PABLO LEIVA

Partner Athos Group

Santa Cruz, Bolivia
This is the place where part of my work developments and creations as General Creative Director at Puerto, Tropa Grey, TBWA/Frederick and my nowadays position at ATHOS/TBWA Bolivia, meet.
In all these agencies I had the honor to work with great creative minds; many of them left the country to build their professional careers abroad while others have taken the creative leadership in different agencies of the national market in Chile. From all of them, i kept the memory of all those worked nights with tireless effort, that allowed us to have days with recognitions and awards. Whithout all these amazing people, this portfolio wouldnt exist.
The following work is the sum of human factor, creatives and believers, opportunities and why not: a drop of luck.

Work Experience

TBWA/FREDERICK

Executive Creative Director

2007 - 2009 Santiago, Chile

SERÁS
. School Of Business & Superior Creativity


CEO

2006 - 2007 Santiago, Chile

Grey

Executive Creative Director

2002 - 2005 Santiago, Chile

Puerto

Owner Executive Creative Director

2000 - 2002 Santiago, Chile

DDB Chile

Creative Director

1996 - 2000 Santiago, Chile

Leo Burnett Chile

Art Director

1994 - 1996 Santiago, Chile

Publicis

Art Director

1992 - 1994 Santiago, Chile

Work Experience

Adolfo Ibañez University

Teacher of Creativity

2006 - 2009 Santiago, Chile

Universidad Del Pacífico

Teacher of Creativity

2006 - 2007 Santiago, Chile

Education

Diego Portales University


MBA Estrategic Comunication

2003 - 2004 Santiago, Chile

UTEM University

Comunicador Visual

1987 - 1991 Santiago, Chile

Verbo Divino School


1972 - 1985 Santiago, Chile

Languages

English (Conversational),

Awards

Wave Festival Brasil

Press Jury

2010

Achap Festival Chile

All Categories 1998-2009

2008

Caribe Festival, Panama

All Categories

2005

Condor Festival Ecuador

All Categories

2004

Festival Iberoamericano De La Publicidad (FIAP)

Creativity in Media

2004

República Dominicana Festival

All Categories

2001

Festival Iberoamericano De La Publicidad (FIAP)

All Categories

2001

Awards

Caribe Festival, Panama

Conference Speaker

2005

Condor Festival, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Conference Speaker

2004

Desáchate Festival, Uruguay

Conference Speaker

2004

Awards

Ojo De Iberoamérica

Best Executive Creative Director

2011

Cannes Lions

Bronze Outdoor. Pedigree

2010

Cannes Lions

Gold Media, Carabineros Chile

2003

Cannes Lions

Bronze Outdoor, Pringles

2003

Ojo De Iberoamérica

Best Executive Creative Director of Chile


2003

More 150 Awards

National and International Festivals

2010

Additional Information

Professional Profile: Summary Customer oriented and focused on delivering high performance services and support. Result oriented, both on acquiring new accounts and growing the creative assets and awards.
Team builder, with proficient working skills in coaching and developing creative talents, with a clear focused on liberating individual leadership and the sense of common accomplishment, as could be appreciated in my experience with Grey Chile and TBWA 1.- Transforming Grey Chile to Tropa Grey:
2004
Grey as an advertising agency, was experimenting a serious slowdown in business and creativity. This resulted in headcount reduction plus an important decrease on organizational climate, customer’s base erosion and lack of creative awards.

In order to revert this process I worked on a transformation plan, forming new teams, incorporating new talented young creatives in addition to improving existing ones, with the common goal of repositioning the agency into the top 10 Chilean advertising agencies in terms of revenue and top 5 in terms of creativity awards.

As a result of a well suited plan with clear goals assumed by the entire team, during 2004 we were awarded with the only 2 Lions won by a Chilean creative team, awarded with the Best Creative Director of Chile in the Ojo de Ibearoamérica festival ( Argentina) and finalizing that year with the local Achap Festival awards on more than 10 categories. In consistency with this creative explosion, new customers were acquired and revenues raised as budgeted.

 2.- Gloria, pushing internal creativity to the edge on TBWA:
2008
The challenge was set to improve customer oriented alignment and creativity. For that purpose, Gloria was created as a creative collaboration workshop with the active participation of creative teams and account executives, in order to create new business ideas for key customers.

This strategy resulted in several succeeding stories like the Adoption Campaign for Pedigree wish was awarded within the Top 5 on Advertising Edge with a bronze in Cannes Festival, and the Adidas Marathon 2008, wish increased the number of competitors over 30% from previous year, with a vast exposition on the local media ( TV, magazines and newspapers) and it was awarded with the Grand Prix 360° on the Achap festival.

In addition to this recognition, my creative colleagues appointed me as President of the Creative Circle of Chile, position that I am proud to currently lead.
 Multinational Brands Experience

Glaxo, P&G, Nestlé, Maggi, TIGO, FINO, BMW, Suzuki, Pedigree, Nivea BDF, 3M, Adidas, McDonald’s, Sketcher, Greenpeace, Unicef, Hasbro, British American Tobacco, Lan, Itaú Bank (Ex Bank of Boston), GSK, P&G.

Product & Service categories experience
Supermarket, Department Stores, Foods (Rice, Flour, Bread, Snacks), Chocolates, Candies, Telecommunication, TV Channels, TV Cable, Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Pharmacy Store, Insurance Companies, Opticians Stores, Presidential Candidate, Senator Candidate, Universities, Estate Agencies, Cemetery, Mineral Water, Foods.