Sandy Tinsley started Tinsley Advertising and Marketing when few women were in the ad biz. She began as Ad Director for Holsum Bread, and eventually started her own agency with Holsum as her first client. Sandy pioneered content-based advertising when she created The Don Shula Show, the longest-running coach’s television show in NFL history.

It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty years since John first joined Tinsley. As an avid runner, John doesn’t tend to stay in one place for very long. But he’s been running Tinsley’s Florida Keys & Key West account team since 2001, and he’s helped us cover a lot of ground through some of the toughest circumstances anyone could imagine, 9/11, countless hurricanes, and of course, The Great Recession.

Artist. Musician. World traveler. Environmentalist. Organic farmer. Dorn Martell has worn many hats in his lifetime, and now he’s adding one more: Advertising Agency Owner. After 25 years as Creative Director at Tinsley, including one of the most unimaginable years ever in 2020, Dorn has taken a seat at the helm.

A veteran of the Madison Avenue rat race, Eric escaped from New York and showed up on our doorstep 26 years ago, and he’s been here ever since. (Well, except for an extraordinarily brief stop at “the-Agency-which-must-not-be-named.”) But Eric left us on good terms so the only thing we could do was say “we told you so” and welcome him back home again.

Statistics say the average person will have anywhere from 5 to 15 jobs over the course of their career. Lucky for us, and our clients, Nancy Stern is anything but average. Nancy arrived at Tinsley Advertising in 1983, fresh out of The University of Miami, and she’s been quietly toiling away in our media department ever since.

One day, some years back, this guy showed up at the office. He said his name was Rick and that he was the new writer. None of us had heard anything about it. But, to make him feel welcome, we gave him all the work we had. That turned out to be a stroke of genius.

Named for the mythical Greek God of digital photo retouching and exceptional art direction, Uly walked into our offices several years ago and virtually revolutionized the Agency’s graphics capabilities.

Born in the Downriver Detroit area Peter was considered genius level IQ at Palmer Park nursery school. This would serve him well at his first agency position helping implement the Nikon Image management system for Greenstone Roberts Advertising Coconut Creek.

As a superbly organized person, Kathy works with perhaps the most disorganized people in the world: the Creative Department.

Lisa counts herself among that rare and unusual species: The native Floridian. Born and raised in Miami Beach, Lisa consiaders herself an honorary “Conch” by virtue of her frequent family car trips to the Keys. As Tinsley’s very first producer, Lisa grew her career, had a great time and won her share of Addys, Emmys and Angels.

One part Manolo Blahnik. One part Tony Hawk. Danielle Salman is as comfortable on the good side of the velvet rope as she is shredding on a skateboard. And she manages to do both with a megawatt smile and impeccably manicured nails.

Morgan is part of the newest Tinsley generation, recently graduating from Florida State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, a minor in Psychology, a certificate in multicultural marketing, and a host of native digital skills. Pretty much everything you need to navigate in a modern ad agency.

Allie may be fresh out of school, but she comes to Tinsley with a world of experience. Or more to the point, she has experienced a lot of the world…having traveled to 13 countries.

When Korryn Warner joined Tinsley Advertising as a Studio Artist some 10 years ago, we knew it wouldn’t last long. In fact, her business card was barely dry before she was promoted to Senior Art Director.

One part Amelie, one part Heidi, French-born, Swiss-raised Vanessa Burguiere brings a wonderfully quirky, delightfully European sensibility to Tinsley Advertising.

What do fly-fishing mountain streams, a fascination with the cosmos and a Mac laptop all have in common? Tinsley Senior copywriter Mark Slatko, for one.

Y’know the old saying: “If you let something go and it comes back…then it was meant to be”? Well, that’s sort of how we feel about Lauren. She came to Tinsley as a summer intern while she was still a Design student at Syracuse University.

Whoever coined the phrase be careful of the quiet ones could easily have been referring to Tinsley Art Director Joshua Guilfoyle. Because while Joshua isn’t the most vociferous member of Tinsley’s creative department, his work takes no prisoners.