Cedric Devitt

Cedric Devitt

Chief Creative Officer at Big Spaceship
New York, United States

About me

Cedric serves as the Chief Creative Officer at Big Spaceship, where he’s charged with growing and overseeing the creative output of the agency’s work across all clients in Brooklyn and Seoul.

Before joining Big Spaceship, Devitt served as Chief Creative Officer of MRY. During his tenure the agency was named OMMA Social Media Agency of the Year and Mashable Digital Innovator of the Year.

Prior to MRY he was recruited to help start LBi in the US in 2010 with the merger of Special Ops Media and Icon Nicholson. Over the next 4 years, the New York agency became the most awarded agency in the LBi Network.

Previous stints include almost a decade leading the creative vision at TribalDDB and Grey Worldwide.

Client experience includes AT&T, Adobe, Coca-Cola, Sony and Johnson & Johnson among others. His work has been recognized by the One Show, Clios, Webbys, Shorty’s, ANDYs, LIAA, Lovie Awards and the 2012 SXSW People’s Choice Award.

Outside of work, Devitt co-founded the US Air Guitar Championships and produced Air Guitar Nation, an award-winning feature documentary about the rise of the competitive air guitar.

Cedric was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. He has a BA in History from Trinity College Dublin, and currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

Positions

Chief Creative Officer
Brooklyn, United States
March 2015 - Present (9 years 6 months)
Chief Creative Officer
MRY
New York, United States
January 2013 - January 2015 (2 years)
CFO
US AirGuitar
2000 - 2014 (14 years)
Chief Creative Officer
LBi US
January 2013 - July 2013 (6 months)
Coca-Cola Olympics - Move to the Beat of London 2012
Executive Creative Director
LBi
2010 - January 2013 (3 years)
DONKEY V ELEPHANT
Creative Director
TribalDDB Worldwide
2001 - November 2009 (8 years 10 months)
Copywriter
New York, United States
1997 - 2000 (3 years)
Interviewee
Brooklyn, United States

Education

Bachelor of Arts, History

1990 - 1994 (4 years)

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