Jennifer has a passion for driving positive change, bringing people together and making good happen. Thus, our Good Wins mission. She is asked to speak around the country on strategy and marketing trends. As CEO she provides vision and thought leadership for our agency and our clients, and has been recognized multiple times as a top woman in business. A granddaughter of an original Mad Man, Jennifer is an expert in a wide range of industries including financial services, healthcare, lottery and consumer packaged goods, to name a few. She’s an explorer at heart. From Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, she’s traveled to 49 of 50 states. Watch out Alaska, you’re next.

Chris dispels the rumor that gifted creative leaders must be difficult. He has a willingness to ask the hard question for the smart answer and create brands that organizations are proud to wear on a T-shirt. Chris has built a reputation for helping clients do the best work of their careers. He’s received numerous national and international personal accolades for client success stories like Target, UCare, Taco John’s, YMCA, Johnsonville, Frontier Airlines, Mariano’s, Minnesota Zoo and the Colorado Rockies. He has One Show Pencils, Cannes Lions, over a dozen Effies and has work and clients in MOMA, and both the radio and retail halls of fame. He’d love recognition for his skiing and bike riding skills, but so far, nobody’s biting.

Victor (aka VK) became our agency’s first CMO because he wanted to be part of an independent agency passionate about creating brand experiences people want to spend time with. Makes sense, because his job is to show brand leaders that our Good Wins promise isn’t just a virtue, but a competitive advantage for their brands. In his storied NYC to MN career (Fallon, to Deutsch, to Ogilvy, to Periscope, to Preston Spire), Victor helped deliver sustainable growth for clients in CPG, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, state lottery, technology and travel with various national/global performance awards to boot. But his mom in Brazil still thinks he directs TV commercials and designs video games. It keeps her happy–and Victor humble.

Misty grew up in the shadow of the famous Wall Drug billboards in her native South Dakota. She understands traffic building at an 80mph interstate level. Misty brings not just total commitment but also a sense of humor to everything she does. As our head of account management, that comes in handy. Along with an enviable breadth of b2c and b2b experience from long tenure on UnitedHealthcare and 3M. Misty was drawn to our Good Wins positioning because she believes in the good marketing can do, for our clients and our community.

Jeannette has one of those scary good brains that can retain every detail of an integrated media plan while she tells you the context of the content she’s placing, all without checking her notes. She’s spent a career at the forefront of media thinking for global technology and finance networks, Fortune 500 companies like Cargill, 3M and General Mills…and at Preston Spire on Kennedy Krieger Institute, Mass General Brigham Health Plans, Medtronic, and Western National Insurance. When she’s not growing businesses, she grows super high-yield “square foot” gardens and a sourdough starter named Quentin Tartine-tino. Ask her for a loaf of heaven.

Ron cut his teeth on the East Coast with brands like Heineken, New Balance and Dunkin Donuts as well as the most successful wine of its time, Yellow Tail. And while that last one might lead you to question his taste, his 20 years of strategic and account management experience is unsurpassed. Global food leader Hormel will confirm this. As will Preston Spire clients like Eyebobs, Mass General Brigham Health Plan, Elkay, Medtronic and NoDoz. Ron loves to invite creative directors to his office and point out creative awards his strategies have led to including Grand Clios, One Show Pencils and Addy Best in Show. Despite this annoying habit, Ron is a wonderful father of two, a youth hockey coach, board president of his kids’ Montessori school, and pretty much our agency poster child for a Good Wins leader.

Mel makes her teams look good by making every piece of her work smart, stylish and sensitive. Or, when called for, just plain hilarious. Either way, she consistently does work that is not only welcome in peoples’ lives, but also by Communication Arts, The One Show, and the Effie Awards. After “Did somebody say McDonald’s?” Staples’ “That Was Easy” and “hello future,” for Lincoln Financial Group at prior agencies, Mel has helped build UCare into Minnesota’s health plan marketing phenomenon, recruit over 2 million members for the YMCA, and grow Be The Match from 6 to 12 million marrow donors in just two years. On early mornings and weekends, Melissa is known to attend boot camps at local Ys. She has then been known to go home and make some of the best fried chicken you’ve ever tasted.

Tyler has a cross-over blend of talents and experience that all too many digital people claim and all too few actually deliver. His creative, analytical, strategic and social skill set is belied by his “jazz band” dress and demeanor. His analytics presentations are so dynamic they have been known to draw people company-wide at clients like Cargill, Comcast, SuperValue and Security Health Plan. His seamless collaboration with our creative and media teams on, Kennedy Krieger Institute, NoDoz and Medtronic is a testament to his having held creative and media roles at previous agencies. Tyler can talk SEM, GTM and CRM, but he is just as happy to discuss the merits of vinyl records and open-fire cooking.

We finally lured Jessa back to us from her role managing the digital experience at international furniture phenomenon Blu Dot. As a boomerang to Preston Spire, she co-directs our digital department and settles the odd coffee table vs side-table debate. In her low-key style, Jessa calmly led successful strategy initiatives at Thomson Reuters and CURiO Brands before developing award-winning strategic work for Preston Spire on Lifespark, Catholic Health Initiatives, Paisley Park and Ameriprise. When she’s not attending the latest Spoon concert, Jessa is an eclectic interior designer, and deeply invested in discovering the best burger in Minnesota. (So far it’s All Saints Restaurant, NE Mpls)

Beth Elmore is what we mean by good people. She builds custom production processes, with the checks and balances critical to achieving our ridiculously high creative standards. As a veteran art buyer, she creates win-win negotiations for our clients with the highest integrity and taste. She’ll also find you a pygmy hippo photographer, import 500 laugh buttons, or score the perfect illustrator for an animated snot wheel during cold and flu season. But tasteful. Always tasteful. Without hyperbole, Beth could be called the backbone of our agency.

After 30 years of building her rock-solid financial foundation, Maria is not only keeping us viable as our controller, but she’s also building Preston Spire’s Good Wins mission into the best HR philosophy in the business. Maria believes in a constantly evolving version of people-centric thinking with practical and commonsense policies and embracing tech efficiencies and controls. She partners on our talent strategies and leadership initiatives while ensuring we have a supremely human and humane work environment. To meet Maria is to trust Maria.

Nina brings over 20 years of project management and integrated production expertise to melding campaigns seamlessly across all channels, and has the chops to execute print, broadcast, digital, social and everything in between. You want something done, she’ll figure out how to do it. In managing the process and progress of all work throughout the agency, Nina thrives on building trust across all departments. She’s a self-proclaimed cat lady and best Auntie ever, and if there’s a big concert in town, you know she’ll be there!