George Tannenbaum
Founder, Creative. GeorgeCo, LLC, a Delaware Company
George Tannenbaum has spent well over half his life in the advertising business yet he still manages to be a nice guy. As the founder of GeorgeCo., LLC, a Delaware Company, George currently makes his advertising living working directly for clients that range from pre-revenue start-ups all the way to the Fortune 50.
Before that, George spent five years at Ogilvy helping run his dream account: IBM. George also worked at Ogilvy on IBM from 1999-2004. Before Ogilvy, George worked for five years as executive creative director at R/GA – running the Ameriprise business, R/GA’s first traditional-advertising account.
George has also worked for some of America's most storied agencies, including Hal Riney and Partners, Ally & Gargano and Lowe. George has won major awards for both creativity and effectiveness in four media channels: traditional, direct, interactive and experiential. He's won a total of 15 Effies, including the Grand Effie and the 5/50 Sustaining Effie. He might be the only person on earth to have done that.