Pablo Izquierdo

Pablo Izquierdo is a founding Senior Partner of Elevación and is the agency’s Vice-President in charge of Client Services. Over the past several years, Pablo has served as Elevación’s principal account executive for several of Elevación’s largest clients including CBP’s Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative and Land Border Integration campaigns. In this capacity he was Elevación’s day-to-day liaison with CBP’s project managers, attending meetings, submitting the required reports and working closely with CBP personnel from the development of the original strategic communications plans to coordinating the design, development and approval process of all communications initiatives.

Pablo offers over 25 years experience in advertising working on many memorable campaigns targeting the Hispanic community including the national roll out of Poison Help; the launch of “La Onda Verde” environmental initiative; Inter-American Development Bank’s “Llama y Vive” (Call and Live) Anti-Human Trafficking effort in a dozen Latin American countries; the Department of Health and Human Services multi-year campaign for the Center for Substance Abuse and Treatment; and CBP/Office of Border Patrol’s international communications campaigns for the Border Safety Initiative, including “No Mas Cruces en la Frontera,” “No Te Engañes” as well as the “Así No” campaign.

Prior to co-founding Elevación he had a successful career as producer in the news media, including tenures at C-SPAN, Univision and independent production houses. He won an independent film Rosebud Award for a documentary short about the 1990’s DC riots.

Pablo has served on many professional boards, including serving as D.C. Chapter President of the Hispanic Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, and Vice President of the DC Ad Club. Pablo holds an M.A. in Communications from American University and a B.A. in Advertising from the University of Madrid in Spain.