Dan Keston

ChRiS Gomersall’s career has spanned almost every creative position in advertising: owning an agency, teaching students, hiring hundreds of creatives, freelancing, consulting, working private, going public (twice), and everything in-between. Currently, ChRiS is a Creative Strategist inside the Facebook Creative Shop working with the biggest brands and best advertising agencies in the world. Prior to joining Facebook, ChRiS spent 10 years at Moxie, growing the creative team from 2 to 75 people, servicing clients like Verizon, Coca-Cola, L'Oréal, 20th Century Fox, Hewlett-Packard, Cartoon Network, and the NFL, as well as expanding the agency nationally starting with Los Angeles and New York. ChRiS has served on the Microsoft Gaming Advertising Advisory Council and the American Association of Advertising Agencies Branded Content Committee, and has judged several industry award shows including the ADDYs and the Art Directors Club of New York. He studied Fine Art/Advertising at Michigan State University and Art Direction/Interactive Design at the Portfolio Center in Atlanta. 

Dan Keston is an award-winning media executive and content creator with almost two decades of experience overseeing advertising, marketing, and other creative communications. Dan began his career writing television commercials and other traditional media for blue-chip clients at respected ad agencies like Draft FCB, where he once helped put to rest the beloved icon known as the Taco Bell dog. After many years of creating distinguished offline work, Dan joined the digital movement, first as a Creative Director on Cartoon Network and Fox for Moxie and then as General Manager at Break Media overseeing content creation for one of the largest digital and YouTube networks online. Dan has lectured on advertising, digital, and other media at the USC Annenberg School of Communications and New York University. He is also an acclaimed film producer, having been nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and showcased at the LA County Museum of Art. Dan graduated from Emory University, attended The Portfolio Center, and is a member of the Producers Guild of America.