David Kolbusz

Career path: Kolbusz earned a reputation as one of advertising’s most esteemed creative leaders, best known for turning around Droga5 London’s operation between 2015 and 2022. Before that, he was creative director at Goodby Silverstein & Partners, deputy executive creative director at Bartle Bogle Hegarty London and ecd at Wieden+Kennedy New York. So his next move—to New York-based independent agency Orchard last year—was much anticipated.  

A holiday jiggle: At Orchard, Kolbusz grabbed attention with Ocean Spray’s bizarre 2022 holiday campaign, “Power Your Holidays,” in which people jiggled around a Thanksgiving table—typical of his often absurdist style. Outside

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