Shogo Sano

Shogo Sano is a rare breed of advertising agency person. He has been working in advertising agency area for over 30 years. After decades of being creative director at the third largest agency in Japan, He moved to a small creative boutique in Los Angeles to start his new road as creative director for global market. He established the Japan branch and took full responsibility for all the international accounts. As a writer, film director, art director and creative director in advertising, he has produced award winning works and integrated ad campaigns for many well-known brands and clients ranging from Toyota, Guthy Renker, Danone, AIG, DeNA, Canon, House Foods, Peninsula Hotels and many more. After 15 years at C2K, he started his own creative firms Hive Los Angeles for global brands. He enjoys playing with social media to boost worldwide campaigns for multi national clients to spread out their brand assets with the new way. His current clients are Toyota, Olympus, MS&AD Insurance Group, Proactiv, WEN, Cetaphil among others. English/Japanese bilingual. He has been awarded numerous advertisement awards including IBA, Terry, Emmy, Dentsu, Yomiuri and so on.