Bob Greenberg

Bob Greenberg—Founder & Executive Chairman of R/GA—has been a pioneer in the advertising and communications industry for nearly four decades. He leads the vision for R/GA, one of the world’s most influential companies, emphasizing the importance of business transformation, product/service innovation, and breakthrough communications. The company serves as the digital partner for Fortune 500 companies and world-renowned brands, including Nike, Beats by Dre, Unilever, Samsung, Google, and Johnson & Johnson.

Bob, along with his brother Richard, founded R/Greenberg Associates (R/GA) in 1977 with the idea of creating a company that valued design but also focused on developing leading-edge motion graphics and live-action film and video production. The company created groundbreaking visual effects for movies such as Alien, Predator, Se7en, and Zelig. To date, R/GA’s body of work spans 400 feature films and 4,000 television commercials.

Bob has evolved the company several times since its founding, transforming it from a world-class movie title shop, to a digital studio, to a major digital advertising agency, and today, to an all-in-one full-service agency, product and service innovator, and consultancy. Now in its fifth business model, R/GA has become one of the most successful integrated marketing services companies, creating everything from new products and digital services, to social and mobile campaigns, to broadcast commercials.

Bob has won almost every industry award for creativity, including the Academy Award, D&AD Pencils, and Cannes Lions. Among his most notable accolades are the Cannes Lions lifetime achievement Lion of St. Mark, the honorary title Royal Designer for Industry (Hon RDI) from the Royal Society for Arts, the ANDY Bravery Award, the 2007 BDA Lifetime Achievement Award, the CLIO Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Communications in 2003, and the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. Bob was also inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame, Marketing Hall of Fame, and the Creative Hall of Fame, and recently curated Bob Greenberg Selects at the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. For the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, he served as Cyber Jury President in 2004 and 2013, as a member of the 2005 Titanium Jury, and as President of the Titanium and Integrated Jury in 2010.

Bob also serves on the boards of numerous organizations, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Ad Council.