Who we are.
We are brand & communication experts with a strategic mindset and a passion for good creation. We have decades of experience in brand strategy & brand communication as well as the management of national and international campaigns from TV to POS, from online video to engagement ads. Primarily for national and international FMCG brands, but also for brands from the travel industry, health, beauty and services.
We love what we do.
We are
And
reliable.
The management team of Saint Brand.
André Klein
Managing Director
André is a brand expert with 30 years of experience in creation and strategy. Before founding Saint Brand, he worked at Scholz & Friends for 15 years – 8 of them as Managing Director with creative and consulting management responsibility for FMCG and tourism clients. He also worked for BBDO, McCann and Publicis before founding Saint Brand together with Cornelia in 2018.
In his career, he has won over 50 creative awards – from ADC to Cannes. As a former advisory board member and jury chairman of the Travel Industry Club’s “Best Travel Brand Awards”, he played a key role in shaping this award for five years. In his free time, he loves to be out in nature with his dogs. He loves the mountains and the annual “hunt” for porcini mushrooms and chanterelles.
Strong concept.
Empathic.
Curious.
Binding.
Visionary.
Humorous.
Cornelia Wagner
Managing Director
Cornelia is a creative brand strategist and strategic thinker. After studying social and business communication in Berlin, she started working as a copywriter at Scholz & Friends Hamburg in 1999 – and stayed there for the next 7 years. After other positions, e.g. at Michael Conrad & Leo Burnett and Publicis, she returned to Scholz & Friends in 2010, this time as Executive Creative Director and Head of Family.
She has helped shape brands from A for Almette, AIDA Cruises & AOL Germany to Y for Yasashi organic tea and founded Brand together with André Saint in 2018. Cornelia is a passionate campaigner for female empowerment and a member of Digital Media Women. She loves culinary delights, mature Rieslings, photography, diving and traveling in general – as well as Iceland, the Maldives and Japan in particular. She has been blogging at www.seelenschmeichelei.de since 2013. Her first cookbook was published by Hoelker-Verlag in 2019.
Enthusiastic.
Digitally savvy.
Curious.
Strong implementation.
In love with detail.
Reliable.
Katja Weyland
Client Service Director
Katja is responsible for project management at Saint Brand and is the direct contact person for all customers. The business administration graduate began her career in consulting at Scholz & Friends in 2004. As Management Supervisor, she looked after clients from the FMCG, technology and tourism sectors.
She then switched to the corporate side and became Head of Marketing for the Robinson club brand at TUI AG in 2011. There she was responsible for national and international brand management, led a team of 15 employees and oversaw Robinson’s market entry in the UK and Scandinavia, for example.
With her experience, she penetrates structures and processes on the corporate side at lightning speed. Since 2018, Saint Brand’s customers have been benefiting from Katja’s skills and her easy-going manner. Katja has a daughter and is a family person through and through. She loves traveling and other cultures – but a walk in the woods with her dog is often enough to regenerate her.
Customer-oriented.
Reliable.
Strong in numbers.
Process-oriented.
Open minded.
Hands on.
Oliver Schmidt
Head of Design
Oliver is Creative Director and Head of Design at Saint Brand and has been on board since the agency was founded. He started his career in the design team at Scholz & Friends in Hamburg, where he quickly demonstrated his design skills.
He mainly worked for brands in the FMCG and tourism sectors. Due to the variety of projects – from packaging, corporate and literature design to communication design – he has developed into a multi-talented designer over the years. Saint Brand customers benefit from this particularly when it comes to the development of new brands. But no matter how big the task, Oliver tackles each one with great passion and meticulousness.
Born in Bremen, he studied communication design in his home town and then moved to Hamburg. He is now firmly rooted here. In addition to discovering beautiful places, he loves spending time with family and friends
Empathic.
Structured.Familiar.
What we believe in.
We believe in the
Magic
from brands.
We believe in the relevance of emotions and that a good idea touches hearts.
We believe that strategy and creation must be thought of as interlinked from the outset and not as separate silos. Effective communication that solves business challenges sustainably can only be achieved with implementation-oriented strategies.
We believe in trusting and long-term partnerships with our customers. And that all customers are equally important. The small ones as well as the big ones.
How we work.
(also with you!)
Agile.
We are a speedboat. And as such agile and fast. Both in thinking. As well as in processes & structures. At Saint Brand, customers always work directly with those responsible, always at eye level.
Precise.
If you want targeted answers, you have to ask precise questions. And that’s why every project starts with this. With precise questions. Although we love good briefings, we are also used to developing briefings together with customers in a workshop. So that we can then develop precise, targeted solutions.
Empathic.
Strategy needs empathy. We feel at home. In brands. In target groups. In products.
And not least in the people who run the brands. We listen before we come up with solutions. We develop strategies and campaigns that help our clients solve business challenges.
Thinking ahead.
Thinking along is good. Thinking ahead is better. And we can do this because everyone at Saint Brand has decades of experience. The advantage for our customers: Those who think ahead can create better solutions for the future of the brand.
How we work.
(also with you!)
Agile.
We are a speedboat. And as such, agile and fast. Both in thinking. As well as in processes & structures. At Saint Brand, customers always work directly with the people in charge. Always at eye level.
Precise.
If you want targeted answers, you have to ask precise questions. And that’s why every project starts with this. With precise questions. Although we love good briefings, we are also used to developing briefings together with customers in a workshop. So that we can then develop precise, targeted solutions.
Empathic.
Strategy needs empathy. We feel at home. In brands. In target groups. In products. And not least in the people who run the brands. We listen before we come up with solutions. We develop strategies and campaigns that help our clients solve business challenges.
Thinking ahead.
Thinking along is good. Thinking ahead is better. And we can do this because everyone at Saint Brand has decades of experience. The advantage for our customers: Those who think ahead can create better solutions for the future of the brand.
Saint Brand Ltd.
Hong Kong Street 7
20457 Hamburg
