Ceo, Founding Partner
CurrentIn 2022, Verdes and Combo officially merged. Verdes began as an innovations and marketing consultancy focused on developing mutually beneficial ways for our clients and their consumers to connect. Combo launched with developing the Away brand before going on to build a prolific design studio working with brands such as Nike, Gap, Saie Beauty among many many other. Our capabilities span upstream strategic services such as research, brand strategy, business consulting and product innovation to further downstream creative services like branding, concepting, content and architecture. To achieve mutual value, our process requires close client collaboration, objective decision-making and a deep respect for everyone involved - including the consumer. While our output is diverse, one core principle guides all our work: the lowest risk investment a brand can make is to give their customers what they want. This mindset has led us to a process that is led by research, generates a high volume of ideas, shared early and collaboratively with clients, and results in well-designed concepts that are built to share. In the past three years, our clients have included Humana, Nike, Spotify, Puma, Jordan, Target, Converse, Samsonite, Twitter, eBay, Adele, Dremel, Diageo and Mass Mutual. Our partners’ work has been featured at a TED Conference, has been named one of the best 15 campaigns of the 21st century by AdAge, has won Best in Category in I.D. Magazine’s Design Review, has won Best of Show at the One Show awards, received titanium and gold lions at Cannes, a Yellow Pencil at D&AD and is archived in MoMA’s permanent collection.Feel free to message me if you’d like to learn more about the work we’re doing. www.combo.co
