STEVE (BUTTER) MCELLIGOTT
Steve is from Minnesota, which means he’s pale and unusually nice to strangers. After college in Colorado, he moved to Roswell, New Mexico and became the producer of the local TV news station’s 10 pm and morning news. After two years, he’d tired of writing stories about aliens, and decided to join the family trade of advertising.
He enrolled at the VCU Adcenter, and spent two years dorking out about ads. After graduating, he was hired by Ground Zero in LA, where he proceeded to do work for ESPN, California Anti-smoking, Lucy, and others. After Ground Zero, he moved on to BBDO NY, where he helped create award-winning work for BBC, FedEx, DirectTV, Monster.com, and Guinness, and was bequeathed with the impressive sounding titles of Senior Creative Director and Executive Vice President.
JEROME MARUCCI
Jerome grew up in the heart of Appalachia. After college he turned his back on the family trade of coal mining to seek his place in the world. He managed to land a job in the production department of a design studio in Chicago. One day at work, by accident, Jerome discovered a dusty, unused One Show annual on bookshelf. His fascination with advertising had begun.
After many self-taught, trial and error attempts to improve his book, Jerome’s big break came when he got hired by Butler, Shine and Stern as an art director. There he worked on Comedy Central, Sony PlayStation and a slew of dot com clients. He then went to work at Hal Riney to work on Saturn and Hewlett Packard. That was followed by a stint at Fallon New York where he primarily worked on Virgin Mobile. Jerome then went on to be a Creative Director at BBDO New York. At BBDO he has done highly recognized work for BBC, Monster, FedEx, Guinness and G4.
Jerome has been lucky enough to win just about every major award advertising has to offer. He also attributes his success to the irrational fear, if he fails, he’ll have to go work in the coal mines to provide for his family. This is irrational simply because all of the mines closed down long ago.
YOU CAN EMAIL US at stevemcelligott@me.com
and jeromemarucci@me.com.
OR CALL US
347.423.0859 for Steve.
718.744.5166 for Jerome.
Just note, Jerome tends to mumble.