EXCLUSIVE: Bond has hired Ben Brown as President, Head of AV and will team with Wayne Watson, who has led the division for the past two years, to lead the company together as co-presidents. Both report to co-founder and CEO Seth Phillips Althoff and will work closely with co-founder Luke Silver-Greenberg in future growth of the company.
The two will lead in distinct but collaborative lanes, each staying hands-on creatively while sharing responsibility for
developing Bond’s team.
Brown arrives from Zealot, where he served as SVP and established the company’s theatrical division, with cuts on
campaigns for Apple, Amazon MGM, Paramount, Sony, Warner Bros., Disney, A24, Searchlight, and Focus Features.
His work includes trailers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Widow’s Bay, Is This Thing On?, Eternity, Roofman,
Saturday Night, AIR, the A Quiet Place and Sonic the Hedgehog franchises and Here, whose campaign won multiple
golds at the Clio Entertainment Awards. He has also worked on campaigns for filmmakers including Martin Scorsese,
Yorgos Lanthimos, Bong Joon Ho, Darren Aronofsky, Emerald Fennell, and Derek Cianfrance. Before Zealot, he
spent nine years at AV Squad — where he and Watson first met — rising from producer to Creative Director, after
beginning his career in film development at Rogue Pictures and Silver Pictures.
Watson joined the company in 2024 after serving as President and Executive Creative Director at Ignition, energizing
Bond’s AV division raising the bar for creative excellence. Some of there recent cuts include Spider-Man: Brand New Day, The Odyssey, How to Rob a Bank, The Last House, Resident Evil, Insidious, Anaconda, and the HBO MAX rebrand.
Watson and Brown each helmed a trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, whose launch became the most-viewed
campaigns in history and whose $360 million opening this past weekend now stands as the biggest domestic debut of
all time.
Watson’s two years have also produced a round of promotions across the group which includes, Patricio Hoter promotion to VP, creative director. Among the earliest members of Bond’s AV department and its standard-bearer for the craft ever since, with Clio and Golden Trailer recognition spanning Insidious, The Pitt, The Penguin, Hacks, and Welcome to Derry and Smile. Other promotions included Bryan Dobrik to Creative Director, Tim Muraviov to Associate Creative Director and Michael Yanoska to Lead Editor.
“Our growth is always predicated on getting better, not just bigger. Better for our clients and better for our team,
because growth is what creates opportunity. Five of the six names in this announcement already work here and we
are proud to see them thrive,” said Althoff.
As for Bond, some of there recent work includes Spider-Man: Brand New Day, The Odyssey, Dune: Part Three, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Wicked, The White Lotus, The Pitt, Andor, The Penguin and Battlefield 6. Some of the partners they collaborated with on campaigns include filmmakers Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler, and Robert Eggers. Bond is the first agency ever named Clio Entertainment Agency of the Year in back-to-back years, an honor it has taken three times
