Big Red Oak didn't start as an agency. It started with video.

As Director of Operations, Lisa provides strategic and operational leadership across Big Red Oak. She works across creative, account, and production teams to improve how the business plans, prioritizes, and delivers complex work, balancing client needs, team capacity, timelines, and business objectives.

With more than 15 years of agency experience across Canada, the U.K., and the United Arab Emirates, including eight years as a Senior Account Manager in Dubai, Lisa brings a broad understanding of client relationships, creative delivery, and business operations. She bridges the creative team and clients, turning challenges into practical solutions, and creating the structure that enables teams to do their best work.

Focus areas

• Operations
• Project management
• Resource planning
• Client delivery

Alistair is Big Red Oak's Creative Director, leading multidisciplinary teams across video, design, animation, and social content. He joined the firm after graduating from Toronto Film School, became a full-time member of the team in 2018, and has grown from hands-on production into leading creative strategy and execution across the agency. He specializes in turning complex, technical subject matter into clear, engaging creative for Canada's nuclear and clean energy sectors, and produced and directed the Westinghouse 100 Years commercial, which aired during CBC's coverage of the 2026 Olympic Games.

Focus areas

• Creative direction
• Video production
• Live event capture
• Post-production

Stephanie joined Big Red Oak in 2026 as Senior Account Lead, serving as the day-to-day lead for client accounts and coordinating the team behind them. She brings more than 15 years of marketing, partnership, and account leadership experience, including senior brand and communications roles at Scene+, where she led national integrated campaigns and managed relationships with partners such as Scotiabank, Sobeys, Cineplex, and Home Hardware, and earlier corporate sales roles at Porter Airlines. She is known for building trust with senior stakeholders and turning business goals into plans that deliver.

Focus areas

• Account leadership
• Integrated campaigns
• Partner and stakeholder management

Tom is a Senior Creative Lead at Big Red Oak, producing and leading creative on the firm's video work, including the monthly safety video series it produces for Bruce Power.

Focus areas

• Video production
• Creative direction

Kirby Kruger is a Senior Creative Lead with 14+ years of experience leading cross-functional creative teams across production, post-production, design, animation, content, and digital disciplines. She has delivered (some award-winning) campaigns for brands including Netflix, Red Bull, VICE, Liberty, ASICS, and Distell. She works by combining creative thinking with operational excellence. She loves problem-solving and working with teams, and says she doesn't bill extra for also being very funny.

Focus areas

• Video production
• Concept
• Storytelling

Christie joined Big Red Oak in 2025 and leads business development, running the firm's outbound sales system and building relationships with prospective clients. Before Big Red Oak, she spent more than three years in sales, helping clients identify the right solutions to their problems while building strong, long-lasting relationships. She also coordinates guest outreach for Clean Currents: The Brief, the firm's interview series with nuclear energy leaders.

Focus areas

• Business development
• Sales pipeline
• Client outreach

Marilyn has been Big Red Oak's writer since 2015, crafting scripts, blogs, social content, and proposals, editing client and company materials, and keeping the firm's administration running smoothly. Her background spans editorial positions with Collins Publishers and Penguin Books Canada, freelance writing for magazines, and management roles in not-for-profit community organizations, giving her a researcher's eye for the story behind the facts.

Focus areas

• Scriptwriting
• Editing
• Proposals
• Research

As Finance Lead, Azwa looks after Big Red Oak's accounting, financial reporting, and budgeting. She joined the firm in December 2023, bringing previous experience as a Senior Finance Specialist and Finance and Accounts Controller, and holds an MSc in Finance and Investment Banking from the University of Hertfordshire.

Focus areas

• Financial reporting
• Accounting
• Budgeting

Fernanda joined Big Red Oak in 2026 as Project Lead. She comes to project management from a background in science, having coordinated multinational clinical trials before moving into creative work. She runs several projects at once and works closely with the creative team to coordinate every phase of a project, maintaining schedules and deliverables, and resolving issues before they become delays.

Focus areas

• Project management
• Production coordination
• Workflow and approvals

Vaishnavi joined Big Red Oak in 2026 as Marketing Lead, leading the firm's own marketing and working closely with business development. She brings more than six years of marketing and communications experience across content strategy, LinkedIn and social campaigns, and B2B storytelling, including roles as a Senior Marketing and Communications Specialist in Canadian financial services.

Focus areas

• Content strategy
• Social and LinkedIn campaigns
• B2B marketing