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Strategy + Design Strategy + Brand Strategy + Innovation Strategy + Emotion Strategy + Reality Strategy + Execution Design + Strategy Design + Research Design + Insights Design + Logic Design + Impact Design + Innovation You. Us. You. Us. You. Us. Combined.

Kapono Chung

Partner

Putri Trisulo

Group Director

Erick Sanchez

Designer

DJ Shiflet

Senior Designer

Brennan McGrath

Partner

Nadia Lung

Senior Designer

Marinique Mora

Designer

Erica Chung

Senior Designer

Greg Matson

Partner

Phil Graham

Partner

Angelica del Rocio Dios Jaramillo

Project Manager

Matt Schwartz

New Business + Marketing

Selena Ching

Senior Strategist

Mo Balatero

Project Manager

Fernanda Flores

Strategy Director

Noelle de la Paz

Writer

Peyton Littlejohn

Project Manager

Sean Keonte

Designer

Marina Yu

Designer

Cameron Gipson

Researcher

Jack Downs

Strategist

Caroline Alkadi

Project Manager

Brendan Chareoncharutkun

Strategist

Combo is an industry-leading Strategy + Design company offering full-service research, branding, creative, and innovation capabilities. Drawing from decades of experience we keep things solution-centered, emotionally resonant, and market-ready.

Research Practice

Combo’s full-stack research capability allows us to develop research designs and methodologies globally and locally in service to questions and truths we seek to uncover. Research can be conducted independently or as the first step in a branding or innovation process.
Strategy Practice

Our strategy teams specialize in identifying and anticipating consumer wants and needs, unlocking value in brands, products and businesses. Through a robust set of tools and processes, Combo strategists interrogate markets, define audiences and create business models and brand frameworks that provide clients’ unique advantages. All Combo strategies are built to be executed, often by us.
Innovation Practice

By analyzing human conditions, raw data, business opportunities and cultural trends, Combo's strategists and designers work to understand the future and design for it. In close collaboration with our clients we work to invent, develop, and implement new products, processes and services across diverse categories and audiences. Our approach to innovation blends insights with culture to add a layer of emotion to utility.
Branding Practice

Combo strategists and designers work together to identify, define and articulate a brand’s core truths, differences and opportunities in sync with its business ambition and market opportunities. Our ability to unlock the mutual benefit between a brand and the audience it serves also helps ensure we create brands that resonate. Combo’s branding practice extends from research and insight development to activation concepting and production of core brand assets and experiences.