Agency Division

Simon Foster is the founder of Agency Division Inc. Foster previously served as Head of Creative & Integrated Production at Spot Runner in Los Angeles, where he ran creative operations. Foster joined Spot Runner as part of the acquisition of his company GlobeShooter, a Los Angeles based production company with a national network of high quality short-form filmmakers.

Prior to GlobeShooter, Foster was a freelance television commercial producer for dozens of nationally recognized brands and recording artists including Apple, Pepsi, Budweiser, Cisco, Marilyn Manson, and Gnarls Barclay. Foster previously served as Co-Founder and Executive Producer of Voodoo Pictures and Quentin Tarantino’s ‘A Band Apart Music Video’.

Formerly an Associate Creative Director at Spot Runner, Faella has led campaigns for established brands including Microsoft, Buy.com and Enzymatic, while launching new brands on television, like Legal Zoom and FOREX.com, with landmark success. An accomplished commercial director, Faella has directed over a hundred spots for brands ranging from Ford and Microsoft to Blue Cross/Indigo and DPS/DeBeers.

Faella makes his home in L.A., and is a proud native of Rhode Island where he worked as a speechwriter for the Mayor of Providence while concentrating in Art-Semiotics at Brown University.

John’s media planning experience includes Rodney Strong Vineyards, Random House, Activision, AEG, Bennigan’s, Beverly Hills Tourism, EVA airways, Harrah’s, IHOP, Memorex, Mitsubishi Electronics, PODS, Q-Lube, Quaker State, Telemundo, Union Bank of California and Unocal. John began media planning for Davis Ball Columbatto on the McDonald’s account, and then moved to TBWA/Chiat Day working on Quaker State, Upper Deck and Sony Playstation. John also has experience in the automotive industry planning for Acura, Honda, Infiniti, Kia, Nissan and Toyota. While at RPA he was responsible for the successful launches of the Acura MDX, TSX and the RDX.

Grady leverages his long-term vendor relationships to maximize ROI on every media campaign. Grady is known for his engaging enthusiasm with clients, and igniting excitement with his team. He is a true industry veteran who gets the job done with results. Grady joins Agency Division from Spot Runner where he oversaw all media buying for four years. Prior to Spot Runner, Grady managed WPP’s ‘The Media Edge/Young & Rubicam’ office in San Francisco for 10 years. His WPP responsibilities included client service and supervising broadcast buying for Clorox, Chevron and Charles Schwab. In addition, he oversaw his own Buying team on AT&T Wireless, Campbell’s Soup, Citibank, Ford, Metropolitan Life, Paramount Pictures and United Airlines. Additionally, he worked at Ketchum Advertising, managing the Bank of America account, as well as negotiating for the Beef Industry Council, DHL Worldwide Express and Southwestern Bell. Previous stints include negotiating for McDonald’s, Coke-Cola, General Foods M&M-Mars and Pizza Hut.

Born and raised in Waverly, Iowa, Cameron Hassman spent most of his childhood with his parents’ video camera in hand, making movies in his backyard. This hobby of making movies turned into a passion for film that brought him out to Los Angeles in 2001 where he studied writing, directing and editing at the Los Angeles Film Studies Center.

Since then, Cameron has established himself as an experienced editor, working at Miramax Films and NBC Universal cutting DVD materials, promos, and EPKs. His credits include “Children Of Men”, “Jersey Girl”, “Scary Movie 3”, “Clerks”, and “Bridget Jones’s Diary” among many others. He has also worked in advertising, cutting numerous TV commercials for brands including Baja Fresh, Buy.com, Legal Zoom, Forex.com, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Coldwell Banker, Lawyers.com, and DeBeers (DPS), for which he won a Telly Award. Cameron is a Member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, has a B.A. in Communications from Calvin College, and is currently studying ad copywriting at The Book Shop in Los Angeles.

A California native, Marc Jensen began his career as a copywriter at Valentine Radford in Kansas City. After honing his skills on such accounts as Hallmark, Pizza Hut and Sprint, he returned to his home state to join a newly formed creative team at Basso & Associates in Newport Beach. From there, his career path has taken him through ad agencies in the Los Angeles area as a full-time employee and freelancer, working on print, broadcast, online, direct response, collateral and outdoor campaigns for a diverse range of clients in the consumer advertising and entertainment marketing industries.

Additionally, Marc has a great deal of experience in leading creative efforts and has successfully managed teams of writers, art directors, graphic designers, editors and motion graphics artists to deliver successful campaigns on time, on budget, and without anyone losing too much sleep in the process. When he’s not working, you can find Marc running around the Silver Lake reservoir, browsing for the next addition to his vinyl record collection, or spending time with his wife, two kids, and faithful writing partner—his dog Bunny.

Aaron spent the last four years as a writer, director, and Associate Creative Director at Spot Runner, where he developed over 1,000 digital library ads and supervised strategic advertising & marketing campaigns for clients big and small. Prior to that he worked on large budget feature films (The Perfect Storm, Anger Management, 50 First Dates), putting him around great creative talent that taught him how to execute all kinds of stories in new and innovative ways.

Aaron graduated from the USC School of Cinema-Television and completed The Book Shop Advertising School in LA. One part ad-man, two parts writer/director, with a healthy dash of producer thrown in for good measure, for Aaron, more is more. More than 10 years of development and production experience in the entertainment industry. More inspired creative. More storytelling that connects people with ideas on budgets with accelerated time-lines.

At play, Aaron enjoys surfing, golfing (not really), reading, writing, photography, traveling and learning as much as he can about this world and the people in it. The only thing he fears more than sharks, bears and parking tickets, is becoming boring.

With a background in developing integrated media campaigns, Tamar Halpern is one of the original founders of the company CitySearch. She has created successful viral campaigns for clients such as CBS, AOL, and Mark Burnett. While at the advertising agency Spot Runner, she wrote and directed live action commercials as well as stock footage and graphic based campaigns.

Tamar’s background is also in filmmaking, with her feature “Shelf Life” called a “whip-smart” film that “taps into a fresh source for American Comedy” by Variety. She has written and directed award-winning features, shorts, music videos and documentaries and is the co-author of “How To Live Poor and Spoiled”, due to be out in bookstores next year. She is a proud alum of Hedgebrook, a funded writing residency for women, and holds a BA in Broadcast Journalism and an MFA in Cinema from the University of Southern California.

In 2004, Evan McEneaney graduated from Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles and since then has worked in advertising designing for broadcast, print, and web. Some of his achievements are motion graphics for clients such as Coca Cola, StubHub, Forex.com, Skype, H.D. Buttercup and Stuller Diamonds. He also animated the title sequences for the feature documentary “We Have the Power.” In addition to his graphic design skills, Evan is an experienced storyboard and character artist and his illustration work has been featured at 2009’s “The Golden Age” art show at New Puppy Gallery in Los Angeles.

Adam is the proprietor of Garden Variety Studios in Los Angeles where he provides audio post-production services to a wide variety of advertisers and independent and documentary film productions. Adam has worked with the likes of Rhapsody, Stub Hub and the Sundance Film Channel. After a successful career as a touring and recording artist for such seminal alt-rock bands as Jawbox and Shudder to Think, Adam turned his ear to advertising. Adam cut his teeth on successful campaigns for eBay China, Sanjiu Medical, and Hugo Boss. These led to the position of Senior Audio Engineer at Spot Runner, Inc. where he was an integral member of a creative team that serviced some of the company’s largest clients, including Buy.com, The Chicago Tribune, Stub Hub, The LA Avengers, Performance Bicycle, Enzymatic, Lawyers.com, Diamond Promotion Service and Legal Zoom.