Josh Sklar

Josh is the founder and President of Heresy (heresy.co), having conceived the virtual agency after years of working for traditional ad agencies, digital shops, and nonprofits. Josh has been a global digital creative director three times, the most recently for WPP's Enfatico running the $4.5 billion Dell account. Prior to that, he was the Chief Creative Officer of WPP's lead digital agency, BLUE, and spent more than six years at XM, the e-services division of the Cordiant Communications Group and Bates Advertising, in various senior capacities including as its worldwide Chief Creative Officer. While in Asia, Josh and his team, including several Heretics he still works with, took XM to the top of the industry over a period of five years by winning regional Agency of Record status for clients such as: Nokia Mobile Phones, Compaq, Visa, Singapore Airlines, Cisco, Heineken, and ESPN. Other clients Josh worked on include: Coca-Cola, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Pfizer, Accenture, Hyundai, Benadryl, the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), Sauza Tequila, the United States Department of Defense, Polycom, P&G, Cisco, Starwood Hotels, J&J, HSBC, Singapore Telecommunications, CNBC, Discovery Channel, and many others. Through his direct work with these clients, Josh garnered more local and international industry and user awards than any other digital CD in the region.