Tebow for T-Mobile, the Win/Small MINI Campaign for the Olympics and the recent MINI spots featuring Tony Hawk.
“Mark is a true creative leader who encourages great thinking from others,” noted John Butler, Executive Creative Director at BSSP. “He’s made significant contributions to the work moving our ideas across platforms and channels, and along with Creative Directors Tom Coates and Lyle Yetman, will continue to deliver great work for our clients.
Krajan joined BSSP in 2011 from SA-5 (now Teak) a small agency he co-founded with such clients as Logitech, Yahoo, SF Travel and others. Previous to that, he worked at McCann SF, TBWA/Chiat Day in LA and as a freelancer at numerous agencies.
His promotion follows several high profile wins by BSSP in the past two months including Nature Made and Draft Kings.
BSSP, is a full-service marketing communications agency based in Sausalito, CA, providing services in advertising, online marketing, web development, data analytics, media strategy and buying, brand identity, design and strategic brand consulting. BSSP is one of the largest independent agencies in the West and is known for providing highly creative, fully accountable marketing solutions to a broad array of marketers including Nature Made, Draft Kings, Priceline, MINI Cooper, HTC, Blue Shield of California, Greyhound, El Pollo Loco, Sunrun and others. Adweek named BSSP Small Agency of the Decade, and Outside magazine recognized the agency by putting it on their list of Best Places to Work in America in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Further, Forbes.com deemed BSSP "one of the top 10 agencies in the country” in 2012. BSSP is a member of Worldwide Partners, a group of 95 independent agencies around the world.