
Claudio VERA
He is currently serving as Creative Director at Conill Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles.
He's former President of the Creative Circle of the U.S. Hispanic Market. He has more than 20 years of experience in advertising in the Hispanic Market, General Market, and South American Market. Today, he is one of the references to multicultural creativity in the United States.
Claudio has over 100 international creative recognitions, including some of the most prestigious festivals worldwide like Cannes, New York Festivals, London Festival, The Art Directors Club of Los Angeles, Festival Iberoamericano de la Publicidad (FIAP), El Ojo de Iberoamérica, and USH Idea Award, among others.
Throughout his long career, he managed the communication of a wide variety of brands like Toyota, Ford Motors, Fiat, Nestle USA, General Mills, Geico Insurance, Glaxo Smith and Kline, Xbox, Comcast, Discovery Networks, Procter and Gamble, McDonald's, etc.
Claudio has served as a jury member at the New York Festival Advertising Awards, the North American Effie Awards, Addy Awards, El Ojo de Iberoamérica, USH Idea Awards, Festival Iberoamericano de la Publicidad (FIAP), and Billboards Latin Music Marketing Awards.
And he has contributed to many agencies from the Hispanic, General Market, and South American market, like Casanova/Mccann, Deutsch, RGA, SCPF, Grupo Gallegos, We Believers, Zubi Advertising, and Leo Burnet Argentina, among others.
In the academic field, he had been a teacher at the Miami Ad School and organized creative seminars in Los Angeles and Miami as a partner of Brother USA (school of creativity)
He has a master's degree from the University of Business and Social Sciences (UCES). He holds two other degrees—in Visual Arts from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and Creativity from the Superior School of Advertising Creatives. All in Argentina, his hometown.