Creativity · Strategy · Tailored teams · Challenges

Every challenge deserves
a strategy,
needs ideas and
the right people.

I turn brand and culture challenges into clear strategy, relevant narratives and actions that help people and organizations evolve.

Before proposing an idea, you need to understand what is needed. And look at the problem differently.

At a time when everything seems to move faster, the answer is not always to accelerate. Sometimes we need to pause, change perspective and discover an opportunity no one else was seeing.

My work begins by understanding where you want to go, organizing complexity and finding a direction that can take the brand, team or organization further.

01Understand the challenge
02Change the point of view
03Find a direction
04Use AI across the process to make it better
AI applied to processes

More room for strategy.
Less time on bureaucracy.

I integrate artificial intelligence to enrich and systematize processes: organizing information, accelerating exploration, documenting learning and freeing teams to think, decide and create better. Technology amplifies judgement; it does not replace it.

I do not work so you can reach your goals.
I work so you can exceed them.

Sometimes a challenge needs an independent perspective. Other times it calls for a specific combination of strategy, creativity, design, content, technology and production.

I can work as a consultant or assemble the right team for the project: capabilities tailored to what you need to achieve—and exceed.

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Ideas recognized for their creativity, effectiveness and impact.

News That Arrives on Time campaign for Radio Carve.
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News That Arrives on Time

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Radio CarveExecutive creative direction

ChallengeNews stories that anticipated acts of gender-based violence, showing that recognizing the warning signs can change the outcome.

Impact3 Baleros at Desachate 36 · Three times the impact of comparable content

RompeCristales editorial project for El Observador.
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RompeCristales

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El ObservadorCreative direction · Content direction

ChallengeA journalistic podcast recognized locally and internationally among the best in the world, focused on the gender gap, leadership and negotiation.

ImpactEffie · INMA Awards · Campana de Oro · Became an exclusive news subscription plan for women

Stories of Peace, the Elsie Initiative by UN Women.
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Stories of Peace

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UN Women · Ministry of National Defence · Elsie InitiativeCreative direction · Editorial content

ChallengeTrue stories from peacekeeping personnel transformed into illustrated narratives and storybook heroes.

ImpactGrand Campana de Oro in Content · Doubled applications to Peacekeeping Missions

Missing Campaign for Amnesty International.
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Missing Campaign

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Amnesty International UruguayCreative direction and copywriting · Print campaign

ChallengeAn idea that brought the memory of missing people into the present.

Impact2 Gold Lions at Cannes · D&AD Wood Pencil · Grand Prix and Best Idea at Desachate · Helped secure additional funding for Amnesty Uruguay

Portraits Against Oblivion for Amnesty International.
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Portraits Against Oblivion

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Amnesty International UruguayExecutive creative direction · Advocacy campaign

ChallengeAnalogue photographs that faded away to make presidential candidates’ positions on missing people public.

ImpactGold Press Lion and Silver Design Lion at Cannes Lions · Shook up the presidential campaign

Oil Meter Cap device developed for Castrol.
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The Oil Meter Cap

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Castrol · JWT ShanghaiCreative and designer · Product innovation

ChallengeA solution conceived in Uruguay and executed in Asia to make motorcycle oil changes more accurate.

ImpactCannes Lions finalist 2021

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100+

More than 100 recognitions. Almost 20 years of experience. One way of working: with judgement.

National and international awards in creativity, innovation, communication and effectiveness.

Cannes LionsD&ADClioEl OjoEffie

Named Uruguay’s Best Creative Director twice

Experience to read the context.
Judgement to decide what comes next.

I have led local, regional and global projects for brands, institutions and organizations.

Current position

Strategic Consultant and Creative Director.

I work on focused campaigns and strategic projects where communication and creativity can transform a business, brand or organization. I can work independently or build the right team for each challenge.

2016—PRESENT

Executive Creative Director and Partner

Alva Creative House

Strategic and creative leadership across communication, brand, content, positioning and impact projects.

FIC · Udelar

Adjunct Professor

Creativity, advertising and critical thinking with new generations.

ReAcción Latam

Innovation Director

Technology, creativity, sustainability and environmental transformation.

Empathy

Consultant

Strategies and content focused on cultural transformation and triple impact.

Previous experience

2014—2016

Chief Creative Officer

Garabato MullenLowe · Paraguay

Creative leadership for regional and international brands.
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2012—2015

Associate Creative Director

MullenLowe Group · London / Global

Campaigns and special projects developed with multicultural teams.
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2009—2016

Executive Creative Director

Ginkgo MullenLowe

Leadership of integrated teams and campaigns recognized locally and internationally.
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Experience for

Antel · Renault · Unilever · Nestlé · Nespresso · Magnum · Rexona · Knorr · Uruguay XXI · Uruguay Innovation Hub · Amnesty International · ANII · IDB · UNICEF · Samsung · AXA · CCU · Megalabs · UN Women · Ministry of National Defence · Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining · Coca-Cola · World Bank · Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation · AB InBev · Roche · Sanofi · Heineken · Presidency of Uruguay · OPP
Universidad de la RepúblicaUniversitat de BarcelonaInteraction Design FoundationRare with GoogleDuke UniversityWharton