Currently a Professor of Media Design at the University of Colorado, Dan Ligon is a 25 year veteran of the advertising industry who has worked at various shops including CP+B, AKQA, JWT, Saatchi & Saatchi and others. While at CP+B, he helped launch the celebrated Small Business Saturday campaign for American Express, recently chosen by Ad Age as one of the Top 15 Ad Campaigns of the 21st Century.

A life-long creative, Dan is relentless in the pursuit of the next big idea and has helped numerous global brands including The North Face, Sprint, Hewlett-Packard, Walmart, Intel, AMD, American Express and others. In addition to his advertising career, he is a celebrated independent filmmaker who has premiered original movies at various film festivals, most notably Sundance. When not teaching, he’s usually up in the mountains of Colorado doing his best to not fall off his snowboard.