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00 / 05·2026.Q2
Ashley Rudder·Portfolio 2026

Chief Creator Officer.

I operate at the intersection of creator fluency and enterprise leadership, building systems that move culture, revenue, and organizational capability.

From prestige beauty to agency leadership, I've spent 20 years turning cultural signal into commercial performance.

I design and run 360 growth systems across brand strategy, digital, content production, creator programs, and owned community.

For companies hiring across brand, content, growth, and creator strategy.

"An analytical mind, culture expertise, end-to-end strategic chops.
A special talent who makes people and the work better."
✦ Ronald Ng — Titanium Lion Winner · Global CCO, MRM
01 / Work

Proof of performance.

Brand systems
Since 2001
Case 01 / 03 Prestige Beauty · M·A·C Cosmetics · M·A·C TV
Global Director, Digital Content & Artistry

Beauty's first fashion-week newsroom.

I built M·A·C's fashion-week program from the ground up. Content teams across New York, London, Milan, and Paris. A visual system that established the brand as the backstage authority for real-time makeup trends. The centerpiece was M·A·C TV, the brand's IGTV channel and the named launch driver for Powder Kiss: a product tested backstage that built such momentum M·A·C built an entire collection around it. We shot the campaign. It ran in Times Square. The launch earned two hundred million dollars in two months.

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$200MPowder Kiss launch revenue
$10MM·A·C TV channel revenue
$20KTotal production budget
4Fashion capitals
Powder Kiss Campaign Times Square Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
Photography — Ashley Rudder
M·A·C · Powder Kiss

The campaign.

$200M · 2 months
Backstage Program
Digital Campaign
Times Square OOH
Case 02 / 03 Creator Campaign · Crib Around the Corner · Whalar
First Chief Creator Officer

The Cannes Lion.

I built the Chief Creator Officer role from scratch, ran creator strategy, and led the data-science team matching brands to talent. Crib Around the Corner took the Lion for effectiveness in social.

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$3M+New business influenced
+43%Creator network growth
70%Pitch-to-win rate
Cannes Lions Winner Social Effectiveness
Case 03 / 03 Luxury Beauty · Clé de Peau × Martha Stewart · HAUS OF SÔS
Co-founder, HAUS OF SÔS

Three billion impressions.

Clé de Peau needed more than a TikTok launch. It needed a luxury-native way to enter culture and sell an iconically premium hero product. We answered with Thirst Trap 101, built on our cultural-signal formula.

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3B+Impressions generated
222%Above TikTok benchmark
#1Hero concealer in category
Luxury Beauty Martha Stewart
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02 / Leadership

Enterprise leadership in practice.

Teams · Markets
Revenue

I've led global, cross-functional teams across beauty, creator commerce, and integrated agency environments. I build systems that scale across markets, move revenue, and translate culture into business outcomes.

M·A·C Cosmetics

Built and led a four-person social team delivering enterprise-level creative across 30+ countries. Helped grow the brand to 13M+ organic followers with zero paid advertising.

Whalar

Head of Creators, then the company's first Chief Creator Officer. Influenced $3M+ in new business, expanded the creator network by 43%, and helped support a ~70% pitch close rate.

Deutsch New York

Built and led SociStudio, a creator-first studio integrating brand, media, and content as a single operating system. Generated approximately $500K in new revenue and helped land clients including Chipotle and Rogue.

HAUS OF SÔS

Co-lead a matrix model built around a senior core team and specialized collaborators, keeping the company lean, highly customizable, and culturally sharp by design.

03 / Systems

The systems behind the results.

What I bring
in-house

These are not thought experiments. They were built inside global brands, creator commerce, and agency environments where teams, approvals, and revenue all had to work in the real world.

Framework

Creator Darwinism OS

Proprietary · Enterprise Scale

The proprietary system I encode into creator programs at enterprise scale. It harvests, scores, and briefs creator talent, then runs market simulations to predict outcomes before the spend. Twenty years of operator instinct, made repeatable.

Method

Employee-Generated Content

Proven · $100M+ Brands

A method I've proven with $100M+ brands: turn payroll into a CAC-benchmarked creator network. The biggest underused asset on the P&L is already on the org chart.

Studio

HAUS OF SÔS

Co-founded · Luxury Creative

The luxury creative studio I co-founded, and the team behind the Clé de Peau × Martha Stewart campaign. Brand worlds for the houses that set the standard.

04 / Stage

Trusted to shape the conversation.

Keynotes, juries, and industry recognition that reflect both market credibility and category influence as creator strategy becomes a core business function.

Cannes Lions Keynote Speaker2023 · 2025
D&AD Jury PresidentJury ↗
Cannes Lions JurorJury
Clio Awards JurorJury
AdAge Leading WomanHonor
12× Award WinnerGlobal ↗
Professor, Creator LabOne Creator Club
The Frameworks I Authored
Creator DarwinismIn the attention economy, owned trust compounds and rented trust decays. A lens for building systems that protect and grow the former.
The CCO ThesisWhy creators and cultural operators belong in the C-suite, not just the campaign budget, when brands restructure for modern growth.
The Cultural JetstreamHow to read where culture is moving before the reporting language catches up, so strategy lands in the right moment instead of just after it.
Translation ArmorThe operating principle that keeps strong, strategic ideas from being flattened in the review process.
05 / Press

Third-party validation.

Features, talks, and podcasts that track how my thinking shows up across creator strategy, content systems, and modern brand building.

7 features · 4 talks · 3 podcasts
Cannes LionsTikTok for BusinessMuse by ClioDigidayCampaignBrand Innovators
06 / About

I build the bridge between creator instinct and enterprise execution.

Dallas · NY · LA
Ashley Rudder presenting a growth chart

My career has never followed a traditional path. It has been stacked, layered, and built through reinvention.

I started in the field as a celebrity makeup artist, working at the edge of culture long before most institutions knew how to value that proximity. At M·A·C Cosmetics, I wrote my own job description, moved from the field into corporate, and helped turn social into an enterprise-level growth engine, building a global creative framework across 30+ countries, scaling the brand to 13M+ followers, and proving that creator-led thinking could drive business outcomes without paid media doing the heavy lifting.

That chapter became the foundation for everything that followed. At Whalar, I pressure-tested the thesis beyond beauty, building creator systems for major global brands as Head of Creators and later becoming the company's first Chief Creator Officer. At Deutsch New York, I became the first Chief Creator Officer in traditional advertising, building SociStudio to integrate brand, media, and content as a single operating system.

Running parallel to all of that was HAUS OF SÔS, the family agency I co-founded with my husband, Captain Jack Rudder, and our daughter, Coco Rudder. What started with me shooting PR packages for celebrity clients in hotel rooms evolved into a modern creative ecosystem. One that helped produce Thirst Trap 101 for Clé de Peau Beauté × Martha Stewart, generating 3B+ impressions, outperforming TikTok benchmarks by 222%, and winning 12 international awards.

In 2025, life interrupted the momentum. My mother was diagnosed with Stage 3 sarcoma, and I left New York to become her caregiver in Dallas. What looked like a forced pause became an AI sabbatical. And ultimately the moment I stopped asking how to build more value for other companies and started building more equity for my own.

That season led to Creator Darwinism OS, a proprietary system designed around creator intelligence, earned growth, and knowledge monetization. It also sharpened what has been true all along: I am most useful where culture, systems, storytelling, and business transformation intersect.

"She took that glimmer and transformed it into a beacon of leadership."

Matthew Parr · SVP Global Creative Director, Estée Lauder Companies
I don't just build campaigns. I build the conditions that make meaningful growth more repeatable.
A Standing Invitation · 2026.Q2

Start with the business problem.

Most conversations with me start one of two ways. You're hiring an executive to lead brand, content, and creator strategy. Or you want the system that makes that work smarter, faster, and more valuable. Both begin with thirty minutes.