Blaise Douglas

Creative Director

Blaise studied at Saint Martins School of Art, leaving with a degree in graphic design. Having been in a band, done a stint as a photographer’s assistant and modeled for Paul Smith, he began writing for the BBC and GQ magazine. This ultimately led to him entering advertising where he worked on numerous brands for which he won a number of awards before gravitating to the more specialized area of fashion and beauty with his work on Rimmel, Coty fragrances, Glamour magazine, Giorgio Armani and Christian Louboutin shoes.

Having left advertising for a while to write feature films Blaise joined atelier in 2005.

Sarah Baumann

General Manager

Sarah is General Manager of atelier london. She started out in advertising and discovered she loved it and has been working in London agencies ever since, Sarah has worked on a wide and varied range of brands, focusing on developing integrated ideas and communications for all types and sizes of clients across beauty, retail, fashion, automotive and FMCG brands on a local and global basis.

Eleni Chalmers

Planning Director

Eleni has enjoyed a full and varied career as a strategic planner in the communications industry. She started in magazine publishing moving into the advertising world when she realised her heart was in helping to inspire ideas that inspire others. She also has experience as a qualitative researcher. She has also been awarded an IPA Effectiveness Award, an Effie and an APG US award.

Jim Franzen

EVP/General Manager Global Category Leader Haircare

Jim has devoted 15 years of his extended career in advertising to specializing in growing beauty brands. Working in North America and across Asia, he has helped to build strong brands and business results in haircare, skincare and cosmetics across more than 8 leading brands. Jim recently moved from Tokyo to head up our atelier in New York.

Kristin Moore-Gantz

SVP Creative Director

Kristin is an expert in the beauty category, with experience ranging from fragrance to skincare to makeup. In 2008 she brought her extensive industry knowledge to atelier New York where she creates superior global advertising campaigns as the Global Creative Director for P&G’s Global Herbal Essences brand.

Sofia Hernandez

VP Account Director

Sofia Hernandez joined atelier in 2010 where she leads the global haircare brands P&G and is part of the New Business team. With over 10 years experience leading multicultural and multinational integrated brand campaigns, her career has been filled with a diverse background of clients, cultures and experiences.

Betsy Csatorday

SVP/Strategic Planning Director

Betsy’s passion for brand building is evident the first time you meet her. Energized and visionary, she delights in creating the strategic underpinning that brands need for robust consumer relationships and growth. Working in Europe & North America, Betsy has played a key role in shaping brands such as Dove, Bausch & Lomb, Celebrity Cruises, Mastercard, Telefonica, Rockport and Terra Networks, to name a few.

Stephen Wille

SVP/Creative Director

With more than two decades of experience creating and producing award winning content that builds leadership brands, Stephen has been a creative director for such iconic brands as Polo/Ralph Lauren, Levi Straus & Co., Lancôme, Vera Wang at Kohl’s, Versace, Maybelline and many more. Stephen’s range helps every brand find it’s unique connection with consumers in ways that build passionate desire.

Margaret Chan

Director

Margaret has accumulated a wealth of brand management experience across a wide spectrum of client businesses. Becoming Management Supervisor in 2006, her current portfolio includes CSL, Hang Seng Bank, Emperor Group, Kowloon Dairy and Just Gold.

Annie Chan

Creative Chief

Annie Chan has been working in advertising for 20 years. In 2003, she joined Leo Burnett, working on SKII (GC). She’s now working on Rejoice, The Emperor Group and Wing Tai properties - Giverny. In 2009, besides Creative Director of LB, she also became the Creative Chief of atelier, working on creme de la creme products.

Helen Heatley

Regional Director

Helen's beauty experience reaches across mass to mastige FMCG brands to very premium experiential brands including Chanel, Lux, Rejoice, Schwarzkopf, Henkel, Moschino, D&G and Sisley. She has spent the last 4 years working in the North East Asian market managing Hair and Skin brands within the WPP network. Now based in Hong Kong heading up Hair Care for Proctor and Gamble Greater China.

Youssef Naaman

Regional Operations Director

Youssef leads global communications for Camay as well as the regional communications for P&G Haircare which includes brands like: Herbal Essences, Wella, Shamtu and Pert Plus. Youssef is also the P&G Regional Operations Director for CEEMEA and is the account head of atelierBeirut and member of the atelier global leadership team.

Bechara Mouzzannar

Creative Head

Bechara has helped build the creative reputation of LB internationally on the advertising awards scene and was a teacher of Advertising & Graphic Design at the American University of Beirut. He is currently the creative head for atelier Beirut and heads up the P&G regional creative team brands such as Herbal Essences, pert Plus, Shamtu, Camay and Wella.

John Junas

Group Business Director

John started his career in advertising with Saatchi NY, before turning his hand to marketing brands such as Avon, Estee Lauder, Clinique and Aramis. His career with Estee Lauder spanned over 15 years in Japan and the US. John joined atelier in Tokyo in 2010 to lead the SKII brand globally.

Claudia Cristovao

Global Creative Head

Claudia has extensive global experience as a writer and Creative Director. Born in Angola, she was raised in Lisbon and went on to live in Copenhagen, Tokyo, London, and Amsterdam. From her early start in Lisbon (BBDO/Bates) she moved to work on Nike first in Amsterdam and then in Tokyo, followed by a CD position for Adidas. She joined atelier-LB as the global creative head for the SKII prestige skincare brand.

Andreas Laeufer

Executive Creative Director

Andreas is considered one of the most influential art directors in magazine publishing for the past 10 years. He co-founded TANK magazine in 1998, which is still considered a bible and benchmark for the creative industry. In 2005, Andreas moved from London to Berlin to open a new agency LB-atelier Andreas Laeufer Berlin specialising in the creation, design and production of communication for the fashion industry.