Alexandra Velasco Email & Phone Number

Award-winning communications leader with experience working across the advertising and marketing industries for 10 years. Currently serving as Head of PR & Comms at Droga5, based in its HQ in NYC. Previously led PR & Comms at global agency GUT as Director of Comms for the entire Network, for offices including Miami, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Toronto, LA and Amsterdam.Over the course of my career, I’ve represented a range of companies and top executives, developing PR/comms strategies to establish them as thought leaders, highlight their unique capabilities and differentiate them among their competitors to help them win SOV and business. My clients have included top ad agencies, holding companies, production and post-production companies, global executives (C-suite) and brands, including Refinery29 and Pinterest. Secured multiple stories/placements in: The New York Times, Fast Company, Forbes, Bustle, Marie Claire, Flaunt Magazine, Ad Age, Adweek + many others. Proud to have won multiple accolades across the industry awards circuit, including in Cannes, D&AD, The Effies, Clios, The One Show, ANDYs and WARC Awards for multiple global brands, including Google, Activision-Blizzard; Kraft Heinz’s Philadelphia Cream Cheese and Heinz; DoorDash; Anheuser-Busch InBev’s roster of brands including Michelob ULTRA, and many more more.Career highlights & recognitions:-Helped Droga5 win its first Emmy in its 18-year history for "Rumble" by General Entertainment Authority-Led GUT LA to win its first Cannes Lions Grand Prix 2023 in PR for DoorDash’s “Self-Love Bouquet” campaign (the first Cannes Lions for the agency ever)-Cannes Lions Grand Prix 2023 and multiple Golds, Silvers and Bronzes for Stella Artois “The Artois Probability” (GUT Buenos Aires)-Securing GUT as the #2 company on Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies 2024-Cannes Lions Independent Network of the Year 2023 (GUT)-Cannes Lions Grand Prix 2022 + GUT’s first Super Bowl campaign: Google “Real Tone” (GUT Miami)-Adweek’s 2023 Breakthrough Agency of the Year (GUT Network)-Adweek’s 2023 International Agency of the Year (GUT Buenos Aires)-Led creation of the cover + editorial of Adweek’s Agency of the Year issue (Oct. 10, 2023)-Listed in Ad Age A-List 4 years in a row - #7 in 2021 and #10 in 2023; Finalist in 2020 and 2022 (GUT)

Listed skills include Editing, Social Media, Press Releases, Journalism, and 20 others.

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  University Of South Florida

  Mass Communication & Media Studies (Production) And English (Creative Writing)