Rikesh Lal is an Executive Creative Director based in San Francisco, California.

Rikesh is an award-winning creative with over 15 years of agency experience. Jumping into advertising fresh out of art school, he’s worked at various agencies, from AKQA to DDB. His background in design and animation brings a unique perspective to brands.

Over the last few years Rikesh brought his expertise in building brands to help create an agency from the ground up. Serving as ECD and Partner at Camp+King, he’s helped grow the agency’s roster of brands and led the agency to four Ad Age Small Agency of the Year wins, numerous awards from CLIO to Cannes and built an agency culture that ended up on Outside Magazine’s 50 Best Places to Work. Rikesh is involved in all new business pitches and in running accounts which include Energizer, RE/MAX and Papa John’s. He also heads up The Coalition, an agency initiative dedicated to bringing more voices of color into the ad industry.