Jesse Stagg

Jesse Stagg (born New York 1970) is a creative director with deep roots in pop culture and a background in advertising, design, media arts, and experiential marketing. He lives in Los Angeles, California, where he consults and lectures on the intersection of technology, entertainment and design. He once attended the TED (conference) on a hacked pass.

Born in New York City, educated in London and Cape Town, he was raised in a commune in Surrey England. A third-generation Creative in the entertainment industry, he began his career at Ogilvy & Mather advertising in Cape Town, South Africa.

After leaving Ogilvy & Mather, Stagg founded UFO with partner Carl Mason, a collective focused on building large scale socially diverse events around music. In 1991 UFO created the influential dance club Club Eden, followed by a second club "Uforia". UFO's numerous events and venues helped lay the foundation for the emerging South African Electronica scene, and the indigenous forms of Techno known as Kwaito and played a part in the early social re-integration of the Post-Apartheid Rave Generation.

During the 90s Stagg produced and created events throughout South Africa and the United States. Beginning with the World Peace Party (1990), the first rave in Africa, and concluding with Leonardo DiCaprio's millennium party in 2000.

He returned to advertising and design in 1994 as senior art-director at Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network studios overseeing the launches of Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, Powerpuff Girls and others of the Emmy winning World Premiere Toons on Cartoon Network.

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