Benjamin Palmer serves as the CEO of The Barbarian Group, with over ten years of design experience in print, broadcast and interactive. Benjamin has come to be one of the most respected voices in the world of interactive and digital advertising. He was named one of Creativity Magazine’s 50 top creatives – one of the only ones from the digital world. He has served as interactive jury president for the 2007 Asia Pacific Ad Fest along with being on countless other award show committees.

Benjamin leads the creative group at The Barbarian Group, overseeing our creative strategy as well as digital execution. He is intimately involved with the creative output of the company, and has been since the company’s founding in 2001. In his capacity as CEO, Benjamin has lead The Barbarian Group to its position in the industry today – that of unparalleled creative quality and an uncanny ability to cut through the noise with consistently great and effective interactive communication.

Since co-founding the Barbarian Group, Benjamin has received acclaim worldwide for such projects as the Burger King Subservient Chicken site, which he thought up with Crispin, Porter & Bogusky. He has also helped create innovative interactive and motion video work for Volkswagen, Apple, Tecmo Inc., Ikea, Virgin Airlines and Marilyn Manson. For several years, Benjamin has been working in the video and film arena, both artistically and professionally. He has done motion video work for clients as well as artistically, showing his short films at festivals worldwide.

Prior to The Barbarian Group, Benjamin worked with such clients as Nestlé, Volkswagen, Footjoy, Olympus, Fleet, The Big Brother Association of America, TJ Maxx, Fidelity and Marshalls. Benjamin has also done extensive print work, having designed flyers for local nightclubs for over ten years, as well as several CD covers. In the broadcast realm, Benjamin has produced, shot and edited several short films, promotional trailers and installation videos. His video work has been shown at major clubs around Boston. Benjamin is also a video and sound designer, and attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for Physics and Chemical Engineering.