Adam Gorode

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at AGW Group

Associate member since 2017
Region - United States

Biography

Gorode co-leads the award winning agency’s creative vision and growth, working with iconic companies that include Condé Nast, Red Bull, Dots, Armani Exchange, MTV, Mother New York, and ’47 among others.

Under Gorode’s leadership AGW has gained notoriety for their unique ability to engineer brands’ participation in elusive cultural circles earning the company over 11 awards in the last year, including a Webby and a Clio for their work with HBO, and a Mashable Mashie for their work with Target.

Prior to founding AGW, Gorode worked with agencies and Fortune 500 companies, crafting digital strategies that helped his clients adapt to the emergence of multichannel networks and shifting consumer behaviors.

Gorode's career started at Syracuse University, where he studied music business and moonlighted as a concert promoter booking Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, and several dozen acts to campus. Gorode recognized early on that social media and mobile technology would upend industries and expanded his focus beyond music to create a company equipped to take advantage of the new landscape, in pursuit of fostering richer exchanges between culture creators and brands.