CLIENT FOCUSED / DESIGN DRIVEN

Clancy Schaer partners with emerging growth and established brands to solve business challenges by developing strategically led creative solutions. We blend our design-principled craft with business acumen toward the goal of exceeding our clients’ expectations.

The firm’s principals, Tim Clancy and Mark Schaer, have been passionate about branding and interaction design since first working together beginning in 1997. In the 15 years since, Tim and Mark have honed their craft by working with iconic brands, renowned advertising and digital agencies, as well as branding and design firms. Immediately prior to founding Clancy Schaer, Tim Clancy was Director, General Management, for SapientNitro San Francisco, while Mark Schaer was Design Director at Salt Branding San Francisco.

CAPABILITIES

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE

FOUNDING PARTNERS

Tim Clancy

Tim is one of the founding partners at Clancy Schaer. He has over 15 years of senior-level marketing and account management experience spanning an array of industries and clients. While he considers himself a generalist, Tim has deep financial services expertise – having served as Vice President, Head of Marketing, for Deutsche Bank’s Technology Investment Banking Group, Director of Communications for Calera Capital, Client Partner at Razorfish (Visa, Union Bank, Wells Fargo, Experian Consumer Direct), and Director, General Management, at SapientNitro (Franklin Templeton Investments). He has also led B2B marketing initiatives for technology clients including NetApp, Sun Microsystems (Oracle), and Hyperion (Oracle) as Vice President, Head of Client Services for Gyro International.

Tim has a MBA from the University of San Diego and a BA from the University of Illinois. Tim and his wife Heather live in San Francisco.

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Mark Schaer

Mark is a multi-faceted designer with extensive experience in branding, print and digital media. He has had the privilege of working with clients, both iconic and emerging, as well as with many of the country’s most well respected creative studios and cultural institutions.

Prior to founding Clancy Schaer, Mark served as Design Director for Salt Branding, with clients including Microsoft, Milliken and Stanford University. As a consultant he has worked with clients including Apple, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Citi Performing Arts Center, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum, National Museum of American History, National Museum of the American Indian, National Rowing Foundation, Noguchi Museum, Smithsonian Institute, and Stanford University.

Previously, Mark was a Creative Director at Fluid, a digital agency focused on e-commerce, a Senior Creative Director at Razorfish, the Design Director for Deutsche Bank in San Francisco, and an Art Director at Young & Rubicam.

Prior to moving to San Francisco, Mark worked in New York as a designer for Condé Nast Publications. He was also an assistant to the designer Yolanda Cuomo and the photographer Richard Avedon.

Mark studied design with Milton Glaser at the School of Visual Arts, and graduated with honors from the Art Center College of Design.

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We’re always eager to meet with prospective clients, learn about new products and services or gain insights into existing ones, brainstorm ideas, and share our experience and perspective on how to best communicate and market your offering through the right channels.

We’d love to hear from you!

510.858.5242
info@clancyschaer.com