R/GA Chicago Adds Team Members and Specialized Roles to Growing Office

All will contribute to the office’s focus on innovative transformation to help clients solve for complex business challenges

CHICAGO – May 23, 2018 – R/GA, the company connected by design, today announced that its Chicago office recently brought on six people with experience in visual design, finance, technology, campaigns, media, and production. These team members help make up the now 75-person office and will support R/GA Chicago’s growing product and services, and campaign production needs to help client partners like PepsiCo, Constellation Brands, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and Chicago Beyond, among others focus on innovative transformation to solve for complex business challenges.

The list of new talent includes:

As Senior Financial Analyst, Hannah Gargulak will support the R/GA Chicago leadership team to analyze and forecast the business success of the office. In addition to this, Gargulak will play an integral part in monitoring and reporting the financial health of all client projects. Previously, Gargulak held a financial analyst position at The Chicago Tribune and accountant role at Schwarz Supply Source.

Bryan Haupt joins as a senior art director from DigitasLBi/Chicago. In this role, Haupt will use his passion of visual identity and art direction to create purposeful campaign work for R/GA Chicago’s portfolio of clients. His other agency experience consisted of time at Digitas Chicago.

As Senior Bid Manager, Josephine Holmes will support R/GA Chicago’s media team to manage paid social strategy for Corona and Pepsi Water+ clients specifically. Prior to R/GA, Holmes was an account supervisor at Resolution Media. Her other experience has included digital, programmatic and social strategy at companies TubeMogul in Chicago, as well as Beamly, Bright Fox Media and Unruly Media in New York.

Justin Lake returns to R/GA Chicago as an associate creative director, copy. In this role, Lake will focus on crafting creative ideas that combine design with the latest in technology to drive business results for the office’s growing portfolio of clients. Lake has also held creative roles at VML in Kansas City and Cramer-Krasselt in Chicago, and was a 2015 U.S. Young Lions winner in the Cyber category.

As Media Producer, Aurora O’Bryan will work with R/GA Chicago’s media team to determine the best mix of digital channels to creatively foster brand loyalty. To do this, O’Bryan and her team will use data as a driver to build strategies, systems and manage media programs tailored to key audiences. Prior to R/GA Chicago, O’Bryan spent time at Kelly Scott Madison and SpaceTime Media in Chicago.

Nathan Pulcher joined R/GA Chicago as a recent graduate from the University of Texas at Austin. As an Assistant Media Planner, Pulcher will support the broader media team to develop digital media campaigns across Google and social platforms, as well as use data to track the success of each client campaign and marketplace trends. While in school, Pulcher held a media intern role at Y&R Austin.

“R/GA Chicago’s multi-disciplinary and integrated creative, product and services and media offerings enable us to create data-rich and game-changing work for our clients,” said Jeff Brecker, SVP, Managing Director of R/GA Chicago. “Our success stems from constant transformation of services, expansion of disciplines, and our smart talent. I’m proud of the team we’ve built and what’s to come for R/GA Chicago.”

On top of these ten new team members, the R/GA Chicago office is looking to fill up to 20 open positions as a result of recent new business activity. To learn more about these roles, please visit the R/GA Careers page.

About R/GA
R/GA is connected by design. An innovation leader for more than 40 years, R/GA has expanded to offer consulting, ventures, technology, marketing communications, architecture, and IP development services in addition to its award-winning design practice. Its work spans web, mobile, and social communications, retail and e-commerce, product innovation, brand development, and business transformation. The company has more than 2,000 employees globally with 19 offices across the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia-Pacific. R/GA is part of The Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE:IPG), one of the world’s largest advertising and marketing services organizations. For more information about R/GA, please visit www.rga.com and on Facebook and Twitter.