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Hometown
Cincinnati, Ohio
Based In
Cincinnati, Ohio
THE PLACE THAT MARKED HIM
The caves of Maastricht. The center court at the Western and Southern Open.
WHAT HE KEEPS CLOSE
A growing library, an Alo Moves yoga practice
THE LINE HE LIVES BY
Discipline is where range comes from, not the other way around.
Jake sets the standard for relationships at W.Bradford, whether within the agency team or with its prized clients. He is the operating mind behind a business known for its creative output, and the steadier W.Bradford looks from the outside, the more of his judgment is in the foundation.
He has been at W.Bradford for five years and General Manager since 2023, with the same role now extending to AMBI. His expertise is product launch and brand positioning, and beneath that, the unglamorous infrastructure that makes premium creative actually deliverable: project management, account management, marketing operations, financial operations. He came through Xavier University’s Williams College of Business and the American Marketing Association’s collegiate chapter there. His range is the tell. He has been a ballboy at the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati for ten years, on the courts across from Federer and Djokovic. He has explored the caves of Maastricht. He collects books seriously. He took up yoga and let it change how he thinks about pace.
The pattern: a person comfortable across registers, equally at home in a service detail and a strategic decision. Exactly the role of a general manager at an agency that wants to feel premium without feeling precious.
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