Tim Cawley

Tim Cawley

Founder & Chief Creative Officer at HeyLet'sGo!
Boston, United States

About me

Tim is an alum of agencies such as Mullen, Hill Holliday, Y&R and Carmichael Lynch. In 2014, he co-founded Sleek Machine, which grew to be one of the most highly-regarded small agencies in New England. In 2019, he took all he’d learned from that venture and channeled it into HeyLet’sGo!

Tim’s work as a Writer, Director and Creative Director has been featured in Adweek, Ad Age’s Creativity Online (where he has over 50 credits), One Show (which he’s judged twice), Cannes, Clio, Webbys (People’s Choice Winner), Communication Arts, and the New England Hatch Awards (twice winning Best of Show). He’s name-checked in the influential advertising book Hey Whipple, Squeeze This. Archive Magazine ranks him as one of the top ten U.S. writers of all time.

As a filmmaker, he’s directed hundreds of ads/pieces of content, and screened in competition at such festivals at Locarno, Montreal World, Vancouver, New Orleans and Independent Film Festival of Boston. Two feature documentaries he directed/produced, From Nothing, Something and make|SHIFT have been acquired for distribution by The Orchard and Gravitas Ventures, respectively. His narrative short Well-Founded Concerns won “Best Short Film” at Sci-Fi London.

Tim is also an ASCAP songwriter whose music has been featured in hundreds of television shows around the world - including one of those “Real Housewives” spinoffs, which made his mom super excited. His cover band once opened for Debbie Gibson at Syracuse University Dance Marathon.

Positions

Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer
Boston, United States
July 2014 - Present (9 years 8 months)
ADVERTISING, PR, CONTENT, SOCIAL STRATEGY, PRODUCTION & DESIGN
www.sleekmachine.com
CCO
Boston, United States
2014 - 2015 (1 year)
ACCOUNTS: Century 21, Lawn Doctor, Indeed.com, Empower Retirement, Iron Mountain, Bertucci's, Romano's Macaroni Grill, Celtics, Boston Globe, Seek Thermal, Tapco Building Products, Element Hotels, Aloft Hotels, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, CT Realtors.
Director
Director From Nothing, Something
2010 - 2014 (4 years)
Feature-length documentary on the creative process. Screened at film festivals in over a dozen countries. Released and distributed internationally by The Orchard. Available on iTunes, Amazon, Xbox and many other platforms. www.fromnothingsomething.com
SVP/Group Creative Director
Boston, United States
2005 - 2013 (8 years)
ACCOUNTS: Dunkin' Donuts, Major League Baseball, Toys R Us, Liberty Mutual, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, Great Wolf Lodge
Creative Director
Chicago, United States
2003 - 2005 (2 years)
ACCOUNTS: Miller Lite, Hard Rock Hotels
Copywriter
Minneapolis, United States
1997 - 2002 (5 years)
ACCOUNTS: Northwest Airlines, Rapala Fishing Lures, Formica, Hurd Windows, Boy Scouts of America, American Standard, Minnesota Lottery, Boston Beer
Copywriter
Pagano Schenck & Kay Advertising
Boston, United States
1993 - 1997 (4 years)
ACCOUNTS: Dexter Shoes, Sterilite Houseware, Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Wallpaper Council, Webster Bank
Copywriter
New York, United States

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Advertising

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