Ziad Ezzat: Creative Director in Oakland, CA

Chief cook and bottle-washer, buck stopper, HMFIC.

* Led in-house creative team responsible for all aspects of the Salient visual brand: websites, marketing and sales collateral, online and print advertising, conference booths, office wayfinding and signage, internal forms, and promotional giveaways * Evaluated, selected, and directed external agency partners through a comprehensive post-merger rebranding process * Designed the logo and brand system for Salient’s Epsilon Theory thought leadership platform * Designed websites for multiple business units under the firm umbrella, including: salientpartners.com, salientmidstream.com, salientprivateclient.com, salientindices.com, and epsilontheory.com. * Produced the Epsilon Theory Podcast (http://ziad.af/et-podcast)

* Built an in-house creative team from the ground up, hiring and leading permanent, contract, and temporary talent as needed * Established agency-style creative processes and workflows to vastly improve efficiency and communication between teams * Worked directly with marketing and sales leadership, portfolio managers, and senior management to build a library of clean, consistent marketing collateral * Managed video and photo shoots and directed editing and mastering process

* Ran an end-to-end creative agency, offering web/graphic design, branding, offset printing, direct mail, and fulfillment services * Planned and managed cross-platform marketing campaigns * Determined time and resources allocation, balanced budgets and revenue targets * Established excellent rapports and developed trusting, long-term relationships with clients * Led design team and acted as operations manager agency wide, supervising print production, sales, estimating, accounting, HR, facilities, and shipping/receiving