We cultivate the world's most unconventional minds!
Meet the people who help to become, who you are meant to be:

Sabine Georg

CEO, Miami Ad School Europe
About me
  • 14 Years Manager at Google Germany
  • Pioneer in Digital Transformation & New Media
  • Studies in Fine Arts
  • Creative Consultant for leading ad agencies and brands
  • Google Innovation Class Teacher Miami Ad School Hamburg
  • Design Thinking Trainer
  • Certified Personal Coach
  • Innovation Award Winner @ Google (for the very first creative competition on YouTube)
About me
  • 15 years as international, awarded Creative Director & Head of Design for R/GA NY, Razorfish Australia, Jung von Matt Germany
  • Studies in Communication Design & Marketing with honor
  • Winner of several intern. industry Awards like Cannes Lions Festivals, SXSW Innovation Award, MTV O-Music Awards, etc.
  • Miami Ad School NY, Sydney + Europe board-member & teacher
  • Pioneer for Innovation in Education 
  • Thought-Leader in the field of Digital Transformation
  • Co-Founder of Women in Technology, Australia

Ina Behrendt

CIO, Miami Ad School Europe

 The Team 

CO-FOUNDER, ADVISOR

Niklas Frings-Rupp

 TECH  ADVISOR

Philip Wogart

OFFICE MANAGER 

Peter Wurm

OFFICE MANAGER

Therese
Heyde-Lundemo

AGENCY LAB PLACEMENTS 

Alisha McPherson

PLACEMENTS,   ACCOUNTING 

Heide Meyer

We are located at
Factory Berlin 

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Since 2021, the school is located in Factory Berlin near Görlitzer Park. Right in the creative heart of Berlin, we are providing the environment it needs to learn and grow in a lively,  international community for technology and creativity.
The right place to cultivate unconventional minds!

Factory Berlin is an ecosystem of over 3,500 members from more than 70 nations located on two campuses. Gathering the most ambitious creators from the tech, creative and corporate industries, we curate our diverse community to connect, collaborate and thrive together. As a platform for active networking and  supported by partners like Riverside Studios Berlin, Google for Startups or CODE University, the Factory Berlin culture empowers creators to build a better world.

The Roots

Miami Ad School was founded by Ron and Pippa Seichrist in 1993 in Miami Beach Florida. With school branches in San Francisco, New York, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Mumbai and Sydney.
  • In 2003 the school was founded in Hamburg, Germany as Miami Ad School Europe by advertising veterans Oliver Voss & Niklas Frings-Rupp.
  • By 2009 they had opened a second school in Berlin and remained Executive Directors until mid-2019.
  • In 2019, Sabine Georg, former Google Manager came onboard as Managing Director.

The Mentors

They’ll teach you everything they know – up to date and award-winning!

We are lucky to work with the best Creative Professionals who are teaching our students with a lot of passion and expertise.
Please meet some of our wonderful mentors, past and present :

Sanj Surati

Multi disciplined Digital Creative

Patricia Nassauer
Client Service Direcctor

Lennert Robert Schrader
Head of 3D Motion Graphichs & Developer

Yigit Unan
Senior Copywriter, Plantage Berlin

Selena Merletti
Senior Strategist

Sophia Görner
European Strategy Director

David Stadtmüller
Creative Director Art

Anna Nowak-Otto
Strategy Director

Klaus Bender
Creative Director Copy

Simon Weyer
Senior Creative Copywriter

Till Markull
Motion Designer

Alex Turtschan
Director Innovation

Daniel Schnatterer
Art Director & Brand Designer

Sandra Valencia
Senior Copywriter

Dr. Stefanie Dänzler
Lehrbeauftrage Marketing, Consumer Behavior & Disruptive Technology

Mircea Andronescu
Creative Director & Marketing Director

Gudrun Pawelke
Creative Strategist

Savina Mokreva-Hibbeler
Creative Director Art

Ilko Hoepping
Media Producer and Art Director Digital

Patrik Hartmann
Creative Director Art

Shelley Lui
Creative Director Art

Roman Raacke
People & Conceptual Photographer

Gepa Hinrichsen
Creative Director Copy & Author

Marc Vosshall
Chief Creative Officer

Gerrit Gley
Chief Creative Officer

Christoph Maeschig
Managing Director Creative Technology

Bettina Olf

Chief Creative Officer

Arne Hollmann
Creative Technology Director

Nikolai Bockholt
Creative Services Engineer

Sergey Sidorov
Head of Design

Eduardo Balestra
Senior Copy Writer

Miami Ad School is the 2022 School of the Year at Cannes Future Lions

Future Lions is AKQA’s annual initiative to celebrate bold and progressive ideas from students around the world. Each year, there are more than 1,900 participants from 69 countries.
This year, in recognition of our leading student teams and the work they submitted, M.AD was named School of the Year for the 6th time.

Our extended Network

We have many wonderful Partners doing amazing things…
We host, collaborate and send our students to some of the most prestigious programs in Advertising, Marketing and Digital Technologies. Check out the Innovation Days, VIP Talks, Facebook e-learning, International Hackathons, Google Classes and more…our international network from leading brands and agencies helps our students to achieve their potential and provides a superb ecosystem for creative innovations!