André Sousa Moreira

Triplet, Portuguese, 2x Young Lion and Ad man at heart. When he was little, he always carried with him a big black garbage bag full of everything he found beautiful, like drawings and packages. So you can say creativity has been following him ever since.

André Sousa Moreira took his first steps in advertising in 2013 at Leo Burnett Lisbon. He went on to work as a brand designer at Brandia Central and later joined Lola/ Mullen Lowe Madrid as an Art Director, where he worked brands like Mattel Europe, Barbie, Scrabble, Pictionary and Cornetto. After six years in Spain, four of them at Y&R, he returned to Portugal to serve as Creative Supervisor & Art Director at Funnyhow, leading love brands such as Desperados, Guinness, Bial, Durex, Bandida do Pomar, Vans and so on. In 2020, André contributed to put Funnyhow on the map, being awarded in 2021 as the Nº1 Advertising Agency in Portugal by Portugal Creativity Club.

With a career in advertising spanning 10 years, André has worked for more than 70 brands and has more than 150 awards from international creative festivals like London International Awards, ADC*E Awards, El Ojo de Iberoamérica, El Sol de Iberoamérica, Portugal Creativity Club and 14 Cannes Lions, making him the most awarded person of his generation at Cannes. In 2022 was named the 10th Best Creative Director and the 12th Best Art Director in Portugal.

In 2023 open his independent advertising agency, Cooprativa® - an agency focused on cooperating with people, brands and agencies trough global and local insights for disruptive communication.