Jason Kreher

Jason Kreher has spent his career creating impactful, award-winning work for some of the greatest brands in the world.

After 15 years at Portland’s Wieden + Kennedy, and a handful more at Accenture Song and Maximum Effort, Kreher recently joined experiential darling DE-YAN as their Chief Creative Officer. Under his creative leadership the office has doubled headcount, grown revenue more than 85% and was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies.

Kreher and his work have been covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vice, The Onion’s AV Club, Time, The Paris Review, Buzzfeed, Creativity Magazine and Ad Age, among countless others.

His list of industry awards includes an Emmy, multiple Grands Prix at CICLOPE and Cannes, the Super Clio, the One Show Penta Pencil and the AICP’s Campaign of the Year, a distinction that puts Kreher in the Museum of Modern Art‘s permanent archive.

He has appeared on Adweek’s Creative 100 list, Creativity Magazine’s 50 Most Influential Creative People, and Campaign’s 40 Over 40. In 2018, Ad Age named him Creative Director of the Year.

In addition to his work in advertising, Kreher debuted his short film (with director Todd Selby) at the independent Slamdance Film Festival in Utah. In 2015 he published his first book with Simon & Schuster, a collection of cruel Popsicle stick jokes named SchadenFreezers, and created an online comedy series with standup Maria Bamford. Kreher’s long-running creative collaboration with indie rock band Portugal. The Man boasts more than 350M YouTube views and has earned him literally dozens of dollars in songwriting residuals.

Jason lives in Portland, OR with his handsome husband and two strapping sons.

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