About

Chris Hanrahan is an Associate Creative Director at Grey New York, where he writes ads for Canon, Volvo, Häagan-Dazs, Nestle, 3M, Ally Financial and more.

While 16 and at his first casual job, he accidentally sold an old lady a dishwasher instead of the washing machine she was expecting. However, since then his advertising career has improved markedly. Chris began his career at OBM Advertising in Melbourne, before moving to BWM, at the time the largest independent agency in Australia, where he worked on Kmart, John West, realestate.com.au, Victorian Racing Club and many more. He then moved to DDB Melbourne, where he worked across brands including Devondale, Westpac, Telstra, Porsche, British Paints and Don Smallgoods, receiving numerous awards from Cannes and AWARD, including Best TV Campaign of the Year.

Career highlights include winning a Silver Lion in the 2015 Cannes Young Lions Film Competition, in which he represented Australia against 50 other countries from around the world, and partnering with Google to write dialogue for the Google Home device. Most recently, he helped discover a rare biofluorescent Hawksbill turtle in the Solomon Islands, using Canon low-light technology.

Give him a call, he loves to chat.

When he was 15, Chris sold an old lady a dishwasher after mistaking it for a washing machine.
Since then, however, his advertising career has substantially improved.
With almost 20 years experience, Chris is now an award-winning creative director based in NY.
Clients include Apple, McDonald’s, Facebook, Google, Samsung, Peloton, Volvo, Canon, Chase, Kraft, FedEx, JetBlue, Netflix and many, many more.

Since 2020, he’s freelanced at the Martin Agency, Adam&EveDDB, BBDO, VCCP, Anomaly, Oglivy, AKQA and Smuggler. Before freelance, he was at Droga5 and GreyNY (both ranked world’s #1 agency during his tenure) and DDB, BWM and OBM in Australia.

Besides over 60 major awards, including a Cannes Film Grand Prix, Chris was also awarded a horrendous case of dengue fever while filming biofluorescent turtles in the Solomon Islands.

Outside of advertising, Chris has completed screenwriting courses at both Sundance and the New York Film Academy. Recently, Netflix had him apply his comedic writing talent on Eddie Murphy’s Beverly Hills Cop 4, which smashed streaming records.

Just don’t ask him to sell you a washing machine.
Say g’day
chrishanrahan87@gmail.com