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Jorg Riommi
Founder CEO and Chief Creative Officer, AIN'T

Thanks to german and italian personal background Jörg naturally blends opposites, bringing to the table organized passion, structured disruption, creative synthesis and somehow theatrical but methodical follow ups.
He manages to keep this all together thanks to quite few years spent in Eastern Europe.

Starting january 2024, he is self standing and open to consulting, creative projects and collaborations, offering a variety of creative services.

Before this, as Chief Creative Officer of Publicis Groupe Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), he oversaw the creative output of the Groupe’s creative brand agencies across 14 markets, also being a member of Publicis, Saatchi&Saatchi and Leo Burnett’s Global Product Committees (GPC).
 
Earlier, he has been part of Saatchi & Saatchi in Rome, S. Juan Puerto Rico, Bucharest, Frankfurt and Berlin, and a join creative for several network projects in Madrid, Amsterdam, Paris, Copenhagen, Geneve, Brussels, Milan, New York amongst others.
He was the CCO of Publicis Bucharest from 2014 to 2018, leading the agency to be Golden Drum Agency of The Year in 2016.
 
He worked for clients from various industries ranging from automotive to FMCG, health&pharma through telco and many more, across all categories - keeping a strong pitch winning record.
 
Jorg's work gained more than 300 awards including multiple Grand Prixs and Golds at all the major advertising festivals such as D&AD, Cannes Lions, One Show, Clio, LIA, Eurobest, Golden Drum, ADC. He’s particularly proud of his D&AD Black Pencil.
 
He has been part of all major international juries including Cannes Lions, Dubai Lynx, London International Awards, One Show, D&AD, regional Chair for Europe at the Andy’s 2022 and juror for The One Show in 2023.
 
In recent years, he was part of the team behind Burger King’s iconic Moldy Whopper global campaign that has been ranked #1 most awarded advertising campaign in the world by the WARC ranking 2021.

Under his leadership, Central & Eastern Europe’s creativity was widely recognized at leading global, regional, and local creative and effectiveness competitions including Cannes Lions, The Drum Ranking, Golden Drum Festival (Network of the Year 2021 and 2022), and Euro Effie.
 
He was ranked #7 most awarded Chief Creative Officer in the world by The Drum ranking in both 2021 and 2022.
He was Creative Director of the Year at Golden Drum Festival 2021, and was inducted in the Golden Drum Hall of Fame in 2022.

He still always believes in the world's changing power of ideas, and that nothing is impossible.