Andrew Essex is a business executive, journalist, and author based. He is currently an advisor to and the former Chief Executive Officer of Tribeca Enterprises, the parent company of Tribeca Film Festival. Until 2015, he was the chairman and founding CEO of Droga5, which won multiple awards under his leadership and was commended for its creative campaigns.

Previously, Essex was the executive editor of Details magazine from 2000 to 2004 and then served as the editor in chief of Absolute Magazine.

His writing has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Outside and several other magazines.

Essex is a frequent public speaker on media and marketing strategies. He is an angel investor in many technology firms and serves as an advisor to the White House Office of Digital Strategy and the Wharton SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management.

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