Jörg Riommi, Founder, CEO & CCO, AIN’T

Jörg Riommi is a creative leader and entrepreneur based in Milan, Italy.

Since 2024, he is the Founder, CEO and Chief Creative Officer of AIN’T, a new non-agency model delivering Ideas With Thunder for clients globally – just recognized as the Independent Agency of the Year at Golden Drum 2025.

Before founding AIN’T, he has been the Chief Creative Officer of Publicis Groupe Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), where he oversaw the creative output of the Groupe’s creative brand agencies across 14 markets, also being a member of Publicis, Saatchi&Saatchi and Leo Burnett’s Global Creative Councils (GPC).

Earlier, he has been part of Saatchi & Saatchi in Rome, S. Juan Puerto Rico, Bucharest, Frankfurt and Berlin, and a join creative for several network projects in Madrid, Amsterdam, Paris, Copenhagen, Geneve, Brussels, Milan, New York amongst others.

He was the CCO of Publicis Bucharest from 2014 to 2020, leading the agency to be CEE Agency of the year in 2016.

His work won more than 350 international awards including multiple Grand Prix and golds at all major advertising festivals in the world such as Cannes Lions, D&AD, The One Show, LIA, CLIO, The Andy’s, Eurobest, Golden Drum – featuring also Cannes Grand Prix and a D&AD Black Pencil.

In recent years, he was part of the team behind Burger King’s iconic Moldy Whopper global campaign that has been ranked #1 most awarded advertising campaign in the world by the WARC ranking 2021.

He’s a regular juror and speaker at major global advertising and media award shows and events, and a lifetime inductee of the Golden Drum’s Hall of Fame.