Jonathan Cude, Partner / Chief Creative Officer

Jonathan is that most wonderful of things, a home-grown promotion. He was named Executive Creative Director five years after joining McKinney, and Chief Creative Officer in May 2008. Just the fifth creative head in our 38-year history, Jonathan came to us from Wieden+Kennedy where he wrote for Nike and Diet Coke. He proved there that he could handle a broad range of styles from the humor of Nike “Streaker,” Creativity’s runner-up for ad of the year, to the inspiring drama of the 2003 Cannes Gold Lion winner, Nike “Before.”
Here, the teams that Jonathan has co-led have won a Cannes Lion, two One Show Pencils, an Andy, an Athena, two Yahoo! Creative Summit Purple Chairs, four IAB MIXX awards (including the inaugural best of show), and two Buzz awards while driving business performance worthy of three EFFIEs for efforts including Audi A3 “Art of the H3ist” and Sony Bravia “The World’s First Television for Men and Women.” We haven’t added it all up, but there’s billions of dollars in added topline client revenue tied to those ideas too. Jonathan’s a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.