Curt has lived and held executive leadership roles in New York, Tokyo, Paris, Singapore, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and San Francisco.
He joined Grey from Arnold Worldwide where he was EVP, Managing Director and a member of the Global Executive Committee.
Prior to Arnold he was the Executive Vice President, Executive Creative Director of McCann Erickson North America where he was tasked with bringing a new creative energy to the agency offices across the US and Canada.
Curt also sat on the McCann Worldgroup's Worldwide Board of Directors as it’s youngest and only creative member, and was part of McCann’s Global Creative Council.
In years prior, Curt was part of the global emergence of TBWA\ as the top creative network in the world. He ran their largest piece of business in three separate regions, was ECD of TBWA\Japan, Managing Partner, TBWA\Singapore, Regional Creative Director of TBWA\G1 Europe and Creative Director, TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles. While with the network, Curt’s work was recognized by D&AD, The One Show, The French Art Director’s Club, The German Art Director’s Club, Cannes and Communication Arts.
During the earlier part of his career, Curt worked for Leo Burnett in Singapore and Hong Kong where he cut his teeth as both art director and copywriter. He was instrumental in launching MTV Asia and, by the age of 26, Archive Magazine ranked him as one of the top 20 copywriters in the world.
Curt’s creative accolades include Best Documentary at The One Club’s One Screen Awards, One Show Interactive, D&AD, Yahoo Top Viral Video of The Year, Cannes, Effies, IAB Mixx Interactive Awards, Communication Arts, Archive Magazine, The Singapore Creative Circle Awards, The New York Festivals, The French Art Director’s Club, The London International Awards, The German Art Director’s Club, The One Show Advertising, Hong Kong Media Awards, The Clios and others.

Curt is a regular on-air contributor for Bloomberg-West on topics of marketing, social media, and tech.

Janet Brown is CEO of FilmBuff, an award-winning full-service distribution company with a focus on delivering high quality, compelling film and video to targeted audiences. Prior to FilmBuff, Janet was part of the media and entertainment strategy consulting practice at Accenture in London from 1998 until 2004 where she drove business strategy for clients including News Corp., Warner Music, Film Four, Telewest and Granada. After moving back to the U.S., she was a strategy consultant for Yahoo! Media Group and headed up research at Cinetic Media in New York. In addition to FilmBuff, Janet serves on the Influencer Advisory Board at Sparks + Honey and is a mentor at the Founder Institute, the world's largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program, which helps aspiring founders across the globe build enduring technology companies.A native of Toronto, Janet received a B.A., Joint Honors in economics and political science from McGill University and an MBA from Columbia University.