Josh Kalms

CEO

United States12 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founded leading advertising brands with millions of followers.
Expert in creative performance for effective advertising.
Lifelong martial artist with advanced black belt.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a MarTech expert with a strong focus on creative advertising strategies.

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About

I co-founded Brilliant Ads & Ad Professor. The largest advertising media brands in the world. 1.5M+ LinkedIn followers, 25K+ newsletter subscribers, read by marketing teams at Nike, Red Bull, Ogilvy, and Lego. Every week, we interview the marketers shaping modern advertising. Recent guests include Puma, TikTok, and Visa. I'm also the CEO of Multiply, the creative performance layer that makes advertising actually work. Most brands hit the same wall: their media agency has no creative resource, their in-house team can't move fast enough, or their creative agency builds beautiful ads that don't convert. We plug into whichever setup you already have and fix it without replacing anyone. Outside of work, lifelong martial artist — black belt 2nd Dan kickboxing and brown belt Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Experience

12 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Ap

CEO

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Help the world's biggest brands create unforgettable advertising campaigns --> adprofessor.com
We also curate the smartest, most effective ads from around the world and send them straight to your inbox: adprofessor.com/newsletter

Brilliant ads

CEO

Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 9 mos

The largest advertising media brand in the world. 1.5M+ LinkedIn followers, 195K+ on X, 400M+ people reached annually.
Every week we interview the marketers shaping modern advertising — recent guests include the Head of Marketing at Puma, Marketing Campaign Director at TikTok, and Senior Director of Marketing at Visa.
Read by marketing teams at Nike, Red Bull, Ogilvy, Pepsi, and Lego. brilliantads.ai

Multiply | creative performance agency

CEO

Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos

The creative performance layer that makes ads actually work.
Most brands hit the same wall: their media agency has no creative resource, their in-house team can't move fast enough, or their creative agency builds beautiful ads that don't convert. We plug into whichever setup you already have and fix the creative bottleneck — without replacing anyone.
Ads in market in days. Built to test. Built to iterate. Clients include Ramp, Scale AI, Gamma, Monzo and more.

Jungle creations

Partnerships

Oct 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · London, United Kingdom

Managed the sales and revenue at Jungle Creations from the Omnicom patch. Built and managed campaigns with Warner Brothers, McDonalds, Pepsi, Walkers, Hasbro, McVities, UK Government, WWF and many more global clients.
Jungle Creations is a media, marketing and commerce company for the social age, specialising in creating high quality content which is distributed through our network of media brands which have over 121 million followers across platforms.