Dany Minaker
Dany Minaker was born and raised in Argentina. He is a multi-award-winning creative with 20 years of experience working with global brands. He was named one of the Best Top 20 Chief Creative Officers in the World by The Drum and “Creative Industry influencer of the year” by Creativepool.
His work has won at all the festivals around the world, amassing over 100 awards at Cannes Lions, including 2 Innovation Grand Prix Awards in 2021 and 2023 with Unilever, Degree Inclusive and Augmenthal’s Mouthpad.
Dany has created some of the most recognized advertising campaigns of Latam, achieving significant cultural relevance. His work has driven the local and global growth of important brands such as Coca-Cola, Movistar, Unilever, Amazon, Nestlé, Heinz, and Nike, among others.
IIn September 2015, Dany and his creative partner Patán joined Wunderman Buenos Aires, elevating the agency from 34th to 1st place in the local creativity rankings (source: agencyScope, Círculo de Creativos Argentinos). In 2017, they were promoted to Latam Chief Creative Officers, expanding their work to all regional offices, spreading their creative vision and making the Wunderman Thompson network the most awarded at Cannes Lions, New York Festival, Gerety Awards, LIA, and Epica.
In 2022, the duo moved to Miami and took on the role of Global Executive Creative Directors at Wunderman Thompson for The Coca-Cola Company. During this period, TCCC became the biggest client of the network.
In 2024, after the VML merger, they assumed creative leadership at VML Miami, working for both the Hispanic and general U.S. markets, delivering outstanding work for brands such as Wendy’s, GMCVB, FCA, and Sherwin-Williams.
Over the past 18 years, Patán and Dany have been creative partners and have also made their mark at BBDO Argentina, Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi, Vega Olmos Ponce (Lowe), and Ogilvy Argentina.
Their work has been highly recognized at the main ad-festivals, including Cannes Lions, One Show, Clio Awards, EFFIE Awards, D&AD, NY Festival, ADC, Project Isaac Awards, LIA, Sol Festival, Smarties, EPICA Awards, IAB, Webby Awards, FWA, ANDY, FIAP, Wave, Ojo de Iberoamérica, El Diente, and +DIGITAL, among others, winning over 700 awards in the past 5 years.
JURY EXPERIENCE
Cannes Lions 2019
Andys 2023
New York Festivals 2019
London International Awards 2021
Wave festival 2017
Project Isaac Adweek 2016
El Ojo de iberoamerica 2016, 2018 and president of the jury in 2020
SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS / AWARDS:
2024 Certificate of Appreciation, Impactful City Campaign, Award given By Steven Meiner Miami Beach Mayor.
2024 Gold at Cannes Lions, Movistar This Is Not a Game.
2024 Gold at Cannes Lions, Asdra Absurd Promises.
2023 Grand Prix, Mouth Pad, Cannes Lions Festival.
2022 Most Awarded Agency of Argentina, FIAP, WT Arg.
2022 Agency of the Year, Creative Pool, WT Arg.
2022 Agency of the Year, Unilever Awards WT Arg.
2022 Agency of the Year, MMA Smarties, Wunderman Thompson Brazil.2022 Media Grand Prix, Epica Awards, The Pirate Match, DirecTvGo
2022 Grand Prix, Unilever Awards.
2022 Degree Inclusive, winner 4 times at Andy Awards.
2022 Sustainable development pencil, Edina, Waterlight.
2022 NY Festival Best of show Design, Degree Inclusive.
2022 NY Festival WT Agency of Latin-America.
2022 Top 30 best creative CCOs, The Drum.
2022 Most Awarded CCO of the year at Wunderman Thompson, The Drum.
2021 GP Design, GP Innovation, GP Sound production at El Ojo de Iberoamerica.
2021 Mobile Marketing Association, Agency of the year.
2021 El Dorado, Titanium, Edina, Waterlight.
2021 LIA, Best agency & Network of Latam.
2021 Cannes Lions, First Argentinian Innovation GP, Unilever, Degree Inclusive.
2021 Cannes Lions, Most innovation network of LatinAmerica.
2021 Mentor at Creative LIAisons Coaching program.
2020 “Influencer of the year”, Creativepool.
2020 Grand Effie Peru and Brand Effie Brasil.
2020 First Latin-American GP at Epica Awards, Sony.
2020 GP Digital & Social at El Ojo de Iberoamerica, Sony.
2020 GP at Echo Latam, F. Huesped, HIV on Agenda.
2019 Cannes Lions, Brand Experience & Activation Jury of Argentina.
2018 Best Digital Creative of Argentina voted by the Advertising industry, Jerry Goldenberg.
2017 GP at Echo Awards, Mercado Libre, Based on Real Feedback.
2013 GP FILM at El Ojo de Iberoamerica, Abinbev, Hurricane Laura.
2013 GP FILM at El Ojo de Iberoamerica, Abinbev, Hurricane Martha.
2013 GP FILM at El Diente, Abinbev, Hurricane Laura.
2013 GP FILM at El Diente, Abinbev, Hurricane Martha.
2015 GP Integrated Campaign at El Diente, Universal Music, Move like Lorde
9 Adweek Project Isaac Awards.
+50 EFFIE Argentina & LATAM.
PRESS
https://www.adweek.com/agencyspy/wunderman-thompson-promotes-latam-ccos-to-global-ecds/
https://lbbonline.com/news/wunderman-thompson-appoint-patan-tarazaga-dany-minaker-ccos-for-latam
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/minakerdany/
