Derek Green has been recently appointed the Chief Creative Officer of Saatchi & Saatchi Switzerland.

Derek moved to Geneva from his home town of Sydney, Australia over 3 years ago to become the CEMEA (Central Europe, Middle East & Africa) Regional Creative Director for Procter & Gamble.

Over this time, he won more than 30 international advertising awards for Ariel washing detergent together with a bronze lion at Cannes for Novartis. Not to mention winning the prestigious P&G Global Brand Building Award for the Best Holistic Communication.

Derek started his career in advertising in 1995 with Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand but decided that New Zealanders were a little weird so he moved back to Australia to start his own creative consultancy called The Hairy Banana.

After 5 years, his near multi-national sized consultancy merged with Leo Burnett, Sydney where he created many award-winning campaigns for Canon, Subaru, Kelloggs and Heineken.

Outside of advertising he likes skipping and patting kittens.