About
We’re a full-service marketing communications firm. That means you’ll find design, media, interactive, video, PR and more – plus some general, everyday nonsense – all in one place.
Welcome Tana
Tana Heer joins us as a human resources director. Before joining PHG, she was senior manager for people operations at Bonterra and Network for Good in Washington, D.C. She also gained experience in recruiting and administration at organizations in New York City and Indianapolis. She has a master's degree in human resources from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from The University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Welcome Miranda
Miranda Hagen joins PHG as a junior art director. She has a master’s degree in graphic design from the Florence Institute of Design International in Italy and a bachelor’s degree in visual communication design from Nazareth College.
Welcome Sam
Sam Merlin joins us as a motion graphics designer. Prior to PHG, Sam worked as a videographer and video editor at 1A Auto Parts in Pepperell, Massachusetts. He also gained experience as the chief editor for Medfield TV in Medfield, Massachusetts, and as a freelance videographer.
Doug Pinckney
Doug knows what it's like to be a client because he's been one. Prior to co-founding Pinckney Hugo Group, he spent nearly two decades in senior marketing positions that took him all over the world. This has given him a unique perspective that allows him to be uncommonly effective in solving marketing challenges. Also, he's pretty good at the golf thing.
Chris Pinckney
Chris likes to create great work that works. He oversees PHG's award-winning team of creatives in making sure everything our agency does is not only amazing—but effective. Before PHG, Chris worked as a senior creative for agencies in New York and Connecticut. Before that, he carried cement.
Aaron Hugo
Aaron is our clients' secret weapon. He creates and executes strategies designed to make our clients happy and their competition miserable. With both agency and client-side marketing experience, Aaron has worked on everything from small startups to the biggest brands in the world. In short, he makes things happen.
Our private courtyard makes a great spot for a meeting, lunch, and the occasional hotdog eating contest.
The employee bar and lounge offers a place to relax and get social— offline, that is.
It would take 63,069,600 of our conference room tables to reach from the Earth to the Moon. (It still wouldn't be long enough to handle some of our all-staff meetings.)
Being a Google Premier Partner means we can pretty much drop by their understated NYC digs anytime we want to.
Whether it’s making PHG a better place to work, learn and eat bagels—or helping out in our communities, we have plenty of ways for the team to get involved.
The team celebrated summer on a perfect night overlooking the city of Syracuse. We raised our glasses—and a few ping pong balls—15-stories high on the newly opened rooftop terrace on the Barclay Damon building.
In 2016, Michela Hugo discovered an unmet need in our community. As a result, we worked with her to start the CNY Diaper Bank. We are deeply committed to this cause, and so far we’ve been able to distribute over five million diapers to local families in need. Yup. Five million.
The only thing better than cheering for a 20th anniversary? Cheering for 20 more years of creativity. #PHGTurns20
Today, we celebrate our 20th anniversary. Tomorrow, we sleep in. #PHGTurns20
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Our week wrapped up Friday night with a party that was 20 years in the making. It did not disappoint. Such a great event with an amazing team! #PHGTurns20
Sep 21
Our week wrapped up Friday night with a party that was 20 years in the making. It did not disappoint. Such a great event with an amazing team! #PHGTurns20 ...
Finishing off Spirit Week with a bang! We had a great all staff meeting, got our own PHG 20th anniversary beers, and stayed until 7pm watching old PHG videos. Somewhere in there work also got done. We think. #PHGTurns20
Sep 16
Finishing off Spirit Week with a bang! We had a great all staff meeting, got our own PHG 20th anniversary beers, and stayed until 7pm watching old PHG videos. Somewhere in there work also got done. We think. #PHGTurns20 ...