Rick
Mathieson is an award-winning writer, author, speaker and frequent
media commentator on the converging worlds of marketing, media
and technology.
His insights on postmodern marketing have been
featured in ADWEEK,
Advertising Age, Wired and on MSNBC, CBS Radio
and NPR.
His research into next-generation business models has earned praise
from USA Today and Dow Jones Interactive.
His book BRANDING UNBOUND has ranked
among Amazon.com’s
top-selling books on advertising, and was rated “one of the best
marketing books of the year” by Midwest Book Review. And
it has been selected for inclusion at the business school libraries
of UC Berkeley, Stanford, Georgetown and Harvard. His second book,
THE ON-DEMAND BRAND, hits bookstores Spring, 2010.
Mathieson has also been a featured speaker
at industry events such as Digital Hollywood, The Global Retail
Executive Council, The Microsoft Leadership Forum, Yahoo’s “Branducation” lecture
series and The American Management Association’s “Corporate
Branding” series, among others.
Over the last few years, he has briefed
executives from FedEx, Virgin America, Bloomingdales, Yahoo,
MasterCard, Hard Rock Café,
Accenture, Novartis, Franklin Templeton, and many others, on trends
in digital marketing and emerging media platforms.
Mathieson has also served as an adviser to venture capital firms
seeking expert opinion on potential investments in companies developing
consumer-facing digital marketing solutions.
As Harvard Business School’s Working
Knowledge puts it,
Mathieson is “a strategic marketing expert” whose work “demystifies
successful practices in a way that should encourage and inspire
other marketers.”
A veteran of the advertising industry,
Mathieson currently serves as vice president and creative director
for one of Silicon Valley’s
most prominent advertising agencies.
Over the course of his career, he has produced
award-winning creative work for a veritable “Who’s Who” of global brand
names, including HP, Sun Microsystems, Palm, Business Objects,
NEC Solutions America, Cellular One, Ferrari Club of America/West
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