Marketing + Growth
Ariel Aaron
Ariel brings the audience, advertising, and growth lens—connecting the brand to the people it needs to reach without sanding away its personality.
Good work starts with good people in the room.
Wild Monkey is a family-built creative studio for people who want ambitious work without an agency relationship that feels distant or precious.
Pull up a chairCome as you are
We take the work seriously.
Ourselves? Not so much.
You do not need agency vocabulary, a forty-page brief, or a perfectly formed answer. Bring us the business problem, the weird instinct, the thing that is not working yet. We will start there.
Wild Monkey grew out of family, creative kids, experiments, hard conversations, and people making things together. That still shapes the room: direct, curious, generous with context, and comfortable enough to tell each other the truth.
What it feels like
Close enough to collaborate.
Structured enough to move.
Family energy does not mean fuzzy process. It means nobody should have to perform, guess what is happening, or fight to be heard.
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Talk like people.
No agency decoder ring. We explain the thinking, say when something is not working, and make room for the context only you have.
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Make it together.
We do not treat feedback like a threat or collaboration like a ceremony. Strategy, craft, and client knowledge belong in the same room.
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Keep the signal clear.
We protect the real goal from scope noise, trend-chasing, and the urge to make every single thing loud at once.
Where the name came from
Seven creative kids gave us the name.
They also gave us the standard.
Between our two founders are seven kids who dance, draw, act, animate, design, and live in the arts. Wild Monkey became a promise to them—and to every creative kid who has heard that art is not a “real job”—that imagination can become a profession, a livelihood, and something lasting.
The name is a nod to the beautiful chaos of raising creative kids. The work carries the same energy: curious, direct, a little unruly, and serious about making something worth noticing.
Take the long way through our H!StoryAt the table
Different instincts.
Same table.
Brand, growth, and technology live together here because those conversations are better when they happen early.
Brand + Creative
Henry Carter
Henry brings the identity, art-direction, and design-system lens—finding the idea that makes a brand recognizable, then pushing until the whole experience belongs together.
CTO · AI Partner
Don
Don leads product architecture, engineering, AI systems, infrastructure, and the technology layer that helps the studio build ambitious things without making them fragile.
The crew is growing
More hands. More angles.
Same standard.
As Wild Monkey expands, these named studio personas represent the roles and disciplines we are actively building into the team. The portraits stay small on purpose; hover, focus, or tap one and the story gets painted in.
UI/UX Designer
If a digital experience feels harder than it should, Elliot is usually mapping why—then simplifying the path without sanding away the personality.
Elliot
Elliot Lynas
Layout + Environmental Designer
Nicole thinks beyond the screen, turning brand systems into pages, spaces, signs, print, and the physical details people actually move through.
Nicole
Nicole McKenzie
PR + Communications
Daniel helps the story travel—press, announcements, relationships, and the language that carries the work into rooms we are not standing in.
Daniel
Daniel Soli
Marketing Strategist
Jessica connects audience insight, campaign planning, and performance thinking so strong creative has a useful place to go next.
Jessica
Jessica Ro
Social Media Coordinator
Aoi keeps a pulse on the daily conversation—publishing, community, short-form storytelling, and the little signals that tell us what people care about now.
Aoi
Aoi Okamoto
Receptionist
Melissa owns the first hello and the studio rhythm—welcoming people, keeping details moving, and making sure nobody feels like they walked into the wrong room.
Melissa
Melissa Payton
CFO
Franklin keeps the numbers clear enough for brave decisions—forecasting, pricing, cash planning, and growth that can support the work instead of squeezing it.
Franklin
Franklin Hughes
The three things we keep
Seen. Heard. Loud.
In that order.
Attention only matters if people understand you. Volume only matters if there is something worth turning up.
Be Seen.
Make the difference visible.
We look for what should be recognizable before we decorate anything. The goal is not louder styling. It is a brand people can distinguish.
Be Heard.
Make the value land.
Hierarchy, voice, content, and digital behavior have to make sense in the real world. Cleverness never gets to outrank comprehension.
Be Loud.
Turn up what deserves attention.
Scale, motion, image, interaction, and campaign energy come in when they strengthen the signal. Loud is contrast. If everything screams, nothing is loud.
No perfect brief required
Bring us the messy version.
Tell us what changed, what is stuck, or what you want people to understand. We can start with the pressure before anybody pretends to know the scope.