Alastair Cotterill

Alastair Cotterill is the Global Head of The Studio at Pinterest, the company's in-house creative team. He joined from Instagram where he was on the European leadership team and oversaw advertising creative on the platform. Prior to that he was on the Creative Shop team at Facebook where he lead their first Cannes Lion and D&AD Pencil winning work, the first work into emerging markets like Russia, and was the global creative lead for the automotive category. Before this he set up and ran digital creative at Mindshare and did stints on award winning campaigns at Dare and MullenLowe. Alastair's a mentor at the School of Communication Arts and the Incubus incubator program and recently moved to California with his wife and son.