Jan Jacobs

In 2007, Jan co-founded Johannes Leonardo based on the philosophy that the consumer has become the new medium. In the ten years since co-founding the agency, Jan has helped some of the world’s most influential brands. His work for Google helped to usher traditional storytelling into the modern age and resulted in the mobile Grand Prix at the Cannes advertising festival. His strikethru campaign for adidas has contributed to an unprecedented turnaround for the company, and just this year was awarded the Entertainment for Music Grand Prix at the same festival. In addition to winning every industry accolade. Jan has twice been featured as one of Creativity's 50 most influential creative people and prior to launching Johannes Leonardo, served as ECD at Saatchi & Saatchi New York where his work on P&G’s Tide’s 2008 Super Bowl spot helped the commercial be named one of the top 20 Super Bowl ads of all time by AdAge.