Mark comes from a family of Entrepreneurs.
And has carried that spirit throughout his career. Mark's impact on the agencies he's worked with over the last 25 years has been transformational. At The Martin Agency in Richmond VA as a young art director, he helped modernize the agency gaining international acclaim with provocative award-winning campaigns for Saab, and Mercedes Benz. At Goodby Silverstein Wenneker created one of the most famous automotive ads of all time for Saturn, “Sheet metal”. Turned Doritos into an entertainment brand. Won campaign of the year with dozens of a quirky ads for Comcast. Immersed himself in the digital experiences across brand like Hyundai and created a series ads for Bud’sTRUE campaign. He lead and ran some of the agencies biggest accounts including Comcast, Doritos and Hyundai and Saturn, helping Goodby attain Agency Of The Year honors three times. As ECD of Mullen he transformed the crafty agency in the woods of Wenham into the global Challenger agency for Challenger brands like E-trade, Jetblue, American Greetings, Burger King and Acura. As CCO of Mullen he opened and oversaw offices in Boston, New York, North Carolina, San Francisco and LA. After He moved his family from Boston to LA to open the west coast office he went on to leading that office to a number of high profile wins including Patron, Grey Goose, Whole Foods, and Corona. As CCO of Mullen North America and a member of the Global leadership team he helped reposition the newly merged Mullenlowe into a Global challenger boutique, writing the global manifesto and leading the design of the new formed entity. Wenneker helped MullenLowe achieve major editorial acclaim, including being named a Fast Company Most Innovative Company alongside Ford, 8-time Advertising Age A-List Agency, and twice a Creativity Innovator of the Year. He and his team received 100’s of international awards included 15 Cannes lions, an Emmy For Nat Geo, The One Show Automotive ad of the year for Acura, and a Grand Effie for American Greetings with a powerfully moving mothers day ad called “The world’s toughest job”. In 2015 he founded Yeti Production, Mullen lowe’s in-house, multi-media content creation and production group which is now in offices around the world. From a public service perspective, Wenneker has been an early creative partner to Change the Ref, the grassroots gun reform movement founded by Manuel and Patricia Oliver, the parents of Joaquin Oliver, one of the 17 victims of the Parkland High School shooting in 2018. Recently Adage posted an article naming the 13 most significant shuffles in advertising sighting Mark’s departure from Mullen as one of the big significant moments of the year.