RON CLAYTON

Executive Creative Director

American Skiing Company, Cinemax, Discover Card, JP Morgan Chase, HBO, IBM, Luden’s Cough Drops, Maidenform, Monster, News Corp., PUMA, R.E.D.D. Energy Bars, Samuel Adams, Sugarloaf/USA, Sunday River, Walt Disney Studios, World Trade Center… the list goes on. Clients in virtually all categories have benefited from Ron’s brand- and business-building leadership.

Ron joined Grove after a long tenure at The VIA Agency, where he led the creative group, ran major creative engagements across all categories and helped the agency snag Adage’s “Small Agency of the Year” honors. His work has been featured in US Ad Review and has earned the Financial Communications Society’s highest honor; an Effie; numerous Hatch Awards; and an Emmy nomination for Jeep’s Wide World of Adventure Sports.

In addition, Ron wrote for Salt Magazine, an award-winning documentary publication, and for the feature film “Squeeze,” while working at Cathartic Filmworks as an undergrad. He also discovered the reclusive singer/songwriter Ray LaMontagne, got him a record deal, recorded his first album, “Trouble,” and set him on the road to becoming one of the most critically acclaimed singer/songwriters of our generation. Just think… all that and his parents still have no idea what he does for a living.

Ron is a graduate of Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont, where he was a nationally ranked ski racer and the University of New Hampshire.

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