Hasta La Creative!

Jon Jackson was promoted to global creative director this week from executive creative director at Brooklyn-based digital agency Huge, which also has offices in Rio de Janeiro, London, and Singapore. The California native began his career at Disney and worked at Sapient Nitro prior to Huge. He’s worked for clients from Coca-Cola to Gucci, and most recently FX and ‘The Simpsons.’ He shares a few fun facts about himself in this week’s “Six Things.”

1. He might have become a professional baseball player. If only his pitching had been as strong as his trash talking. Mr. Jackson played on the American Legion team, an all-star high school program, and later played at his local junior college where four of his freshman year college credits came from baseball.

2. Baseball taught him not to play with dynamite. One of his coaches — who had come close to playing bass for heavy metal band Metallica –inspired team members to test their limits. “We lit a stick of .dynamite together and almost got arrested,” said Mr. Jackson. That was the beginning of the end of his baseball days.

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