Josh Rogers
Founder, Chief Brand Officer @ Ancient Drinks
About
I’m a brand leader who’s spent 25+ years working at the intersection of strategy, creativity, and innovation to build brands of cultural importance and commercial performance. Trained as a brand strategist, I evolved into executive creative leadership and agency-building, and expanded that practice at IDEO, where I helped integrate invention and storytelling into business outcomes. Today, I lead Ancient Drinks, the super healthy modern hydration brand I founded, along with Born&Raised, the studio I built to grow existing challenger brands and invent new ones. I also co-founded Common House, a contemporary social club in emerging markets, built to reimagine hospitality and community for ex-urbanites. My work’s been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, Vogue, Contagious and The Wall Street Journal. It has served as the central subject for an SNL sketch and multiple mayoral press conferences, and it’s been recognized by Emmy, Clio, Communication Arts, D&AD, Effie, among others.
United States
Charlottesville
Food & Beverages
Event Production, Organizational Design, Game Design, Innovation Development, Experiential Marketing, Creative Leadership, Public Relations, Social Media, Team Leadership, Copywriting, New Business Development, Business Strategy, Product Innovation, Architectural Design, Brand Experience, Fundraising, Brand Strategy, Campaign Development, Digital Marketing, Creative innovation
Experience

Founder, Chief Brand Officer
Charlottesville, Virginia
• Founded and scaled the super healthy modern hydration challenger brand with a 90% multi-repeat purchase rate and projected 400% YOY growth. • Built brand, product, innovation pipeline, and go-to-market strategy from zero to 400+ retail locations and counting. • Led creative development, formulation, brand storytelling, sales and retail growth systems. • Positioned the brand at the lifestyle intersection of wellness, performance, and culture.

Co-Founder
Charlottesville, Virginia
• Designed the original brand, membership model, and experience identity for the modern social club that redefined hospitality and community in emerging markets for ex-urbanites. • Helped expand the brand across multiple markets and cultural contexts. • Led creative direction, storytelling, and cultural positioning at launch and scale.

Founder, ECD
Charlottesville, Virginia
• Created the first-of-its-kind global Amazon campaign for Woolmark, transforming the world’s largest marketplace into a global storytelling platform, generating 46 million impressions, ROAS 23.27 and $8.3M attributed sales. • Created Adidas x Woolmark campaign, introducing merino wool as high performance fabric during Boston Marathon. • Led reposition & rebrand for Australia’s preeminent candle maker to become a leading global fragrance brand. • Conceived, incubated and launched two brands from scratch—Common House & Ancient Drinks.

ECD
New York, United States
• Brought NFL to London and created oneworld’s first integrated campaign, resulting in in their best financial year ever, with revenue gains of $220M versus the year prior, an increase of 34% • Helped expand the experiential studio’s brand practice, integrating immersive storytelling across all touchpoints. • Managed multi-disciplinary creative teams and large-scale brand expressions.

Partner, Concept Director
Powell/MFP/WeAreGigantic
New York, United States
• Repositioned and relaunched New York’s favorite beer into a cultural juggernaut with sales +2,500% and gritty marketing that was loved by SNL writers, hated by the mayor and deemed “city beautification” by The New York Times. • Managed strategy and creative department of 50+ as partner, leading new business team to $50M in wins. • Tapped by Robert Redford to strategically reposition, creatively redefine the Sundance family of brands while leading creative campaigns for Sundance Film Festival.

Strategist, Writer
New York, United States
• Contributed strategy and storytelling for existing clients and winning pitches during identification and acquisition by major holding company. • Developed strategy and creative across agency’s core brands to attract influencers and earn media. • Customized new global positioning across all sports, celebrity and cultural pillars to support Reebok relaunch.
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