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Dynamic Duos: ‘I speak to Clint more than my husband’

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12.07.2025

In Dynamic Duos, Mumbrella each week asks two colleagues with a professional and personal affiliation to share with readers the importance of workplace relationships in an increasingly hybridised world of work.

Clint Bauer:

When Ryan and I met in 2009, I thought in binary, and he thought in pixels. Our first project together was redeveloping the OPSM website for Luxottica, which should have been your typical tech versus creative showdown. Instead, it became the foundation for something neither of us saw coming.

From day one, Ryan brought this incredible energy, enthusiasm and willingness to push boundaries. That readiness to think outside the box was what we had in common. His creative brilliance and my tech brain somehow forged this unique and genuinely unexpected connection. But what really set him apart was how quickly he grasped that creativity wasn’t just about beautiful imagery, TVCs and clever copy. He got that the architecture connecting systems, the code rendering webpages, and the data engineering driving customer experiences were all creative acts too. Together we achieved things people said were impossible, like developing a virtual try-on experience way back in 2009 when everyone else said, “You’re mad, that’ll never work!”

That early win set the tone for everything that followed: constantly pushing each other to deliver compelling, creatively brilliant and tech-enabled experiences. Not for the awards (although Ryan certainly enjoys the spotlight), but to create genuinely authentic customer experiences that set our clients apart.

Fast forward 16 years and we’ve evolved from two professionals with wildly different backgrounds into partners in crime who steer our agency with a shared vision. Sure, we still have challenging conversations, but they’re built on deep friendship, trust and mutual respect that somehow makes the impossible happen for our clients every single day.

Ryan’s passion for creative excellence comes from this perfect storm of emotional intelligence, pure love for his craft, and an almost supernatural understanding of what makes customers tick. We tackle challenges from completely different angles but always meet in the middle,........

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