WHM Creative

WHM is a full-service marketing and advertising agency that focuses on helping B2B brands connect with customers in meaningful ways that drive action. With a combination of authentic curiosity, creative intelligence, and data-informed strategy, WHM serves clients at every point in the marketing lifecycle, from brand creation to integrated campaigns, content, and go-to-market strategies. For more information, visit http://whmcreative.com/oakland/. WHM is a full-service marketing and advertising agency determined to reinvent the status quo. B2B brands seek out WHM to stop sounding like B2B brands and start connecting with customers. Product feature lists are transformed into messages that bring measureable results. And WHM's surprising new angles on the world's most impressive technology are finding their way to market. Recently relocated from San Francisco to the East Bay, WHM is thriving in their mission to rid the B2B world of blah. Clients like Apple, VMware, Cisco, Qlik, and LinkedIn, as well as a host of other tech startups, are reveling in this marketing approach - a rare combination of authentic curiosity, creative intelligence, and data-informed strategy. WHM serves clients at every point in the marketing lifecycle, from brand creation to integrated campaigns, content and go-to-market strategies. WHM is known for developing unexpected creative; delivering way beyond the brief; and always doing right by their clients, partners and team. Audrey Merritt | Founding Partner Audrey's award-winning creative, 20+ years of big-brand experience, and intimate understanding of startup culture dovetail in her stewardship of WHM. She guides WHM's direction and innovation, evolving its capabilities and building exceptional practices, and has led the agency to 10X growth in fewer than 10 years. Audrey has created a culture of curiosity, empowering teams to generate unexpected ideas that connect emotionally with customers - and especially for some of the most highly technical B2B companies on the planet. Thomas Whalen | Founding Partner Thomas spent the first 10 years of his career in entrepreneurship, opening both an art gallery and a retail clothing boutique in L.A. and growing the latter into four locations, including one in New York. For the next 10 years, he rose through the ranks in the agency world, guiding major brands in experiential marketing and environmental branding. At WHM, Thomas has spent the last 10 years leading high-tech B2B enterprise accounts, including the creation and rollout of the visual identity for one of the largest annual tech conferences in San Francisco, and has also overseen the rapid development key biotech accounts.