Mike Byrne is a former Creative Director at Wieden+Kennedy Portland, where he served as the co-creative chief for the agency's cornerstone Nike Account from 2000 - 2006. During his tenure, W+K Portland amassed more awards than any other agency in the United States including two 'Agency of the Year' honors. Importantly, Nike's business grew exponentially during the course of those six years.

While at W+K, Mike managed a creative group of over thirty people, oversaw creative development for Nike in the US and Latin America. Sub-brands with Nike included: Basketball (Pro and Collegiate), Football, Baseball, Running, Cycling (Lance Armstrong/LiveStrong (Yellow Band), Olympics, Soccer, Tennis and the ACG division. Products included both footwear and apparel for men and women.

Mike's work on Lance Armstrong's "Yellow Band” campaign helped raise over $50 million for his charity, LiveStrong. And, almost four years later the yellow band is still on the wrists of millions of people.

Mike has been recognized throughout his career for creative excellence. He has won numerous awards at The Cannes International Advertising Festival (including the Grand Prix 2001), D&AD, The One Show, Art Directors Club, Clios and CA amongst others.

Mike won an Emmy in 2004 for the film, "Nike Tag".

In 2002, Details magazine ranked Mike 30th in their "50 Most influential men under 40" issue. The following year Shoot magazine ranked him the third best copywriter in the world.

Mike is on the board of the Creative Circus in Atlanta, GA where he mentors designers, illustrators, writers and photographers. He keeps himself busy on the creative lecture circuit as well as frequent trips with his wife and daughter to hometown Philadelphia.

Richard Mulder Prior to joining Anomaly, Richard held several senior marketing titles at Nike, Inc. In his 11 years he led Nike's brand communications in Europe, the US and most recently in the Asia-Pacific Region. He helped grow the business exponentially in each region.

Richard has more than 100 Nike campaigns under his belt, that won over 75 awards, including an Emmy, a gold and several silver and bronze lions. "The Mission", "Freestyle", "Move" and "Nikelab" are just a few examples of projects he was involved in. Richard played a key role in building Nike as a global soccer brand and is the inventor of the Yellow "LiveStrong" Bracelet.

From 2001 to 2006 Richard worked closely with ex-W+K Creative Chief and current Anomaly Partner, Mike Byrne.

Richard was born and raised in Amsterdam. In 2000 he moved to the US.

Justin Barocas is the former Media Director of Wieden+Kennedy NY. During his 10-year tenure Justin created and developed the agency’s media operation into a $200mm award-winning independent unit of W+K NY.

Beyond managing and planning multi-million-dollar national media budgets, Justin has developed breakthrough media solutions for clients such as Nike, JetBlue, ESPN, AVON, and the School of Visual Arts.

In addition to receiving national recognition from CNN and USA Today for his innovative media solutions, Justin’s work has been honored by the EFFIES, the OAAA, and The Cannes International Advertising Festival.

As a partner at Anomaly, Justin fuses communications strategy, brand strategy, communications and content for partners and Anomaly owned ventures.

Justin began his career at J. Walter Thompson, where he was selected to participate in the AAAA's exclusive Institute of Advanced Advertising Studies program.

Daniel Cherry has extensive experience in the advertising, entertainment, music, lifestyle, and sports marketing fields. Prior to joining Anomaly, Daniel was a Sr. Planner at Wieden+Kennedy from 2001-2004 where he led planning on the famed Nike and Brand Jordan accounts. His work on Nike included the global anniversary of the iconic Air Force One sneaker and the launch of the Air Force 25 sneaker. His work on Jordan has included award-winning campaigns for the Air Jordan signature sneaker franchise, launching NBA player Carmelo Anthony's line of sneakers and apparel. He was also an integral visionary behind the 2008 Jordan brand campaign.

Before W+K, Daniel was a co-owner of Frank151 Magazine and malbon Brothers Farms (mBF), the advertising and brand consulting division of Frank151 Media Group. While running mBF, Daniel led branded content, niche marketing and event promotions for heavy-influencer brands including AND1 Basketball, Molson USA, Oakley, Red Bull, Sprite, Toyota Scion, Virgin Mobile and Glaceau Vitaminwater.

Daniel got his start in advertising as an account/creative hybrid at Crispin Porter + Bogusky. While there, he succeeded in bringing AND 1 Basketball to the forefront of the athletic apparel industry, managing its advertising, production and promotional efforts.

The breadth of work for the AND 1 brand which includes the critically-acclaimed AND 1 Mixtape street basketball video that led to AND 1's nomination as 2000 Guerilla Marketer of the Year by Brandweek. Additionally, Daniel played a large role in developing the anti-tobacco "truth" brand, a campaign that has grown to be the most successful teen anti-smoking effort in history.

Daniel graduated from University of Pennsylvania.

Johnny Vulkan has held several high-level and peculiarly diverse positions in both the UK and US. Prior to Anomaly, Johnny led new product development projects at Fahrenheit 212 where he helped evolve new markets and products for P&G, General Mills and Starbucks.

Prior to 212, Johnny spent three years as the Chief Operating Officer of TBWA/Chiat/Day in New York before co-founding the Disruption Group for the company and becoming a Group Creative Director leading communications innovation work for MasterFoods, Absolut Vodka and the agency at large.

At Anomaly, Johnny is responsible for innovation on the agency's own initiatives and intellectual property, as well as stewarding digital strategy. He frequently can be found roaming new cultural centers, hunting for new trends in Tokyo, Berlin, Copenhagen and Shanghai.

Kate Boydell is a broad-spectrum marketing person with agency experience across the strategic, account management, innovations and production fields.

Prior to joining Anomaly in 2005, Kate was Director of Strategy at The Corporate Agenda, where she led communications initiatives for MasterCard, Samsung and Deloitte. Before that, Kate was a founding partner of Agencyengine Inc., developing a 'virtual agency' model to provide good quality, good value thinking to smaller clients.

After graduating Cambridge University, Kate became a WPP Marketing Fellow where she developed a strong cross-media perspective through rotations in the group's sales promotion, direct marketing and traditional advertising agencies in the the UK and the US. Kate eventually became apart of the integrated team that launched IBM's ebusiness campaign.

Kate has an MA from Cambridge University.

Jason DeLand is the former Partner and Director of Development for G2 Worldwide. While at G2, Jason directed the Diet Coke business and worked at the Grey Global Group level to integrate service offerings.

Before joining G2, Jason spent two years as Senior VP, Sales & Marketing for PCCW/Hong Kong Telecom, the largest marketer in Hong Kong and one of the Top 50 marketers in Asia. While at PCCW, Jason helped lead a marketing restructuring of the company's Business to Consumer group, worked on M&A marketing strategy, developed new product/content initiatives for Greater China and managed several agency relationships.

Jason began his career at the New York office of TBWA/Chiat/Day - where he became the New Business Director at 22 years of age. At TBWA/Chiat/Day Jason established a winning mentality & track-record amongst the new business team and put in place a sustained and integrated agency marketing program.

Kevin Lyons Prior to joining Anomaly, Kevin served as Creative Director for Urban Outfitters (NAS: URBN) - one of the most successful urban/youth retailers in the United States and Europe. In a 7-year tenure, Kevin helped shape the brand holistically, including: exterior signage, retail environment, digital design, packaging, posters & promotions, book and catalog design, labeling, and products (t-shirts, apparel, and lifestyle product graphics). Kevin also led the acclaimed music program, oversaw the brand's PR and marketing and the Corporate Design for the umbrella company Urban Outfitters, Inc., (Anthropologie, Free People and Urban Outfitters).

Prior to Urban Outfitters, Kevin served in a variety of diverse roles including, Design Director at Stussy Worldwide; Art Director for filmmaker Spike Jonze's Girl Skateboard Company; US Art Director for TOKION Magazine and Senior Designer for Nike Inc., where he was responsible for branding several big-time college and pro sports franchises.

In 2001, Kevin was named to "The Top Forty Designers Under Thirty" by ID Magazine.

He has written articles for the AIGA Journal, as well as addressing the AIGA twice including once as a published recipient of its Fresh Dialogues Series. He has held teaching assistant positions at both RISD and CalArts, and has been a visiting critic at the Yale Graduate School of Design. He was an Assistant Professor of Typography at the Pratt Institute from 2000-2002.

Kevin produces two clothing lines; one for 2K, called Atlantis and the other under his personal namesake, NATURAL BORN - both are distributed globally. His own work has been published worldwide from Thrasher, The Face, Lowdown, Anthem and Refill. He has shown worldwide including solo shows in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tokyo.

Kevin Lyons is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design where he received a degree in film and has a Masters Degree from CalArts.

James Conlon is Anomaly's head of Finance. Prior to joining Anomaly in 2006, Jim served for 5 years as Worldwide CFO of McCann Healthcare, where he was responsible for 22 companies around the world.

Jim's accounting and financial background spans marketing, manufacturing, consulting and academics. Prior to his 11-year career in marketing communications, Jim was an auditor and management consultant for Deloitte & Touche for 5 years, he served as Finance Director for Dainishisieka Color and Chemical Manufacturing for 10 years and was an Adjunct Professor at FDU Graduate School, where he published Advance Accounting Textbooks for McGraw Hill.

Jim is a Certified Public Accountant and holds his MBA from Pace University, and a Diploma of Information Systems Auditing from NYU.