The best work happens when the team gives a damn.

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I've spent 15+ years pushing teams to do just that, translating what a product is into what an audience needs to feel to say yes. The work has resulted in IPOs, funding rounds, and breakthrough brands.

It always starts with a simple human truth — about the company, the audience, the moment they're in. Creative anchored in that truth holds up long after the campaign.

Whether I'm in-house or agency-side, my approach is the same: be intense about the work, easy to be with. Kindness and craft are not opposites.

That’s how good work gets made and how good teams stay good.

Most recently: Creative Director at Beautiful.ai.
dannychung1@gmail.com · 510 759 1222


$71M+

Total venture capital raised across clients.

1 IPO

Led brand work that took Udemy public at $420M.

Global

Brand work across NA, APAC, EU, LATAM, and Africa


In-house Experience

Beautiful.ai
Creative Director

Candid Wholesale
Head of Creative

LinkedIn
Associate Creative Director, Contract

Udemy
Associate Creative Director

WIkia
Art Director

Early Experience

CBS Interactive (2012) · Energy BBDO · Publicis Modem · Publicis & Hal Riney · Euro RSCG · Made Studios · Asian Art Museum of SF

Agency Experience

State Farm

Cisco Meraki

Intel

Palo Alto Networks

PayPal

Education

IDEO U
Leading for Creativity

Miami Ad School
Art Direction Program

UC Irvine
BA in Theater
Minor in Digital Design