Ross Phernetton Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Shinebox uses story and disruption to build brands.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Protagonist is a collaboration space for the purpose economy — a place where purpose-driven organizations and individuals can connect, learn, organize and act. We're an early-stage start-up with a fully remote and asynchronous team working for everyone who's working on our biggest challenges.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

New York

Staff™ a content-rich start-up backed by Samsung empowers average employees by giving them a collective voice, personal insights and knowledge of any company from the inside out.The app "Staff: Truth At Work" publishes the world's most interesting employee surveys a few times per week. Each question provides transparent, anonymous and correlated results in.

Minneapolis

Ross was the first employee in the US for Proximity, the world's most awarded digital and direct network. In this capacity he launched social media for the Minnesota Vikings; EV Solutions for Aerovironment and mobile e-commerce for Schwan's. He innovated distributed digital content for Warner Brothers, found more than a million Facebook likes for a meat.

Minneapolis

As a sister agency aligned with Proximity, BBDO is where Ross first joined the Omnicom network and simultaneously served as integrated Creative Director for new business and Aviva Life Insurance. He re-branded Fiserv, named and introduced new products for Allsteel and launched Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, the first consumer brand for the famous company.

Minneapolis

Ross took his fashion and retail experience to a boutique design and advertising agency. Clients included Larson Boats, Target and Grand Casino.

Minneapolis

Ross managed the broadcast budget and work of four different ad agencies as well as the internal creative teams for all home and storewide advertising. He collaborated on co-branding campaigns with Nike, Martha Stewart, Ralph Lauren and many more. It was here that he created Target Corp's first website and developed an interest in how brands and people use.