Erickson Ilog

Chief Financial Officer

Erickson Ilog has more than two decades of experience leading the Finance and Operations of several private and public companies. He started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers and has since grown into a finance and operations expert in the field of advertising, marketing, and media.

Erickson Ilog served as the first CFO and COO of an award-winning agency in Los Angeles, Zambezi. He also led the Germany-based WPP Creative Technology firm Iconmobile as its North America CFO. He spent nine years with UK-based M&C Saatchi as EVP, Director of Finance and Operations North America supporting the Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco operations. Prior to migrating to the United States, he also worked for IPG's McCann-Erickson in Manila, Philippines.

Currently, he is the Chief Financial Officer for a San Francisco-based Advertising and Media Company Customer Acquisition Group handling three of their subsidiaries, Feld Advertising, Feld Media, and their production arm, Graphite Films.

In the advertising industry, more often than not, recognitions are always given to the creatives and strategists, but Erickson believes that behind every successful organization are people who are strong pillars of support. Erickson has lead teams in finance, operations, and human resources. He is a big proponent of financial transparency to every member of the organization which is relatively nascent in the industry. With that being said, he is a strong believer in decentralizing the financial responsibility from the most senior management down to the most junior members of the team. He believes in shared financial responsibility and that setting a mindset of entrepreneurship should be promoted from the top down.

An immigrant of the Philippines, he is also a strong advocate of diversity, equity, and inclusion.