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Andrew is Executive Director for CourtAvenue, ADWEEK's #1 fastest growing agency. He leads the firm's LA office with a focus on the telecom, media, and technology vertical. Based in Los Angeles, Andrew has been leading and scaling digital transformation, marketing, and customer experience businesses for over two decades, with success at every level from start-ups to large public companies. He has worked across nearly every industry with a focus on digital marketing strategy, sales, operations, and delivery. In the process, he has led many of the most successful engagements across sites, apps, social, and campaigns. These include the first full episodes of TV on digital platforms for ABC, the first live and on-demand Olympics experience for NBC (both of which won Emmys), Comcast's Xfinity TV product, Sony's Playstation 4, and countless other campaigns and solutions across mobile, desktop, TV, experiential, outdoor, and every conceivable digital medium. After building some of the web's foundational digital properties, Andrew co-founded Schematic, and built it into the world's premier customer experience agency (CX) agency. He grew it from a 3-person unfunded startup in to a global leader with over 200 staff before selling the company to WPP. Once he joined WPP, he helped create POSSIBLE, the first global digital agency network, where he led the user experience practice and ran the Los Angeles market. In the growth of POSSIBLE, he was a key part of acquiring and merging 14 different companies around the world into a single, thriving entity. As WPP continued to consolidate, Andrew was instrumental in the creation of Wunderman Thompson (now VML), the largest merger in the advertising industry. He had full P&L and operations responsibility for 5 offices and 300+ staff and reported to the global CEO. In addition, he led selected engagements for automotive, media & entertainment, healthcare, and technology clients focusing on CX, data, Salesforce integration, business transformation, and campaigns. Andrew’s work has received numerous awards, including Emmy, Cannes Lion, Peabody, Pencil, Webby, and JD Power.