STEFANIE SEGAR

Before COLLINS:, I worked at Crispin Porter + Bogusky where I cultivated environments for ideas to thrive. Through that experience, I learned the difference between good account people and great account people: the great ones ask “why not?”, spread knowledge and focus on solutions rather than processes. It’s a subtle, but critical difference between ideas that live in the world and ideas that live on paper.

JASON NUTTALL

The act of creation is a moral choice. Everything put into the world influences it toward a positive or negative value. That’s why, as a maker, I have a sense of responsibility. I don’t create negative influences. Nor do I create junk. Whether at Showtime, BIG or now with COLLINS:, my creative duty has always been the same: push the world toward the positive.

JOHN FULBROOK III

Books, best-seller lists, The New York Times Magazine, exhibitions, restaurant design, political illustration, teaching, Boards of Directors and a million cups of coffee led me to question the limits of conventional design work. Obsessed with storytelling, I want to break rules and create more engaging experiences that inspire people.

BRIAN COLLINS

For almost a decade I led the brand and innovation division of Ogilvy & Mather. We built communications and design solutions for some of the world’s most iconic companies including Unilever, Kraft, Mattel, Motorola, AT&T, Coca-Cola and American Express. We worked hard and developed a reputation for doing good work.

Still, I thought there was a different way to take advantage of the changes driving new technology and marketing. I wanted to invent new ways to connect people with emerging ideas and brands. So my partners and I set out to create a firm to do just that.

DAN SUTTON

Before COLLINS:, I led the global Mac team at Apple’s marketing communications and design group where I championed “authentic marketing.” It’s my term for marketing that comes from a desire to teach and help. I believe when marketing is motivated by these desires, the “salesman feel” vanishes. In doing so, it enriches the moment without calling attention to itself.

LELAND MASCHMEYER

For years I made ads for NASDAQ, Travelocity and Virgin Atlantic. Though none of my ideas were really intended to be ads. I always tried to make them something bigger. I tried to make marketing that mattered to people. That stood out in their lives not because it disrupted them, but because it uplifted them. The way I see it: creating social change creates pocket change.