Chief Creative Officer for McCann Los Angeles/Detroit, Stephen has spent the last 20 years working in advertising. While much of his career has been spent in the automotive realm, being a creative director on GM, Toyota, Hyundai, Lexus and Buick, his advertising career extends far beyond that to now include Northrop Grumman, Aldi, Travel Michigan and packaged goods brands for Nestlé and Bumble Bee Foods. He has run his own ad agency, Lunch, launching one of the most successful global beverages in the United States, Red Bull. At previous agencies, Stephen handled a myriad of accounts from Eveready to Air New Zealand.  From Mitsubishi to Unocal Agricultural products.  From Foster Farms to Castlemaine Beer to Perkins Restaurants. 

For ten years, Stephen has been a professor at the Art Center College of Design.  He also renovates houses, loves travel and photography, and relishes in the joy of fatherhood to his two young girls, Joby and Mila.  Stephen was introduced to Rett Syndrome in the fall of 2008 when the daughter of close family friends was diagnosed.