Experience
Founder
Chris Stern Creative, New York, NY | 2017 – Present
• A pioneering force in the art of building brands, with an innovative approach that fuses creativity and strategy to transform concepts into living, breathing brand narratives.
• Reinventing brands through cultural insights to deliver creative storytelling and design assets that result in substantial business growth.
• Cultivated lasting relationships with clients, go-to-market partners, and celebrity talent. Clients include Campari Group, CBC, FIFCO, Will Smith, Marc Anthony, Iron Chef Jose Garces, and others.
VP, Executive Creative Director
WME|IMG, New York, NY | 2015 – 2017
• Built a world-class creative team, responsible for developing and producing bespoke marketing platforms, new business presentations and experiential activations for all WME | IMG owned and managed brands.
• Conceptualized new brand ventures for licensing, apparel design, and event global divisions.
Partner, Head of Creative
Safari Sundays, New York, NY | 2009 – 2014
• Led agency creative and assembled a team responsible for the growth of Safari Sundays into a full service boutique agency.
• Created groundbreaking programs for world-class companies, including PepsiCo, XIX Entertainment, Lewis Hamilton, bobble, and Weleda Skincare.
Group Creative Director
TracyLocke SoHo, New York, NY | 2007 – 2009
• Creative lead for the SoHo division of TracyLocke, where he was responsible for creative platform development and design direction spanning print, POS, OOH and packaging.
• Clients included PepsiCo, Gatorade, Propel, Tropicana, 7Up, Quaker, Frito-Lay.
VP, Creative
Bad Boy Entertainment, New York, NY | 2001 – 2007
• Created and molded campaigns, identities and design for all of Sean Combs’ brands, including Bad Boy Entertainment, Sean John, licensing ventures and Mr. Combs’ personal brand image, events and activations.
Art Director
Arista Records, New York, NY | 1993 – 2001
• Responsible for creative campaigns, logo design, CD packaging and advertising for a wide variety of artists across the Arista Family of Labels.