Joan Creative Leadership and Team Members

Dave Canning is currently Executive Creative Director of Joan. Before joining Joan, he was ECD of 180 Amsterdam, where he worked on clients such as Asics, Replay, DHL, Moyee Coffee, Qatar Airways and United Colors of Benetton, for which he won the agency's first D&AD Pencil in 8 years. Prior to 180, he was a CD at Barton F. Graf 9000, where he worked on accounts such as Little Caesars, Dish, Clash of Clans and helped win new business pitches for GoDaddy.com, Mars, and grubhub. While there, he created the award-winning Climate Name Change for 350.org. Before Barton, Dave was a creative at Wieden + Kennedy and Y&R, NY, where he helped create work for the Emmy winning “It’s Not Crazy, It’s Sports” campaign for ESPN, the Whatever’s Comfortable campaign for Southern Comfort and the Never Ending Projects campaign for Craftsman. His work has been recognized many times in every major advertising show including Cannes, D&AD, One Show, Clios, the ADC and the Andy’s. He was named one of the top ten most awarded creatives in the world in 2014. He lives in New York City with his wife, Kasia and his ceramic dog, Fusilli.

Lisa Clunie is the co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joan. Prior to co-founding Joan, Lisa was the Chief Operating Officer for Refinery29, the fastest growing digital media company for millennial women in the world. In this capacity, Lisa focused on revenue growth through deeper brand partnerships and drove quality, speed, efficiency and effectiveness for monthly content on every major platform. She helped guide the launch of the influencer network Here and Now, and audience development through highly focused content and distribution strategies which included a full Snapchat operation, state of the art analytics and testing labs, and new product development.

Prior to Refinery29, Lisa held executive and leadership roles at Ogilvy and Mather, Saatchi and Saatchi, BBH NY and Fallon. Over her career, Lisa led strategy and partnerships for Harley-Davidson, Unilever, Time Magazine, Pepsico, Brown Forman, Sunbeam, and Charter Communications. She is a four time Effie award winner, two-time mother and one-time wife. 

Jaime Robinson is the co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Joan.
Prior to Joan, Jaime served as co-Executive Creative Director of Wieden+Kennedy’s New York office, helping shape work for clients like Delta Air Lines, Brown-Forman’s Southern Comfort, Clinique, Equinox and Sprite.
Back in San Francisco, Robinson helped build Pereira & O’Dell, where she held the title of VP, Executive Creative Director. While at Pereira & O’Dell, Jaime led creative development for headlining campaigns, such as Intel/Toshiba’s “The Beauty Inside” (which won an entertainment Emmy for “Outstanding New Approach” along with three Cannes Lions Grand Prix in Film, Cyber and Branded Content), and helped create multi-award-winning work for LEGO, Skype, Mattel and Airbnb.
Jaime’s approach to creativity and marketing earned her a spot on Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business” and Ad Age’s “40 Under 40”. In 2014, she served as Jury President for Mobile at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.