Andrew Martineau (creative altruist) is an award-winning creative that delivers progressive marketing, advertising strategies and executions that benefit the client by ways of notoriety, innovation and profit.
With a 25+ year career in advertising, marketing and design he has had the pleasure of working for a host of local and multi-national advertising agencies, established companies and start-ups in industries ranging from upscale real estate and resorts to the shopping center industry.
He has a unique skill set that combines the experience of an award-winning creative director, designer, publicist, event planner and marketing director that intimately understands every aspect of the marketing mix and can create and execute effective marketing campaigns from concept through to completion.
After five years in the retail and shopping center industry he opened UniteUs Group - a holding company that manages a portfolio of entities created to solve various challenges facing the local and international market with companies including Zero Empty Spaces and Art Fort Lauderdale.
UniteUs Group finds creative solutions for our clients through an integrated offering of Services and Divisions that benefit them by ways of notoriety, innovation and profit. The agency has several divisions including UniteUs Retail (Disruption Retail), UniteUs Women (Fem Collective, FemAle Brew Fest), UniteUs Artists, UniteUs Community (Choose954, Greater Fort Lauderdale Art & Design Week, and Greater Fort Lauderdale Beer Week) and UniteUs LGBTQ+.
He is a keen observer of life and the role the media plays in shaping the lives, minds and choices of everyday people. The opportunity to study a person or group and create a message that elicits a reaction is what gets him up in the morning and what keeps him up at night. He has been fortunate over his 25+ year career to be able to nurture relationships with a number of individuals in various creative communities including; film, art, music, technology and fashion and those relationships influence his thought process and aid in his problem solving skills.
He is one of the most prolific creators of innovative advertising in this new media landscape and his creative expertise has garnered him numerous feature articles, multiple Addy, Mature Market Media, Florida Direct Marketing, NAHB and Prism awards. In fact, he has won an Addy award at some level each year that he has entered.
Over the last 4 years he has self-funded numerous initiatives created to support, grow and nurture the local arts community as he feels that the arts are integral to the health and vitality of the community in which he resides.
He has also done work for a plethora of charity organizations; including the American Diabetes Association, Broward Education Foundation, League Against Cancer, LifeNet4Families, Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and the Seafarer’s House, just to name a few.