Jeff Ferro, Pereira & O’Dell’s VP of Production, oversees the agency’s creative quality and execution of successful advertising programs. Ferro has received two AICP Awards for product Integration for Skype’s (“Born Friends Family Portrait”, “Finding Donut”). Ferro recently produced Intel’s fourth blockbuster social film titled “What Lives Inside” starring Colin Hanks, Academy award winner J.K. Simmons and directed by Robert Stromberg (Malificent, Avatar). He has also partnered with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s incubator film project New Form to produce “Dreams of Emily Bloom” which launched in this summer. Pereira & O'Dell is the first advertising agency to win an Emmy against regular television programming, winning "Outstanding New Approach to Television” for the social film "The Beauty Inside" for Intel.
The agency was most recently named as a “Standout Agency” in Advertising Age’s 2015 A-list and as one of the "Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Advertising" by Fast Company in 2014. Ferro, a former Executive Producer for Foote, Cone & Belding, has also produced commercials for a wide variety of agencies including Crispin, Porter + Bogusky, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, BBDO, Young & Rubicam and Triple Double. Some of the many brands he has worked with are Volkswagen, Toyota, Sprint, ESPN, NFL Network, University of Phoenix, Muscle Milk, Ubisoft, AOL and DIRECTV.