Carisa Bianchi President TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles
Carisa began her career in advertising at Benton & Bowles and Doyle Dane Berbach. She joined TBWA\Chiat\Day as an Account Director on such clients as Sony PlayStation and Energizer.
In 1998, she was named President/CEO of TBWA\Chiat\Day San Francisco, growing the office from a start-up to over $250 million in billings.
Carisa was named one of ‘Advertising Age’s Women to Watch?’ in 2001. She moved back to Los Angeles in 2002 to become Chief Strategy Officer, overseeing all strategic initiatives, including Account Planning, Business Development and the agency’s signature disciplines, Disruption and Connections.
In 2005, Carisa was promoted to President of the Los Angeles office, and that year the agency launched The Disruption Consultancy, won the Visa account, gained another in a record number of Grand EFFIEs and was named Adweek’s Agency of the Year.
In 2006, TBWA was named Global Agency of the Year by Adweek and Agency of the Year by SHOOT and Boards magazines.
Carisa is an avid runner and recently completed her first marathon.
Experience: Anheuser-Busch, Cherry Coke, Energizer, Levi’s, Limited Too, Nissan/Infiniti, Pedigree, Sara Lee, silverTab, Sony PlayStation, Visa.