Vice President/Executive Producer
Suzanne Hargrove is the Vice President/Executive Producer of PRETTYBIRD. An Emmy Award-winning commercial veteran, Hargrove started her career in music videos before entering the advertising business. She quickly started producing high-end commercials, broadening the scope to include branded content, experiential, and new media projects. In 2024, Hargrove won Ad Age’s inaugural Creativity Award for Executive Producer of the Year.
Some of her award-winning spots include Nike’s “Unlimited Courage” (winner at Cannes Lion, AICP, D&AD, Kinsale Shark), the Webby-winning short film “House Comes With a Bird” for Miu Miu, the Cannes Lions-winning spot for Adidas “The Original Impossible” featuring the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the Shots-winning “Rise, Dead Man” for the video game The Callisto Protocol, and the D&AD-winning spot for GoPuff “Lil Dicky Quartertime Show,” which premiered online during the first and second quarters of 2022 Super Bowl.
She executive produced two Super Bowl spots in 2024, including the Jeremy Renner-led musical commercial for Silk and the weeks-long campaign for CeraVe, starring Michael Cera. The campaign, titled “Michael CeraVe,” was named the winner of the Super Clio and placed #1 on both Ad Age and Adweek’s Super Bowl recap lists. “Michael CeraVe” also won a Grand Prix at Cannes Lions, in addition to three Gold, three Silver, and three Bronze Lions.
While Hargrove remains rooted in advertising, she continues to extend her reach beyond traditional commercials, embracing non-traditional projects including Audi’s “Think Faster - The World’s Fastest AMA” campaign, where Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ conversations were live broadcast from the passenger seat of an Audi going 130 MPH. She developed and executive produced the podcast 'Dear Cousin' for Audible, which was released in the summer of 2024. Hargrove also serves on the AICP West Board of Directors.
