As CEO, Chris leads our global operations. For more than 25 year, he has been providing integrated strategies and leading the development of world-class solutions for over 50 Fortune 100 companies in the U.S, Europe and Latin America.
In 2011 he founded Tessell Marketing, a full-service Marketing agency with headquarters in Boulder, CO and offices in Miami, Mexico City and Buenos Aires. The agency specializes in strategic consulting and high-volume, high-quality near-shore content production for a variety of global and up and coming brands.
Before founding Tessell, as CEO / Managing Director, Chris led OgilvyOne, Ogilvy Interactive and Neo@Ogilvy Mexico where he obtained a level of local and international awards never before seen in Ogilvy Mexico. In 2010 they won 20 awards, including:
- Cyber Lions at Cannes - The First Ever
- Yahoo! Big Idea Chair – The First Ever
- Googly Award – The First Ever
- DMA Echos (4) - Best Year Ever
- Painanis (4) - Best Year Ever
- IAB Connect – The First Ever
- San Sebastian – The First Ever
- FIAP - The First Ever
While at Ogilvy he served over 20 international and local clients, including: American Express, Nestle, Nubrenza (UCB), Metlife, Axtel, Motorola, Gandhi, IBM, Lenovo, UPS, among others.
Before joining Ogilvy, as President, he led the turnaround of one of the largest independent interactive agencies in Latin America: Latin 3. He dramatically improved the quality of deliverables and customer satisfaction by implementing new disciplines and skills that had not existed in the agency previously, including: quality assurance (QA), resource planning, strategic planning, information architecture and post-mortem project analysis. While there he served many clients in the Latin American and the U.S. Hispanic markets, including; Google, DELL, Pepsi, Reebok, Lexicon Marketing, Visa, Nextel, Terra, Cisco, Disney, Sony, Discovery, Taca Airlines, SAP and General Mills.
Previously, Chris was Vice President of Marketing Strategy & Services at Publicis-Modem in San Francisco, where he led client relationships and developed the strategic direction of several brands, including Hewlett-Packard, General Motors, Intel, Schwab, Michelin, BFGoodrich and Uniroyal.
Chris has an MBA from Northeastern University and a BBA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
