Rob Smith

Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

Rob started his career in the UK, as a marketing client working for Comcast around the start of the UK Cable TV and Telephony boom. After a few years working with and running the agency relationships, he realized that his heart lay in the agency world and moved to Rapier, where he worked with clients such as Cable and Wireless, Eurostar and Barclays Bank.

Seven years at Ogilvy followed (both OgilvyOne and O&M), during which he ran first local, pan-European and then global pieces of business for both IBM and Motorola. Â By the time he left the New York office he had became Senior Partner and Worldwide Account Director.

Since joining Goodby Silverstein & Partners some 6 years ago he's run clients such as HP,  Banana Republic,  Motorola, and Crown Imports.  With Sprint he won the a Gold LIon for Best Integrated campaign at Cannes for the "Now Network " . More recently he has taken on the business development role at Goodby winning clients such as TD Ameritrade,  Modelo, Corona Light and Google. If he’s not working, he can usually be found skiing in Tahoe at every possible opportunity.