Alex Gans — Head of Creative for brands with complex stories to tell

I grew up in Miami with a Super 8 camera in my hand, shooting everything I could — skateboarding, short stories, anything that moved. My mother happened to work opposite Dean Martin, Peter O'Toole, and Kirk Douglas across Hollywood and Europe for four decades. That probably had something to do with it.

The summer before my final year of grad school, I spent a semester at MTV, VH1, and Nickelodeon in New York — cutting and working in on-air graphics. Then I finished my MFA and moved to Los Angeles to do it for real. That was 25 years ago.

Since then I've led creative for Microsoft, Mastercard, TikTok, GrubHub, and the United Nations. I embedded at Cedars-Sinai for three years — building crews and directing 100+ award-winning films inside one of the country's top hospitals. I ran The Score's entire West Coast esports operation, from weekly LCS coverage to BlizzCon, LOL Worlds, and COD Championships. I taught film editing and motion graphics at the Art Institute of Hollywood for nine years and the New York Film Academy for two. And I've cut 55+ feature films along the way — the full filmography has its own page.

What makes me useful at the Head of Creative and Creative Director level isn't just range — it's that I've never stopped being an editor. I understand cost, time, and craft at the frame level. That changes how I brief, how I pitch, and what I promise a client.

I understand the full creative pipeline because I've led every part of it — strategy, production, post, and delivery. I'm also an early and active adopter of AI-assisted creative workflows, using it as a tool to move faster and think sharper.

Give me the goal, the deadline, and the quality bar — I can build the team, the system, and the story to get it there.