Mohammed Bahmishan is a Saudi award-winning adman, among the top ten of the MENA region in the One Club 2022 rankings, a jury member in Cannes Lions award festival 2022, Lynx awards festival speaker 2023, jury member in Effie’s awards Festival 2023, and Saudi Ad School mentor 2024.
Throughout the years, Bahmishan has been considered to be a driving force to push the wheel of creative communication further in the Saudi market, through writing about it (he is the first writer of the advertising section in the first Saudi design magazine in KSA: Design magazine, and Little black book magazine), and through special programs (he is the creator of the 1st YouTube show about advertising, named “Fasel e3lany”) and through his several talks and workshops in different forums, such as “the creative detox workshop” in Jeddah College of advertising, “I am not a me 2” talk in Jeddah Markathon during the NEXT forum in KAEC, “Impact of vision 2030 on communication and creativity” during Campaign Middle East magazine panel talk, and “Creativity in our region” during Cannes lions festival with SRMG panel talk), and lately in lynx award festival 2023 “what is next for advertising in KSA” and “how human capital will reimagine marketing in Saudi Arabia with ” at campaign Saudi briefing 2023, and finally the Saudi Effie’s effectiveness award show in Feb 2024.
During his 22 years of experience, he received coveted accolades and shortlists from the world’s most prestigious award shows for the first time for Saudi Arabia, including Cannes Lions, The One Show, Art Director’s Club, EPICA, CLIO, Dubai Lynx, AdFest, New York Festivals, Gerety, Effie’s, Caples, creasta, and Adstar.
In Nov 2022, Bahmishan moved from his role as a Group Chief Creative Officer KSA leading the creative product in both Leo Burnett and Saatchi & Saatchi, and moved to head FP7 McCann KSA as CEO and Chief Creative Officer.
Bahmishan is passionate about technology and innovation, dynamic digital communication and utilization of technology in storytelling. He is a painter, lyricist, director, Keynote speaker and a coach.
