Patrick Ackmann (37) is a German Executive Creative Director / Lead Creative,
who has worked for international advertising agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi,
Ogilvy & Mather, Havas Worldwide and WEFRA LIFE.
Pat is currently working for WINGCOPTER – delivering the future.

Pat grew up near Berlin. Always interested in creating things and being bored of school, he was founding a design company at the age of 16. Creating websites and other content for middle weight businesses. At the age of 19 he moved to London where he was teaching theatre lessons and German at a local school and also managed to visit the Putney College of Art and Design. His advertising career started 2005 at Saatchi & Saatchi, Frankfurt. Where he was thrown into the first European wide jobs for T-Mobile, Sony Ericsson and P&G. Pat soon decided to skip university and to take a shortcut by continuing with what he liked so much: Creating ads.

Since then Pat has been working together with Formula 1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel and the grand senior of German film Mario Adorf. Pat has turned cinemas ice-cold and developed an interactive driving game (The Piss Screen) installed in pubs.

Today Pat is the Executive Creative Director at WEFRA LIFE, one of Gemanys leading healthcare agencies with 175 employees, specialized in the ever growing field of healthcare, pharma, sport and everything involved in the human well-being.

He has won over 350 national and international awards inlcuding a Grand Prix and two "Best Agency at Show" awards as lead creative director.

Pat is an active jury member at advertising, efficancy and design awards, such as:
Cannes, Effie Awards, EuroEffie, New York Festivsal, Clio and others

Pat enjoys travelling, great music and meeting people.
His new favourite thing is being the daddy of two cute & wild little daughters.