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Name: Johannes Newrkla
Title: ADC*E Board, Founder and CEO, Bluetango, Austria
He is the founder and CEO of Bluetango, a Viennese advertising agency started after his studies in architecture and marketing in advertising as a consultant and creative. As a real European and a border-crosser he is the founding member of the Art Directors Club of Europe. For 8 years he held the presidency of the ADC*E; now he is a board member and the treasurer. “If you take Europe seriously then unity in diversity plays an important role because it means you must “think locally – manage globally”. Through this motto he wants to help to improve European creativity.
For twenty years Johannes Newrkla worked successfully as a partner with Demner, Merlicek & Bergmann, the most awarded agency in the country at the time. When he founded Bluetango he introduced the “networking” idea to small agencies such as Planners from London, Creatives from Amsterdam, Hamburg, Zürich, Vienna and San Francisco working together with the Vienna based team for Bluetango’s clients like Mobilkom Austria, Austria’s leading mobile network, Donau Insurance and others.
Johannes has won many national and international awards for his campaigns including the Golden Venus (the highest creative award in Austria) several times.
