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Danny Robinson’s career is a testament to outside-the-box thinking. After all, it’s not common to find a chief executive officer, who was previously a chief creative officer, who was previously a chief client officer who never saw himself in any of these roles. Throughout his career, Danny has been both the tone setter for and champion of creativity, As CEO of Martin, he is responsible for the overall health, vision and growth of the agency. Danny’s blend of creative and business acumen leads to a big-picture perspective that results in breakthrough ideas. He brought this approach with him in 2004 and has since helped lead the agency to back-to-back Adweek Agency of Year wins in 2020 and 2021, Ad Age’s 2023 Agency of the Year, and a spot on Fast Company’s Most Innovative List for 2023.
Prior to becoming CEO in 2024, Danny was both the first Black chief creative officer in Martin’s history and one of the few leading a non-Black-owned agency. Over the course of his three-year tenure, he oversaw work from some of the world’s most beloved brands including UPS, GEICO, Walmart, TIAA, DoorDash and OREO.
Remember when Oprah gave away 276 Pontiac G6s? So does Danny. He was a big part of that history-making brand integration as the chief creative officer at Vigilante, an ad agency he co-founded. While at Vigilante, Danny was the creative leader and writer behind award-winning campaigns for national brands including Sprint, Major League Baseball, Heineken and Johnnie Walker Black Label.Danny is a Hampton University grad with an MBA from Atlanta University, an accomplished artist, a pop culture aficionado, a former DJ and standup comic, and was even once voted by the Stand Up NY Comedy Club as “one of the funniest men in advertising.”

Recognized as a leader in the field of diversity, Tiffany is a talent strategist with 22+ years of championing diverse professionals in the advertising industry. In 2005, she founded ADCOLOR, which has launched the ADCOLOR Industry Conference, ADCOLOR Awards and ADCOLOR University. As President of ADCOLOR, she is deeply involved in the direction the industry is taking around diversity.

As Executive VP, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer for Sony Music Group, Tiffany R. Warren will expand equity and inclusion activities and policies across all Sony Music Group’s (SMG) global recorded music, publishing and corporate divisions, reporting directly to SMG Chairman Rob Stringer.

Previously, as the Senior VP, Chief Diversity Officer for Omnicom Group, Warren oversaw a team of 25+ Chief Diversity Officers and Directors focused on Omnicom-wide change efforts through the award-winning Omnicom People Engagement Network (OPEN) for the support, advancement and retention of top performing talent inclusive of women, people of color and LGBT professionals.

Recognized as a leader in the field of diversity, Warren is a talent strategist with 24+ years of championing diverse professionals in the creative industries. In 2005, she founded ADCOLOR, which has launched the ADCOLOR Conference, Awards, FUTURES program and ADCOLOR in Music. As President of ADCOLOR, she has been widely recognized for the progress and direction the creative industries have taken around diversity, equity & inclusion.

Warren also serves as the 2021-2022 Chair of the National Board of Directors for the American Advertising Federation (AAF) spearheading the expansion of the organization’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts while emphasizing the audio, music and entertainment aspects of AAF’s programing.

She was honored as an Advertising Age Woman to Watch, AAF District 2 “Role Model” Diversity Achievement Award, AAF Hall of Achievement Inductee and The Jack Avrett Volunteer Award Recipient, AAF Pioneer in Diversity Award (Omnicom Group), 4A’s MAIP Gladiator Award, the National Association Black Journalists’ Patricia L. Tobin Media Professional Award Recipient, The European Diversity Awards’ Global Diversity Champion Award, AOL MAKER, the New York Urban League’s Frederick Douglass Medallion and the AAF Barton G. Cummings Gold Medal for Distinguished Service, the 4A’s 100 People Who Make Advertising Great List, Ebony 100 and John A. Reisenbach Distinguished Citizenship Award, Black Enterprise Top Executive in Diversity 2019, DoSomething.org 2020 Empower Player, 2021 Henry Crown Fellow and 2021 Billboard Change Agent.

Jayanta Jenkins is a forward-thinking creative and marketing executive with 20+ years’ experience crafting culture-defining messaging for some of the world’s most esteemed brands. Jayanta prides himself in leading and inspiring multidisciplinary teams by fostering collaboration, fun and bringing out the best in each team member. His ability to blend strategic thinking with creative vision has resulted in timeless storytelling, pushing the boundaries of how brands engage with global audiences.

His dedication to delivering results has garnered industry recognition from every major marketing and advertising awards organization. Noteworthy is that his work has won multiple Cannes Lions, One Show, Clios, D&AD, and Promax awards. In 2017, Jayanta and his creative team at Twitter received a Cannes Lion Grand Prix, which is one of the most coveted and globally recognized awards in the marketing industry. In 2020, Jayanta was named one of Adweek’s Creative 100 top agency leaders. In 2022, Jayanta received further recognition from Cablefax as one of the top marketers of the year.

Presently, Jayanta serves as the Vice President of Creative at Starbucks, he oversees the global brand and creative strategy, ensuring that the company’s purpose and values are communicated effectively and authentically to millions of customers and partners.

In his prior duty, at The Walt Disney Company, Jenkins was Head of Content Marketing for Disney Branded Television and National Geographic. He led a centralized award-winning team responsible for all creative marketing, strategy, digital, publicity, media planning, events, talent relations and award strategies for all content created for promotion on Disney+ and the Disney and National Geographic linear networks.

Jenkins has held top global creative roles at Virgin Galactic, Samsung’s in-house agency, Cheil Worldwide in Seoul, Korea, Apple’s Beats by Dre and Twitter, where he was the social media company’s first global head of creative. Jenkins began his career in the agency world, working on Gatorade at TBWA\Chiat Day, Nike at Wieden+Kennedy and The Martin Agency.

In 2016, Jayanta co-founded SATURDAY MORNING, a non-profit organization that brings awareness and shifts perceptions on racial bias and injustice by partnering with Fortune 500 companies such as Proctor & Gamble, Spotify, and IBM to launch initiatives to create meaningful conversations for the collective benefit of all.

Outside of his profession life, Jayanta enjoys spending time with his son, visiting museums around the world, DJ’ing and listening to as much of Prince’s music as possible.