Chie Masuyama Sharp is the Executive Creative Director of GIRVIN | Seattle. She has been working as a strategically focused designer and team leader at GIRVIN for more than a decade. The keys to her experience, in creative direction and project tactics, lie in her international awareness and expertise, having been involved in North American branding work as well as projects in Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea.

Her personal involvement has been in strategy, identity consulting, naming, typographic design systems, environmental applications, packaging, collateral and online applications - and is focused on a highly tuned sensitivity to business planning and visualizations. Her projects have been market specific or global. Her clients range from her involvement in the leadership of the Dentsu+GIRVIN Corporate Communications team | Tokyo, the Dai Nippon (DNP) | GIRVIN creative alliance, Hines, JELD-WEN, Microsoft, Paramount Studios, Procter & Gamble | Kobe, PRO Sports Club, Shiseido, Suntory, TV Asahi and Warner Brother Studios.

She holds a B.A. degree in Law from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, a Master's degree in educational leadership at Argosy University, as well as an AA degree in Visual Communications from the Art Institute in Seattle, where she is also an Instructor in Design. Chie is fluent in English and Japanese.

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