Ali Brown brings expansive knowledge of industry production and distinct taste in storytellers to her roles as President and Partner of award-winning production company PRETTYBIRD and Academy Award-nominated creative studio Ventureland. Under Brown’s leadership, PRETTYBIRD’s work and roster continue to be recognized on the global stage with top honors from Cannes Lions, One Show, Clio Awards, D&AD, and the AICP Awards, as well as being named Ad Age’s Production Company of the Year twice. Between 2024 and 2025, the company and its projects earned 182 distinctions across award wins, shortlists, and longlists, including an Emmy nomination for the award darling “Michael CeraVe” spot. In 2025, PRETTYBIRD was named Production Company of the Year at the Clio Awards and ranked No. 2 on Ad Age’s Production Company A-List, cementing its status as a powerhouse in the commercial Arena. In 2026 alone PRETTYBIRD produced four of the top ranking Super Bowl spots, with three of them directly EP’d by Brown.

Brown co-founded Ventureland in 2020 alongside Oscar-winning producer John Battsek and PRETTYBIRD partners Kerstin Emhoff and Paul Hunter. Her creative vision continues to drive compelling scripted and unscripted storytelling, executive producing Netflix’s Emmy-winning Beckham, Academy Award-nominated Bobi Wine: The People’s President, Apple TV+’s Government Cheese starring David Oyelowo, and Hulu’s Daytime Emmy-winning docuseries Searching for Soul Food. She also executive-produced Netflix’s American Manhunt anthology, with its 2025 installments on O.J. Simpson and Osama bin Laden becoming global streaming hits as well as K2:The Last Winter one of 2026 Sundance’s largest doc sales. Further demonstrating her commitment to bold, original storytelling, Brown has produced a wide range of films - from the Netflix hit Murder in Monaco to the 7 part film component for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2025 Good News Mass – a multi-sensory, multimedia collaboration between composer Carlos Simon and acclaimed director Melina Matsoukas.

Internationally recognized for her leadership and insight, Brown has served as an ANDY’s Global Juror, ranked in the top 10 for Creativepool’s Creative of the Year, acted as President of the New York Festivals Advertising Film Craft Jury, was a repeat speaker at Ciclope, juror for multiple other award shows including the One Show, was President of the Direction Jury at D&AD, and served twice as the AICP Show Chairperson. She previously made history as the first female president of Cannes’ Young Directors Award Jury. Deeply committed to inclusion, Brown founded “Double the Line,” an initiative aimed at increasing opportunities for BIPOC talent in advertising and serves on the boards of Manifest Works and Minorities in Film.

Continuing to nurture talent and expand company offerings, Brown remains dedicated to pushing creative boundaries, shaping impactful stories, and solidifying her place as a leader in global advertising and entertainment. In 2025, she was accepted into the PGA for her film and television work.

Edward Burns has made 14 feature films as a writer-director-actor and has starred in many films, most notably Saving Private Ryan. Burns’ first film The Brothers McMullen, premiered in competition at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury prize. The film also won "Best First Feature" at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards. He is currently in production on his new film, Millers in Marriage for Paramount Global. This fall, Burns is publishing first novel, A Kid from Marlboro Road, with Seven Stories Press. Ed Burns was born in Woodside, Queens and raised on Long Island. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

With the ambition to help perpetuate John Hegarty’s famous words “We haven’t come this far to be ordinary,” Deb Archambault re-joined BBH US as the Head of Production. In a world where a brief could become anything, her specialty is solving projects with no roadmap across all mediums and platforms. From middle of the night installs on Wall Street to overnight shoots in Bangkok, Deb has played a role in countless projects of varying sizes and is excited to bestow her knowledge on the next generation of producers rising the ranks of the BBH halls.

Prior to the boomerang,  Deb started out doing in-house casting at Deutsch NY, embraced the concept of integrated production at Publicis NY, and challenged the concept of a love song at McCann NY. She has produced some of the most iconic and awarded advertising of the past decade,  projects like Fearless Girl, Universal Love, Godiva Box within a Box and Hope Stems.  

She can often be found slope side or dancing in the backyard with her two children, and husband in suburban NY.

Nikki Baker, together with her creative partner Leslie Shaffer, are Co-CCOs at Fallon. With a deliberate “no house style,” over the years Nikki and Leslie have overseen work from a wide range of clients including Arby’s, Mattress Firm, KeyBank, and ESPN, to name a few. Today, while Leslie focuses on Fallon, Nikki is the CCO of Publicis Groupe’s Walmart creative partnership, which includes overseeing creative work from a collective of five agencies, including Fallon. Prior to Fallon, Nikki and Leslie created a lot of memorable and award-winning work for a variety of clients including the “Transfarency” brand platform for Southwest Airlines, McDonald’s, Porsche, and ConAgra Foods. Along with Leslie, Nikki has been named to Adweek’s Top 50 Creatives and Business Insider’s 30 Most Creative Women in Advertising. Their work has been recognized by Cannes, Clio Awards, One Show, D&AD, and more. Nikki lives in Minneapolis with her dog Stanley.

My career path has been unique as I’ve been in highly creative roles that have also needed very strong managerial skills to drive business results, not just creative ones. I’ve led world class creative teams at Ogilvy & Mather and DDB Tribal, built from scratch a fully integrated in-house agency at draftLine (AB-InBev), led the brand campaigns and creative team at a tech company, and currently I’m the leading change at a Global PR agency, taking the creative from PR tactics to billion-impression earning campaigns.

My 19+ years of experience in the creative industry isn’t just varied in the type of work I do, it’s varied in who the work is made for. I’ve worked in three different countries and the work itself has been awarded at Cannes, Clio, One Show and Effies among others. Thanks to my professional accolades, I’ve been invited to be a mentor and teacher at the most prestigious creative programs in the world, such as D&AD New Blood Academy, Professor at Miami Ad School & Instructor at One Creator Lab (The One Club for Creativity). And I’ve had the honor of being part of the Jury at world renowned creative shows such as One Show, Webby Awards, New York Festival, Effie North America, Canadian Marketing Association Award (CMA), and more.

You're no stranger to this Emmy-winning creative’s work. Bianca Guimaraes is behind cultural thunders like Sandy Hook Promise’s Back to School Essentials, Thinx's "MENstruation" and "The Epidemic"—the latest installment of an anti-bullying drive in which Bianca has
worked hand-in-hand with Monica Lewinsky.

Bianca created those during her time at BBDO. However, not too long ago, she left that job to do something incredibly bold: help launch a new creative agency in the middle of a pandemic. 

She joined Mischief @ No Fixed Address in July of 2020 as a founding partner and—in the space of just a few months—made global noise with prominent campaigns.

Some of Bianca’s accomplishments include being named as one of Business Insider’s ‘30 Most Creative People in Advertising Under 30’ in 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Shots magazine selected her for their inaugural list of “Rising Stars;” Adweek included her among its “Creative 100;” The Drum named her to their “50 Under 30” list; She Says and The Voice of a Woman awarded her as The VOWWS Best Creative Director; The One Show and the 3% Conference named her as one of their Next Creative Leaders; AdAge featured her on their 40 Under 40 list; and most recently she was named one of AdAge’s 2021 Leading Women in the US, and one of Campaign US "Female Frontier honorees."

Her work has been nominated for an Emmy three times, and has won more than 100 international awards.

As Chief Creative Officer of BBH USA, Erica Roberts leads all creative strategy and execution for the agency’s clients including Samsung, Google, Mattel’s Barbie, Netflix, Martell U.S. and Brighthouse Financial; and is additionally on the BBH Global Board. A 15-year Publicis Groupe veteran, she has helped strengthen the Power of One model by bringing media, experience design, strategy, data and PR together with creative to deliver some of the most talked about and recognized work in the industry. Most recently, Erica was CCO, Publicis New York; and prior to that, she was Executive Creative Director for PSOne, the bespoke Publicis Groupe solution for The J.M. Smucker Company, where she created game changing work including “Jif vs. Gif,” which was cited as the “best peanut butter campaign of all time” by Campaign US, and the Lil Jif Project’s #JifRapChallenge, which was recognized by Adweek as one of the five “Best Ads of 2021.”

Roberts is a renowned creative leader within the industry, having been named to Adweek’s Creative 100 list as an Agency Leader to Watch, in addition to Campaign US’s 40 Over 40. She has led award-winning, business-transforming work across nearly every category, from CPG to QSR, financial services and retail. Erica lives in New York City with her husband and son. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, second only to Scrabble and Scrabble-related trash talk.