About us...
The desire to create serious work
minus the serious attitude.
We are a leading brand consultancy formed in 1992. We are headquartered in New York with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Cincinnati. Our clients include many of the world’s most respected organizations including Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, Disney, Bayer, Google, Visa, Time Warner, T-Mobile, Abbott Laboratories and Pepsico. We became part of the Omnicom family in 2008.
We do three things really well—brand strategy, brand design and brand innovation—all of which are guided and fueled by a deep interest and understanding of customer and cultural insight. As a relationship-based business, we are collaborative by nature and work closely with our client partners to deliver fresh, inspiring, high quality work.
We have a high metabolic rate that sets the pulse rate of our business and which in turn inspires and energizes our clients. We always provide a passionate and well thought out point of view. And we are obsessed with creating an outcome that will make a difference in the marketplace.
We have a deep and genuine fascination about the relationships that exist between people and brands and we take the greatest satisfaction in applying this knowledge to deliver extraordinary work for our clients, everyday.
Executive Team
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Simon Williams
CEOSimon has been the inspiration and energy behind the group’s success since founding the business in New York in 1992.
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Austin McGhie
President Strategy GroupBased in our San Francisco office, Austin has been President of the Strategy Group at Sterling Brands since joining in 2002.
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Debbie Millman
President Design GroupDebbie has been a major influence in building the firm’s creative business since joining Sterling Brands in 1995.
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DeeDee Gordon
President Innovation GroupDeeDee is the most recent addition to the executive team at Sterling Brands, joining the company in Fall 2010, as president of the Innovation Group based in Los Angeles.
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