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Greg Veerman, CEO and Executive Creative Director at Astronaut Studio.
Greg Veerman's Bio:
Greg Veerman's Experience:
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Principal/Executive Creative Director at Astronaut Studio
June 2007 - PresentAstronaut is a brand studio that specializes in strategy and communications for companies in clean tech, renewable energy, sustainable goods and services. Our crew members have earned stripes with Fortune 500 consumer, tech and financial brands at large agencies across the country. Our mission is simple: make sustainability mainstream through the power of world-class brands.
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Vice President/Executive Creative Director at VVI
October 2015 - April 2017 | South DakotaResponsible for all creative and strategic work product. Improved creative development and production processes, grew creative team, led campaigns that won first-time industry accolades for this 25-year-old production house.
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Creative Director at BKG
January 2004 - June 2007Led a scrappy team of creative and production talent. Elevated overall creative product, helped win business, recruited talent and turbo-charged billings at this upstart Midwest agency. Developed and launched brand strategies and integrated campaigns that grew sales, awareness and market dominance for clients in diverse consumer and industrial categories. Led development of agency expertise in brand strategy, design, social media and more.
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Creative Director/Writer at Freelance
2003 - 2007Shaves and haircuts. http://bit.ly/9MzPPp
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Copywriter at Euro RSCG, Portland
June 2000 - April 2003Writer/creative lead on projects for technology and consumer brands (AOL, MSNTV, Phillips, Bissell, Callaway, Char-Broil). Helped spearhead the company's foray into interactive television.
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Copywriter at CMD
September 1995 - May 2000Led creative/production posses developing work for HP, Intel, Gap, Ford, Cargill, Cisco, others. Helped earn new business and grow agency from 30+ to 120+ staff.
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Reporter at Willamette Week
September 1991 - June 1994Reporter/contributor at Portland's premiere investigative news weekly. Covered politics, crime, pop culture. Wrote column on language, grilled senators and street punks for the down-low.
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Managing Editor at Paperback Jukebox
October 1993 - April 1994Built editorial team, led copy strategy, elevated overall quality at upstart arts and culture paper. Transitioned paper from monthly to bi-weekly format, helped increase circulation and define the cultural landscape of a city.
Greg Veerman's Education:
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Lewis and Clark College
1987 – 1991BAConcentration: English/Creative WritingActivities: Editor, Literary Review; Jazz Band, Symphonic Band -
Insitut Supérieur Interégional des Etudes Permenantes
1989 – 1989Concentration: French, Culture, History, Art
Greg Veerman's Interests & Activities:
Alaska (where I grew up and where you will find most of the Veerman clan), South Dakota, writing, design, brand strategy, renewable energy, clean tech, biotechnology, brand development, creative direction, sustainability, film/video, digital media, cocktails, power chords, jazz chords, Portland, fly fishing, the mixolydian mode, baseball, being a father to Gus, Jude, Oliver and Phoebe and being a husband to the incomparable Jane Veerman.