Ben Hennes
COO, Co-Owner
Happylucky

Ben Hennes is the CCO and co-owner, along with business partner Emily Stutzman, of the Happylucky. With an education in Graphic Design, Ben has spent the last 20 years as a designer, environmental designer, art director, creative director, and executive creative director, building and leading collaborative teams to create strategy-driven work that is not just seen and heard, but felt. Queer-identifying, much of Ben’s work is centered around inclusion of voices from the fringe—queers, punks, underdogs and the underrepresented—as critical to creating work that shifts culture in a positive direction. Ben leads teams to focus their work on creating collaboration between a brand’s purpose and their consumers, through work that drives emotional impact, and creates collective effervescence through IRL connection and shared experience.

As the creative leader of Happylucky, Ben has built and led multi-disciplinary teams specializing in brand strategy, global campaigns, retail and environments, branded experiences, events and community building. He has delivered work for global brands adidas, Stanley, Sorel, Reebok, On, Savage X Fenty, AllBirds, Zappos, Tillamook, Columbia, and more. He also contributes his leadership experience and talent by working with non-profit and community impact partners like Basic Rights Oregon, Taste for Equity, 1000 Friends of Oregon, Oregon Voting, Vote in Jail and more. In his downtime, Ben can be found daydreaming in the forests of the Pacific Northwest; being way too competitive on a tennis court with his partner, Sam; getting lost on a dance floor; or engaging in endless banter over an IPA.