Mark Fenske
Creative Director, VCU AdCenter

In 1978 he started at a small agency in Atlanta that no longer exists. Then 2 years at a small agency in Chicago that no longer exists. Followed by 5 years at the then largest agency in the world, Young & Rubicam.

In 1984, he went to Zechman & Associates in Chicago, where, he says, "I finally started to do what I do."

In 1986 he went to work at Wieden & Kennedy in Portland, where he "learned how high to aim." In 1990 he started the Bomb Factory in Los Angeles, an ad agency/commercial production hybrid. He wrote and directed Van Halen's "Right Now" music video-which won MTV Video of the Year and Director of the Year in 1992-directed music videos for the Indigo Girls and commercials for Coke, Nike, Coors Light and others, and at the same time was Visiting Creative Director at Cole & Weber in Seattle as well as an instructor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena from 1989 to 2000.

In 1995 he became Chief Creative Officer of N.W. Ayer in New York. They fired him in 1996.

A member of the Screen Actors Guild, he has done numerous voiceovers, including Nike,
Subaru, and Cheese-It.

He is on the board of directors of two other ad schools: Creative Circus and the Wieden & Kennedy experimental school 12. He's been teaching at the VCU Adcenter in Richmond, Virginia, since 2001.