Mohamed Hammady started his advertising career at Leo Burnett in 2005. He moved there after graduating from the American University in Cairo as a political science graduate. He was hired as a Copywriter to work on Melody TV Channel, Mobinil (Orange), P&G and Hienz.
After five years, he moved to FP7 Cairo/McCANN to work as an Associate Creative Director on Coca Cola Co, McDonalds.
He spent almost a year at FP7 Cairo before joining JWT Cairo to work on Vodafone, Nestle, DANONE, Mondelez and Egyptian Tourism Ministry (ETA). Between his 6 years at JWT he went as Partner to KTP for few months working on Etisalat, Al Ahram Beverage. He became the Creative Director of JWT Cairo office in 2012, and the Executive Creative Director in Jan 2015. JWT Cairo took agency of the year by Campaign Middle East in 2015. In 2016 he partnered with WPP in founding GLU, a new agency that provides creative content and intellectual property ownership in the Middle East in which he likes to call it “Advertainment”. In July 2020 he Co- Founded Ghost Ads , a creative “one stop shop ” agency that is digitally driven to meet what clients need in such competitive and challenging era.
Along the way, Hammady has picked up 3 Cannes Lions (2 Silvers and 1 Bronze) a graphite D&AD Penci in Design ,in addition to One Grand Prix, 11 Golds with some Silvers and Bronze at Dubai Lynx. Adding to this he collected two Golds and a Silver at Epica, two silvers in New York Film awards and a silver in both Global Effies and London Advertising Festival awards. And gold and silver in Effies MEA. During his leadership at JWT :
J. Walter Thompson Cairo was name by Campaign ME agency “Agency of the Year” in 2015.
J. Walter Thompson was named “The Network of The Year” at Dubai Lynx 2015.