Great production isn't about perfection. It's about partnership.
For over a decade leading production at Mercedes-Benz, I learned that the best work happens when you truly understand what your clients need, what your creatives envision, and what's actually possible. That instinct lives at the intersection of trust, craft, and an unreasonable tolerance for pressure.
(It also once meant convincing Roger Federer to let me return one of his serves on set. That went about as well as expected.)
As Head of Creative Production at Merkley + Partners I spend my time growing talent and fostering the relationships that have made us the agency's secret weapon - proving that production can be both the problem-solver and the creative catalyst. Multiple Super Bowl campaigns, a shoot with the Coen Brothers, and countless impossible deadlines later, I'm still energized by the challenge of making great ideas come to life.
Off the clock, you'll find me in Brooklyn wrangling three kids, grinding on the tennis court, or at the poker table, where I've hosted a weekly industry game for 25 years and counting.
*Okay fine, two. But one of those was a pandemic, so it doesn't count.