David de Bruijn

David de Bruijn is an Amsterdam-based Creative Director at WINK Creative Experiential Agency. With over 15 years of experience specialising in strategic experience design and creative executions for a range of international brands and clients, de Bruijn is a wave-making ocean of ideas using a trident of grit, creativity, and insight to see them through to the other side – with international acclaim for placing 1st in the Talisker Atlantic Challenge: the toughest rowing race in the world.

A mentor to WINK's team of junior creatives, David has informal experience in assessing creative works in experience-focused disciplines at multiple award shows, and has won multiple awards such as Ex Awards, BEA World and Eventex Awards. In addition, he regularly provides lectures and talks on his experiences as a Creative Director and rowing across the Atlantic.