Ogilvy has been growing brands and businesses since 1948. We continue that rich legacy through borderless creativity—operating, innovating, and creating at the intersection of talent and capabilities. Our experts in Public Relations, Growth & Innovation, Advertising, Health, and Experience work fluidly across 131 offices in 93 countries.
Our Team
Roberta La Selva
Chief Executive Officer
Roberta, CEO of Ogilvy Italy since 2018. Previously, she gained extensive experience in some of the most important agencies in the WPP Group including Y&R (now VMLYR) and JWT (now WT). She then chose to further explore the world of digital and branded content by giving her own contribution to the growth of Condè Nast (as senior Vice President) and in the role of General Manager for Vice Italia where she managed, in particular, projects that connected big brands to the world of editorial storytelling for millennials.
After 4 years in publishing, she returned to the world of leading communication agencies and joined Ogilvy where she has found fertile ground to express her skills and to foster her passion for communication and innovation.
Roberta believes that sharing, good relationships and a healthy and stimulating environment are the key to good productive work. She has always focused on the human factor, a combination of talent and passion, to fuel the success of an agency.
Passionate about good food and good wine, she loves poetry which although easily forgotten, she says, leaves an indelible mark. She loves the countryside, animals and outdoor sports. She lives in Milan with her young family and a household of pets.
In Ogilvy she has found the place where she can best express her attitudes and her desire to continue growing, transforming, and overcoming important challenges.
Giuseppe Mastromatteo
President and Chief Creative Officer
After a period spent as a recordist assistant, in 1996, he graduated in art direction, successively working in both leading national and international advertising agencies. He first started in Young & Rubicam, later moving to D'Adda, Lorenzini, Vigorelli and subsequently since 2000, he worked in DDB, DLVBBDO and Armando Testa in Milan with the role of Creative Director. In 2009, he relocated to New York after being appointed as the Worldwide Creative Director for Jaguar and other luxury brands of the Havas group.
Two years later, he returned to Italy to become the Executive Creative Director of Ogilvy & Mather Advertising and in 2013, he became the Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy Italy. In his portfolio there are national and international awards, including Cannes Young Lions, Grand Prix at ADCI, New York Festivals, Epica, Cannes Lions, Clio and D&AD.
During his extensive career, he has written about art, taught advertising and collaborated with the Triennale Museum in Milan. Passionate about photography, in 2005, he took up a career as an artist. Today, his works are exhibited in contemporary art galleries in Milan, Paris, Istanbul and New York.
Marco Mapelli
Chief Financial Officer e Chief Operating Officer
Born in Milan on 1962 Marco’s career at Ogilvy began is 2006 as Chief Financial Officer at Ogilvy & Mather Itay. He begins his professional path on 1987, before achieving his degreee in Business Administration. Since 1992 he operates in the media sector, initially in an editorial company ad later in care of an advertising concessionaire , in a media center and finally in an advertising agency.During these years, he faces contexts in continuous evolution, management changes, fusion and acquisitions.Today his major responsibility is in support of the commerciale department concerning contract drafting.
In 2020 Marco assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer and in this role he was responsible for mergers, acquisitions and the financial support for all departments of the Ogilvy & Mather Italian group.
Passionate abouT Classic Music
He enjoys many sports including footbal, running and cycling.
Federica Snaidero
Managing Director & Business Development Director
With 10+ years of experience in the context of marketing and integrated communication at an international level, Federica has a dual role within the Ogilvy Group as Managing Director and Business Development Director.
In 2016 she joins Wpp in charge of the Group’s clients and special projects for all of the Italian Holding’s operating companies (around 60 legal entities) with particular attention to the coordination and management of all key interactions within the corporation and ongoing development of key internal and external partnerships and collaborations at local and international level. Since 2019 in Ogilvy Federica is leading management and coordination of all new business opportunities, in line with the agencies’ creative, cultural and business goals. She oversees all aspects of Ogilvy’s clients identifying barriers and best practises to push the business objectives forward.
Daniela Morone
General Manager and Go to Market Leader
Daniela has more than 30 years of experience leading and growing award winning global and local brands.
She began her career in a boutique agency in Milan, working on different accounts and industries in Finace, Telco&Tech, FMCG, Food&Beverage.
She then joined Ogilvy to lead global and local brands (American Express, Unicredit, IBM, Nestlé, Unilever, Wind Tre), and manage inter-agency teams across different disciplines.
She specializes in developing integrated, multi-market campaigns for global, regional and local clients.During her career, she has focused on developing an integrated working culture with multidisciplinary teams. In recent times, she has built out offers focusing on branding, digital and customer engagement and commerce.
Her greatest effort is to focus on driving client satisfaction and measurable business results.
She is the Business Leader of the Advertising Branded Content and Experience.
Ideas
Careers – Work With Us
As our founder David Ogilvy put it, we seek people who are bigger and smarter than ourselves. That’s how we create a company of giants. We’re always looking for modern marketing and brand experts with big hearts and enormous talent.
To work with us email us at recruitment@ogilvy.it
Get Involved
Community. Representation. Shared values.
Our Professional Networks represent a global community of individuals from all backgrounds committed to working together to shape Ogilvy's culture for the present and the future. They have been in operation in some form for over a decade, and their size, scope, and influence have only grown over time.
The Professional Networks are affinity-based groups enabling employees to actively participate and contribute in supporting our Diversity & Inclusion strategy. The networks provide an environment for professional development and networking along with a formal link to employees, allies and senior management.
As we believe in empowering our people, Ogilvy's Professional Networks are formed by employees.
They are centered around those with common interests—but regardless of who you are or where you come from, you will always belong at Ogilvy. To that end, our networks are open to all employees.
Each network is dedicated to developing programs to promote recruitment, retention, career development; cultivating informal mentorship through networking opportunities; fostering education and outreach opportunities; making a difference in the communities in which we operate; and providing advice and counsel to our business by acting as in-house focus groups and sounding boards.
Networks supporting LGBTQ+, cultural and ethnic diversity, administrative professionals, neurodiversity, and working parents are among the many active employee-driven groups.
Unlock New Doors
Nothing is more important than our people. We take our responsibility to them seriously, and a critical part of that responsibility is that we bring our values to life, every day to every employee.
Ogilvy is divinely discontent, committed to eternal craft, and relentlessly curious—to that end, we must give our people every possible opportunity to grow.
That includes taking on a new challenge in a new place.
Global Mobility is part of our promise to put our people first. We understand that many people join Ogilvy for career growth and opportunity.
Along the way, some employees may want to move into new crafts, enhance their current skills or explore new markets. We believe our employees deserve the chance to challenge themselves wherever those challenges may take them.
Thus, we are proud to offer our Global Mobility program.
The Global Mobility program gives every Ogilvy employee visibility and access to open Ogilvy job postings and roles across our entire global network. Every year, we move more than 100 employees into new positions in offices around the world.
We believe in one connected network that allows every person to explore their strengths and navigate their professional careers. Our Global Mobility program ensures that we offer our employees every possible avenue to grow as professionals and people.
Grow With Us
Ogilvy’s mission is to make brands matter. We believe the best way to do that is by fostering a community of inclusion made up of people from diverse backgrounds, where all contributions are valued, and where every employee has the chance to become their best creative and professional self.
Because our greatest asset is, has always been, and will always be our people.
Our founder, David Ogilvy, proudly described our creative network as the “teaching hospital”. He envisioned Ogilvy as a place where professionals not only do great work, but come in each day with the possibility to learn and the ability to practice and hone their craft.
Learning & Development plays an important role in creating this atmosphere.
Today, Ogilvy's global Learning & Development team continues to build on David's legacy by equipping our employees with all the tools they need to grow their careers and become even stronger, more well-rounded professionals.
In a world that not only requires new ideas but also new capabilities to bring those ideas to life, our training programs develop our people’s abilities to tackle the greatest challenges faced by our clients. We utilize our global resources to deliver blended learning that embodies our founder culture.
We offer a wide range of programs focused on deepening our employees' knowledge and enhancing their expertise, with courses and trainings focused on areas such as Digital Transformation, Leadership, Culture, Change Management, Growth, and New Ways of Working, among many others.
Who We Are
Ogilvy was founded in 1948 as one office. Today, we operate as a creative network in 132 locations across 83 countries. In the course of this growth, the world has become effectively unrecognizable from what it once was.
Ogilvy has been there every step of the way, shepherding the world’s most successful brands through the uncertainty and helping them adapt and stay relevant for the long-term.
We have never lost sight of our purpose in the world: we exist to make brands matter.
We have succeeded because, despite the massive shifts that have occurred over the years, we have always operated in the way David Ogilvy envisioned. He created a corporate culture that deeply respected and cared about its people and its clients. We honor his legacy by operating with that same commitment.
Our core values remain at the heart of everything we do. They are not a set of rules, but beliefs. They are our DNA.
They inform how we go about our daily lives that help set expectations of the kind of work we create, and the kind of people we hire.
We know that as long as we live our values, we will do great work. Our people will learn and grow, explore their interests and become the best versions of their personal and professional selves.
Our values have gotten us far, and they will take us ever further into the future. We live this as one force, indivisible.
We are: Pervasively Creative, Adaptively Connected, Relentlessly Curious, Divinely Discontented, Eternal Craftspeople.
We are Ogilvy.
Get Involved
Community. Representation. Shared values.
Our Professional Networks represent a global community of individuals from all backgrounds committed to working together to shape Ogilvy's culture for the present and the future. They have been in operation in some form for over a decade, and their size, scope, and influence have only grown over time.
The Professional Networks are affinity-based groups enabling employees to actively participate and contribute in supporting our Diversity & Inclusion strategy. The networks provide an environment for professional development and networking along with a formal link to employees, allies and senior management.
As we believe in empowering our people, Ogilvy's Professional Networks are formed by employees.
They are centered around those with common interests—but regardless of who you are or where you come from, you will always belong at Ogilvy. To that end, our networks are open to all employees.
Each network is dedicated to developing programs to promote recruitment, retention, career development; cultivating informal mentorship through networking opportunities; fostering education and outreach opportunities; making a difference in the communities in which we operate; and providing advice and counsel to our business by acting as in-house focus groups and sounding boards.
Networks supporting LGBTQ+, cultural and ethnic diversity, administrative professionals, neurodiversity, and working parents are among the many active employee-driven groups.
Unlock New Doors
Nothing is more important than our people. We take our responsibility to them seriously, and a critical part of that responsibility is that we bring our values to life, every day to every employee.
Ogilvy is divinely discontent, committed to eternal craft, and relentlessly curious—to that end, we must give our people every possible opportunity to grow.
That includes taking on a new challenge in a new place.
Global Mobility is part of our promise to put our people first. We understand that many people join Ogilvy for career growth and opportunity.
Along the way, some employees may want to move into new crafts, enhance their current skills or explore new markets. We believe our employees deserve the chance to challenge themselves wherever those challenges may take them.
Thus, we are proud to offer our Global Mobility program.
The Global Mobility program gives every Ogilvy employee visibility and access to open Ogilvy job postings and roles across our entire global network. Every year, we move more than 100 employees into new positions in offices around the world.
We believe in one connected network that allows every person to explore their strengths and navigate their professional careers. Our Global Mobility program ensures that we offer our employees every possible avenue to grow as professionals and people.
Grow With Us
Ogilvy’s mission is to make brands matter. We believe the best way to do that is by fostering a community of inclusion made up of people from diverse backgrounds, where all contributions are valued, and where every employee has the chance to become their best creative and professional self.
Because our greatest asset is, has always been, and will always be our people.
Our founder, David Ogilvy, proudly described our creative network as the “teaching hospital”. He envisioned Ogilvy as a place where professionals not only do great work, but come in each day with the possibility to learn and the ability to practice and hone their craft.
Learning & Development plays an important role in creating this atmosphere.
Today, Ogilvy's global Learning & Development team continues to build on David's legacy by equipping our employees with all the tools they need to grow their careers and become even stronger, more well-rounded professionals.
In a world that not only requires new ideas but also new capabilities to bring those ideas to life, our training programs develop our people’s abilities to tackle the greatest challenges faced by our clients. We utilize our global resources to deliver blended learning that embodies our founder culture.
We offer a wide range of programs focused on deepening our employees' knowledge and enhancing their expertise, with courses and trainings focused on areas such as Digital Transformation, Leadership, Culture, Change Management, Growth, and New Ways of Working, among many others.
Who We Are
Ogilvy was founded in 1948 as one office. Today, we operate as a creative network in 132 locations across 83 countries. In the course of this growth, the world has become effectively unrecognizable from what it once was.
Ogilvy has been there every step of the way, shepherding the world’s most successful brands through the uncertainty and helping them adapt and stay relevant for the long-term.
We have never lost sight of our purpose in the world: we exist to make brands matter.
We have succeeded because, despite the massive shifts that have occurred over the years, we have always operated in the way David Ogilvy envisioned. He created a corporate culture that deeply respected and cared about its people and its clients. We honor his legacy by operating with that same commitment.
Our core values remain at the heart of everything we do. They are not a set of rules, but beliefs. They are our DNA.
They inform how we go about our daily lives that help set expectations of the kind of work we create, and the kind of people we hire.
We know that as long as we live our values, we will do great work. Our people will learn and grow, explore their interests and become the best versions of their personal and professional selves.
Our values have gotten us far, and they will take us ever further into the future. We live this as one force, indivisible.
We are: Pervasively Creative, Adaptively Connected, Relentlessly Curious, Divinely Discontented, Eternal Craftspeople.
We are Ogilvy.