Garett Stenson Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Or, Us

ABHAB aka "A Bullet Hitting A Bullet", is a holding company and creative consultancy founded by Garett Stenson. Currently open to new engagements with bold brands, agencies, and entrepreneurs.

db clay is a creative research lab—exploring the future of identity through the lens of wallets¹, films², technology³

Portland, Oregon, Us

• Strategic Vision & Leadership: Partnered with Evolve co-founders to define their north star vision—crafting a strategic roadmap to guide the agency's future direction for long-term growth.• Operational Excellence: Led cross-functional workshops to identify operational gaps, pain points, and growth opportunities, delivering actionable recommendations to optimize the agency's operating system.• Integrated Marketing Strategy: Developed and executed a comprehensive marketing playbook encompassing strategies for newsletters, events, social media, awards, and advertising campaigns.• Brand Evolution: Orchestrated the agency's rebranding initiative, including a new website, a refreshed brand identity, and a cohesive messaging framework to hone the brand narrative and its market positioning.• Service Differentiation: Recalibrated the agency’s service proposition, establishing a distinct position of expertise that sets the agency apart from competitors and resonates with target audiences.• Business Development Leadership: Directed the business development function, collaborating closely with the leadership team to build new business tools, streamline outreach efforts, and cultivate strategic client relationships.• Sales & Marketing Asset Development: Built a comprehensive library of sales and marketing tools, including an upgraded capabilities deck, engaging sizzle reels, and compelling case studies to support business growth.• Client Relationship Management: Managed new client relationships, facilitating immersive client workshops, crafting thoughtful proposals, and developing pitch decks to drive new business.

Portland, Or, Us

• Co-founded and built to scale global storytelling studio that produces digital content, still photography, traditional and non-traditional film, motion graphics, UX, and experiential—from media and entertainment to culture and commerce.• Supported growth from $1M in annual revenue to approx. $50M in gross revenues over six years.• Established brand identity, marketing platform, scaled BizDev function to generate awareness and drive sales.• Authored case studies, directed sizzle reels, hosted/attended events.• Architected business processes across marketing, production, finance, and operations to maximize efficiency and quality control.• Executive produced a full-length feature film, a Tribeca Film Festival selection.• Led brand launches, global campaigns, and brand activations for clients including Amazon, Nike, Google, and dozens more. A few examples:→ AWS Retail: Led 20+ person creative and strategy team for year-long partnership, working closely with AWS marketing leadership to reposition flagship retail category. Foundational strategy and insights resulted in a new messaging framework, brand identity system, branded content library, 360 campaign platform, including activation at one of world’s largest retail tradeshows. → Amazon Employer Brand: Led 15+ creative and strategy team for year-long partnership, working closely with Amazon’s Employer Brand team to create multi-faceted storytelling platform. From initial new business pitch through successful delivery of episodic content series, all created during the pandemic with virtual production and UGC capture as key elements.→ Amazon Devices: Following successful delivery of more than two dozen photo/video shoots with Amazon’s Devices Team, created a comprehensive style guide. From casting talent to location scouting, to shoot production best practices, to finishing specs and more, delivered 70-page playbook that outlined clear content creation guidelines to elevate Amazon's Device category standards.

Portland, Oregon, Us

• Led branding, marketing, PR, social, and event programming as one of first ten employees of a global independent agency that believes in the power of creativity to impact people and shift culture.• Scaled business development function, including philosophy, process, tools, and templates to fuel agency’s growth.• Managed key accounts and contributed to strategy/creative sessions for clients such as Nike, Honeywell, Intel, and Red Bull.• Participated in innovation workshops and worked cross-functionally to align on vision and strategic roadmaps.• Managed studio experience team to elevate and drive brand/client/employee experience.

Portland, Or, Us

• Ran point on inbound/outbound business development opportunities for an international design and innovation firm that provides industrial design, interaction design, communication design, retail design, and service design services.• Led new business pitch process, converted leads, and galvanized creative teams based on market research, competitive analysis, trend/insights identification, and strategic development; contributed to marketing, content strategy, and event programming.• Built decks, wrote hundreds of statements of work, negotiated and closed deals.• Architected new business toolkit, template library, and case studies to maximize efficiency.

Portland, Or, Us

• Led brand redesign, including messaging, visual identity, website, and collateral within a managed cloud services and open source web hosting company that architects, builds, and deploys private cloud computing environments for clients worldwide.• Managed marketing, social media, PR, and events.• Scaled business development, strategic partnerships, and project management.• Partnered with Founder/CEO to establish business model and product/service strategy as well as unify vision. • Worked with DevOps engineers and network architects to tell company story.

db clay CHAPTER ONE:• Founded and built to scale a global fashion brand that specialized in wallets, featured in The New York Times, Complex, InStyle, Entrepreneur, LA Times, Refinery 29, Cool Hunting, Uncrate, and dozens more.• Created brand vision, 360 marketing mix, including traditional and non-traditional executions.• Art directed product photography, copywriting, and campaign platforms.• Established distribution in 500+ retail stores worldwide, including brand-owned dot com, selling 100,000+ wallets globally.• Led physical/digital product innovation, offshore manufacturing, and backend software development strategy.• Concepted and launched “Pocket Art Gallery” to showcase one-of-a-kind artist collaborations. • Invented “Do-It-Yourself” wallet making kit to inspire, empower, and open-source product platform. • Managed investor relations, raised capital, and executed on growth.