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Eric Ashworth

EVP / President

Eric is executive vice president of product and market strategy at Quad and leads Quad’s agency solutions offering. He has been overseeing the integration and business of Periscope since January 2019, and as Periscope’s interim president, he currently works closely with Periscope’s executive leadership team to manage the operations and integration of the agency to better solve the complex business problems of today’s marketers.

Eric joined Quad in 2015 to help accelerate the company’s transformation as a marketing solutions partner. Among his many previous marketing leadership positions, he has served as president of SGK, Inc., building and managing a global network of agencies, and held brand management and marketing roles at Colgate-Palmolive, The Clorox Company and Levi Strauss & Co.

Peter Nicholson

CCO

Peter is Periscope’s first-ever chief creative officer and a well-known industry leader who has collaborated with some of the greatest creative teams in advertising. With a career spanning both coasts, Peter built his portfolio at shops like Goodby Silverstein & Partners and Leagas Delaney before moving into leadership roles at Publicis, J. Walter Thompson, Deutsch NY and other top creative agencies. Peter’s impressive client roster includes Macy’s, Cadbury, Johnson & Johnson, Diageo and JetBlue.

No stranger to industry accolades, Peter has received an array of major creative awards. Among the many notable campaigns he’s worked on are the award-winning IKEA campaign around the election of President Obama, the infamous “What the hell is ANSKY?” campaign for the Adidas sponsorship of the Yankees, and Samsung’s brand initiative with Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard.

Chris Hiland

EVP / Agency Operations

Chris is an innovator with the marketing vision and planning prowess to help clients navigate today’s rapidly changing landscape. At Periscope, he is charged with driving the accelerated evolution of our client leadership team to create deeper integration with creative, media, analytics and technology. As a member of Periscope’s executive committee, he also helps shape the agency’s offerings and growth strategies.

Chris joined Periscope from BPN, where he served in strategic and growth-oriented roles. He has worked with leading CPG, food, retail, education and industrial brands — including Tyson and Procter & Gamble — and has helped execute breakthrough marketing and media programs for a long list of clients. Chris also held a range of roles at Jack Morton, Ipsos and Mediabrands, which gives him a broad view of business that contributes to his unique perspective on marketing’s constantly shifting ecosystem.

Victor Kimble

EVP / Strategy

Victor leads Periscope’s strategy practice area as a curious, compassionate steward of global brands and business. His experience spans more than 15 years at some of the world’s most respected agencies, including Fallon, Deutsch and Ogilvy, where his efforts led to brave work for names like Tylenol, Motrin, Imodium, Huggies, Brawny, Timberland and Depend.

Victor believes people are searching for more personalized brand experiences and he loves helping his team connect the strategic dots to tell stories in thoughtful new ways. The communications he’s helped create have been awarded several Cannes Silver Lions, One Show Pencils, Effies and David Ogilvy Research Awards. Victor was born in Brazil, has roots in Minnesota and spent over a decade on the East Coast before trading in the NYC subways for skyways and returning home.

Mike DePauw

SVP / Account Leadership

Mike joined Periscope in 2018 from Leo Burnett Switzerland, where he was most recently the director of client service — leading the development of international marketing and advertising strategies while guiding account teams with a focus on delivering growth for his clients. With experience working with iconic brands such as Coca-Cola, American Express, Kellogg’s, Philip Morris International and Kraft, Mike offers a combination of integrated brand thinking and performance marketing that spans advertising, retail, packaging, digital, B2B, promotion and CRM.

Outside of the office, Mike enjoys skiing and baseball, and was declared Best Dad Ever for 2009–2015 and 2017–2018.

Katie Kelly-Landberg

SVP / Account Leadership

Katie is our retail guru. With 25 years of expertise up her sleeve, she has played a vital role in Periscope’s retail success. Katie manages an amazingly talented team that strives to deliver world-class creative and execution to a broad range of clients encompassing categories from consumer packaged goods to owned-brand grocery — a list that includes JCPenney, Petco, Publix, General Mills and more. She has a passion for people and believes building strong relationships is key for clients’ success.

Katie’s planning and strategic direction have won major industry kudos. In fact, in her tenure with Target, her team helped Periscope win the “Best of the Bullseye” Vendor of the Year Award on seven separate occasions from 2002 to 2012. And if that weren’t enough, she was in on the ground floor of our international packaging management program and the creation of our global photo studio in Hong Kong. In her spare time, Katie serves on the leadership team for the Minnesota Network of Executive Women and tries to catch up on sleep. Obviously.

Heath Pochucha

VP / Executive Creative Director

In Heath’s 18 years of building iconic brands, he has held leadership positions at some of the world’s most creative and innovative agencies, including Fallon, Carmichael Lynch, BSSP and, most recently, serving as group creative director at Deutsch LA.

As a passionate believer in building brands people love through every tool in the toolbox, Heath has created and shaped award-winning and industry-lauded work that has catapulted sales for such clients as Volkswagen, Harley-Davidson, Google, MINI, Jack Link’s, ESPN and Subaru, to name a few.

Heath holds a double major in English and communication from St. John’s University.

P.S. Heath has been hit by a car, kicked by a horse and stabbed with a knife. He has surfed in a tropical storm, biked in -30ºF, scaled the Great Wall of China and circumnavigated the globe.

Jason Bottenus

VP / Executive Creative Director

Jason started his career in digital back when it was still called “interactive.” He has held positions at BBH New York, Mother London and most recently served as creative director at both Fallon Minneapolis and Fallon NY. Jason has led or created campaigns for brands like Cheerios, Lärabar, PG Tips, Woodford Reserve, Lime-A-Rita, Axe, Beck’s, Loctite and Johnnie Walker. His work has been recognized by numerous award shows, including the ANDYs, British Arrows, Campaign Big, Cannes, Clios, D&AD, Effies, One Show and Webbys.

Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from University of Maryland, College Park, and a master’s degree in art direction from the VCU Brandcenter. He spends his free time traveling with his wife and daughters. Jason is also a lifelong supporter of the Liverpool Football Club and can often be found yelling at the TV.

Aaron Martin

Controller Manager

­­With more than 20 years of experience at Periscope, Aaron is an expert at financial management for a service-based industry and works with every Periscope client to ensure all financial needs are being met. Aaron started as an intern, learning the ropes while working in finance as well as account leadership and media. Today, you’ll find him integrated into all facets of Periscope in order to improve financial efficiencies throughout the company. Aaron has been the go-to person for everything from analyzing client financial activity, to managing the financials of Periscope overseas offices, to working with the broader Quad finance team on agency services.­­

Aaron graduated from Metropolitan State University with a bachelor’s in accounting. When he’s not crunching numbers, you can find him spending time with his wife and children. He loves traveling with his wife to new locations outside the United States, and especially loves combining that travel with music festivals and concerts.

Jenifer Anhorn

VP / Business Development­

Jenifer’s no stranger to being at the helm of pretty terrific brands. In more than 20 years on both the client and agency sides of the business, she’s racked up successes on a mouthwatering list of restaurant and retail brands.

After 16 years in agency account management working on brands like Buffalo Wild Wings, Red Robin, Caribou Coffee and Papa Murphy’s, Jenifer made the switch to client-side and spent several years as Papa Murphy’s chief marketing officer. Her role incorporated everything from branding and product development to advertising and communications — and a whole lot in between. She rejoined Periscope in 2013 to head up business development, bringing a unique perspective to navigating the agency’s visibility and new business strategy. Since the acquisition of Periscope by Quad in 2019, Jenifer’s role has expanded to driving integration and business growth by leveraging our broad and diverse spectrum of creative and strategic services.

As the mother of two teenagers, Jenifer spends most of her free time with her kids and family, logging countless weekends over the past few years in gyms and baseball fields.

Jayson Truttmann

EVP / Growth

As Periscope’s first EVP of Growth, Jayson brings more than 20 years of agency experience across digital, traditional, experiential and strategy to the role. Most recently, he led technology, creative, user and emerging experience, and client engagement teams across a global portfolio at Frog Design in Austin, Texas.

Prior to Frog, Jayson’s leadership of marketing and new business for SapientRazorfish helped build the strongest-performing region in the network by driving teams to align with client needs and focus on relationship value over time. Jayson has a penchant for bringing elite teams to transformational challenges, and his history of driving award-winning programs includes work for brands like Apple, Audi, Bosch, Cisco, Citigroup, Dell, Fender, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Marriott, Microsoft, Nike, Patrón and Trek Bicycles, among many others. He has also been involved in the creation, expansion or turn-around of pioneering digital agencies like Level Studios, BLITZ and Full Moon Interactive — recognized by Forrester as “the original internet architect.” Jayson’s love for pushing boundaries extends outside the office, where he spends his free time enjoying all things high octane, from dune buggies to race cars to a project restoring his grandfather’s 1974 Jeep CJ5.­­