Ole Pedersen

Ole Pedersen has extensive experience in strategy and planning roles in various companies. Ole is currently the Director of Strategy at McKinney since March 2023. Prior to that, they worked as the Global Group Strategy Director at Droga5 from May 2022 to March 2023. From December 2020 to May 2022, they served as the International Lead - Insights and Analytics at Starz. Before that, they worked as a Principal/Freelance at KIND Creative Strategy from January 2019 to November 2020. Ole has also held positions such as Chief Strategy Officer and Partner at The North Alliance US, Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York, EVP - Global Group Planning Director at Deutsch, Chief Strategy Officer at StrawberryFrog, and SVP Group Planning Director and VP - Associate Behavioral Planning Director at BBDO.

Ole Pedersen has a Bachelor of Business Administration with Honours from BI Norwegian Business School. Ole also completed 1 year of military training and service with the Norwegian Armed Forces. Additionally, Ole Pedersen holds a Master of Science in Integrated Marketing Communications from Northwestern University's Medill School.