Bob was appointed in April 2009 to the position of global CEO at Razorfish having served four years as president of the company's East region.
In his new role, he oversees the company's global operations and is leading the company's expansion into Latin America, among other parts of the world. With employees, clients and the marketplace, he is sharing his vision of a company that creates digital experiences to build businesses.
Bob has a passion for bringing big ideas and nimble thinking, and since joining Razorfish in 2000 Bob has helped Razorfish develop its business and gain several agency-of-record relationships. In 2004, Bob served as COO of Razorfish, prior to its merger with Avenue A.
Previously, Bob served as COO and executive vice president of Prism Rehab Systems, a professional services firm in the healthcare sector. Before Prism, he was a partner consultant with Symmetrix, a strategic systems re-engineering firm. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Engineering from Syracuse University.
Lee assumes responsibility for Razorfish operations across the Asia-Pac Region in January of 2009. In his role, Lee will build the Razorfish presence and capability within the region to serve the increasingly global needs of the Razorfish client base.
Between 2004 and 2008, Lee served as senior VP and general manager of Razorfish Global Solutions, a centralized unit providing services to clients within the US, Europe and Asia. Global Solutions encompasses business intelligence, search engine optimization, site optimization and email solutions. Each of the four practice areas applies proprietary technology and analytics to enhance the performance of clients’ digital marketing efforts.
From 2000 through 2003, Lee founded and built the agency’s analytics group, recognized by industry and clients as a core competency of Razorfish. Lee later served as the national discipline lead for analytics.
For five years prior to joining Razorfish, Lee held the position of managing consultant with Gemini Consulting, where he provided strategic marketing services to Fortune 100 firms within sectors such as financial services, telecommunications, life sciences, and chemicals. Lee holds an MBA degree from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor from Seattle University.
Andreas founded his own agency working alone in his living room, and has since grown it to service worldwide brands and employ more than 100 people. He oversees of our presence in Germany, which operates under the name Neue Digitale Razorfish. He is responsible for consulting, client service and new business. Andreas sits on the board of the German Association of Communication Agencies, and founded its section for interactive marketing. He founded Neue Digitale in September 1996.
Prior to this, Andreas worked for Pixel Factory, managing multimedia production and design projects. Before that he was an industrial designer at Witte Design. In 2006 he was voted “German Web Personality of the Year.” He holds a degree in Engineering and Economics from the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.
Since arriving at Duke Razorfish in January 2010, Olivier has already established his own brand of drive and passion for the industry, finding a natural home amongst the creative, technical and strategic minds who have made the agency so renowned. Prior to Duke Razorfish, Olivier Abel has a proud track record of working in communication at the very highest level and with the biggest brands. He joined the Marketing Services agency of the DDB Rapp Collins Group in 1994 and went on to occupy senior positions, first as Client Partner then as General Director.
As the new century arrived Olivier took over a division of BBDO, a task that required to him to bring together a vast range of on- and off-line activities for the eight agencies affiliated to Omnicom and implementing a complete change of model, from the vertical to the horizontal. In 2006, Olivier co-founded La Chose, creating a completely new model for a fully integrated agency in the process by bringing together experts in advertising, the Internet and CRM. Olivier has worked with many major clients including Sony, Mercedes-Benz, IKEA, Barclays Bank, Saab, and Red Bull.
A true Wysiwygger, Ignacio’s lived through all of the agency’s key phases in the last 10 years: he joined Wysiwyg/Razorfish in 2000 as strategic planner and became managing director in 2008, when the integration within Razorfish took place. Before that, in 2002 he was appointed head of the Strategy Planning Department and in 2008 he became General Manager for Strategy, a position of new creation within the structure of the agency.
Since he joined Wysiwyg/Razorfish in the year 2000, he has worked on planning, user experience and analytics projects for clients such as Diesel, Absolut, Burger King, Coca-Cola, Nokia, Volkswagen, Barclays, Atlético de Madrid, Camper, Loewe and BBVA. Ignacio, or just Nacho, holds a degree in Advertising and Public Relations from the Complutense University of Madrid.
Adolfo González has more than 10 years of experience in interactive agencies. He began his career as designer in Discoverynet, and later became art director for Netthink Carat. He joined Wysiwyg/Razorfish as Art Director in 2000 and three years later, in 2003, was promoted to Creative Director and finally, in 2004, to Executive Creative Director. In 2007 he left Wysiwyg/Razorfish to join, with the same position, CP Proximity, but he came back to Wysiwyg/Razorfish in 2008 to face a new project as Managing Director.
During his professional career he has been responsible for important and award-winning online projects at both national and international level, including: Nokia, Camper, Diesel, Vodafone, Mercedes, Burger King, Loewe, Lois, Cimarron, Ballantine`s...and he has had the opportunity to participate as jury in advertising festivals as El Sol, Laus, The New York Festivals, John Caples Internacional Awards, LIAA, CDC and IMAN.
Raymond Velez is the Global Chief Technology Officer for Razorfish. He manages Razorfish’s capabilities in web technology architecture and oversees the company’s more than 400 technologists globally. Ray has deep experience in the application development lifecycle, from inception to rollout, and has applied his expertise on many of Razorfish’s largest client implementations including Citibank, CondéNet, Ford Motor Company and the National Football League. Ray was also instrumental in Razorfish’s role as incubation partner for Bundle, a financial social media start-up.
Ray’s background includes architectural consulting in enterprise systems and strategic IT planning. He has trained and developed curriculums in various technologies and methodologies including the Rational Unified Process and Agile Methodologies. Ray’s experience includes fifteen years in the technology industry. Prior to Razorfish he served as a senior architectural consultant at Cambridge Technology Partners. He is a member of various professional associations, including IEEE and ACM.
Kokich oversees Razorfish's strategic direction, works directly with core accounts, represents Razorfish in the marketplace and develops thought leadership. He was appointed chairman in April 2009, a newly created position. For two years before that, Clark served as our CEO, leading our global expansion into the largest interactive services firm in the world. He was previously our worldwide president, a role he assumed in September 2005, prior to which he was president of our West region. He has also served as president of Avenue A, Seattle and Chicago; president of Digital Marketing Solutions, Seattle; SVP, Diversified Services; and VP + GM, Growth Markets Division. He’s been with us since 1999.
Before joining us, Clark was president and CEO of apparel retailer Calla Bay, head of sales and marketing for a division of McCaw Cellular Communications, and EVP + GM of Cole & Weber in Seattle. He is a member of the new digital board of the American Association of Advertising Agencies.