Creating Great Work in Colorado and the People Behind It

Mike Sukle | Owner, Sukle Advertising & Design

Pedro Saldarriaga | Creative Director, Madwell

Quinn Katherman  | Creative Director, CPB

Terry Pierce | Owner, Bianca e Nero

Shea Tullos | Creative Director, Cactus

Colin Pearse | Creative, Danone North America

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BIOS

Originally from Medellin, Colombia, Pedro Saldarriaga, started his career as a semi-professional bike racer in Spain, and eventually found himself making ads in Colorado. He’s been doing this ad thing for a very long time at places like Crispin, BBDO, Anomaly, Barkley, Sukle, and many others. At his current post in the Madwell Colorado office, he's part of the Visible team. If you don't know about Visible, you should. It's a $40/mo all-in phone service with no hidden fees on Verizon's 4G LTE network. Yup, that was an ad in a bio. You saw it here first. He’s worked on brands like Audi, The North Face, Oakley, Kraft, Fruit of the Loom, and of course the requisite ski resort or two. When he’s not working, you can find him searching for trout on mountain streams and trying to keep up with his 9-year-old daughter mountain biking.

Since joining CPB in 2015, Quinn Katherman has introduced a majestic unicorn for Ice Breakers to celebrate millennials' confident and driven attitude and launched the 'Beyond I Do' campaign for the Ad Council and Gill Foundation to raise awareness of legal discrimination occurring against LGBT Americans. And as the lead creative for Hotels.com, she has launched multiple campaigns featuring the brand's biggest fan, Captain Obvious, which has led Business Insider to name her one of 2018’s 'Rising Stars of Madison Avenue' and for Adweek to name her to the 2019 ‘Creative 100.’ Quinn began her career as a humor writer for Recycled Paper Greetings, where she posted her rejected jokes and concepts on Twitter. She acquired a large following, was named one of '18 Funny Women to Follow' by The Huffington Post and was hired to write for the Sonic Drive-Thru account at Barkley. She then went to Arnold Worldwide where she gave a new voice to Progressive's long-standing Flo campaign. Throughout her career, Quinn has also helped craft brands like PUR, Jack Daniel's, Carnival, Yoplait, Lee Jeans, Vanity Fair and Ball Jars.

Terry serves as the creative director, strategist and primary client contact at Bianca e Nero in Denver, Colorado, that focuses on reinventing each clients brand we with work with in a wide range of industries. Starting out as a graphic designer and working his way up to art director and eventually creative director, he has been an instrumental visionary for advertising agencies in Denver as well as San Francisco. He’s had the pleasure of speaking and sharing his thoughts on the elements of advertising and marketing has judged industry award shows throughout the country. In 1999 he started his own unique strategic and creative agency with the mantra he still holds to today—make it smart, make it relevant and make it unexpected. Since its inception 21 years ago, the client roster has grown and diversified with clients of all sizes who seek out the agency for its unique way of finding the truth and telling a great story for each client we collaborate with.

Shea has spent the past thirteen years helping agencies impress clients with work that’s better than it has to be. As a Creative Director at Cactus, he leads creative efforts for the Colorado Lottery. Prior to joining Cactus, Shea worked as a copywriter at agencies such as Peter Mayer, Trumpet, The Integer Group and GSD&M. A graduate of the Texas Creative portfolio program, his work has been recognized by The One Club, Communication Arts, Lürzer’s Archive, Modern Copywriter, AdAge, Adweek and more.

Colin Pearse is an award-winning art director and creative currently leading Design for Corporate Communications at Danone North America. An industry veteran, Colin has worked at agencies big and small in Denver, Phoenix and San Francisco. His varied work has supported clientele including Arizona State University Athletics, the Colorado Department of Human Services, Habitat for Humanity, J&J, McDonald's, P&G, and the Phoenix Suns. Colin even spent over a year working on the Pampers account — without ever knowing how to change a diaper.