Matt Mattox Named New GEICO Account Lead

Written By THE MARTIN AGENCY

The Martin Agency Names New Account Lead on Geico

The Martin Agency has a new account lead for its largest client.

The agency promoted Matt Mattox to senior vice president, group account director on Geico, effective immediately. Mattox fills the role previously held by Ben Creasey, who left the agency last month to join Amazon Music at the same time that executive vice president, managing director Chris Shumaker departed his role.

“Behind every creative campaign is a strategic foundation that gets people talking,” Geico senior director, marketing Amy Furman said in a statement. “Matt is relentlessly curious and wired to challenge conventional thinking – a hallmark of Geico’s philosophy.”

Mattox formerly served as senior vice president, group planning director, a role he has held for over two and a half years. An agency veteran of over a decade, Mattox held roles as senior strategic planner and planning director before being promoted to group planning director in 2012.

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We are a full-service creative agency with a proven ability in leveraging audience and cultural intelligence to build distinctive brands globally. We’re committed to fighting invisibility with ideas that permeate culture, work that drives results for our clients, and a culture our employees are proud of. From creating the beloved GEICO Gecko, to modernizing UPS, a 115-year-old brand, by making them relevant to a new generation of culture-shifters and entrepreneurs, to lighting the internet on fire with Solo Stove’s “Snoop Goes Smokeless” campaign, we’ve been behind some of the most significant brand transformations in history. We're creating steady buzz for brands like Papa Johns, OREO, CarMax, UPS and TIAA, to name a few. And as Ad Age’s Agency of the Year (2023), 2x Fast Company Most Innovative Companies (2023 and 2024) and back-to-back Adweek Agency of the Year (2020 and 2021), our momentum is only building. For more information, visit www.martinagency.com.

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