EVP, Global Dir, Design
Team Detroit
Michele Silvestri is the design evangelist and visual language guardian at WPP’s Team Detroit, a fully integrated, 1,100-person, communications agency. Her role is to cultivate strategic design thinking and beautiful, crafted communications for all of their clients’ brands, including Ford, where her duties take on a global scale, collaborating with partner offices in Shanghai, London, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo and Toronto. Under her leadership, Ford established its first ever Global Look + Style, aligning a visual framework for all communications worldwide. Not an easy feat. Prior to Team Detroit, Silvestri has led design thinking at JWT, FCB, Bozell, and Perich for a variety of Automotive and Non-Automotive Brands. Silvestri has been recognized by the EFFIEs, CA, AIGA, GDUSA, TDC, DDF, The D Show and the Urban Green Council and served on the AIGA Detroit Executive Board. She was also recently named one of Graphic Design USA’s “2013 People to Watch”.