Our Stories

Jenna Castillo

Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder

CREATOR

Jenna is a unique, award-winning design professional who has forged a reputation of maturing company brands with bold, remarkable strokes – from projecting big-league images for young SaaS startups to nurturing the most iconic brands.

She stands out from other design professionals in multiple ways. Most notably, she understands corporate growth plans, business goals, and ICPs. Acquiring this acumen is part of her design methodology to help companies mature brand identities that they can grow into, not away from, over time. Her style is vivid, fearless, and powerful. Her work is inspiring. Jenna regularly receives compliments from clients calling her the best content creator they have ever seen.

Before co-founding NextBound, Jenna served as Director of Corporate Marketing and Creative Services for Onit, where she orchestrated a comprehensive brand consolidation involving several acquisitions. Previously, Jenna spearheaded a comprehensive rebrand for Behavox, a security and compliance company, transforming its image from a grass-roots startup to a premium-branded enterprise. As Creative Director at Apttus, she overhauled the SaaS unicorn’s brand image from a scrappy startup to mature enterprise selling large ACV deals to the Fortune 500.

Prior to her inhouse career, Jenna excelled as a lead designer at 1185 Design, a digital brand agency in Silicon Valley. She worked with entrenched and emerging brands in various industries. Aside from some of the world’s top brands everyone knows but can’t be publicized, clients included Bank of the West, Stanford Health Care, Stanford Hospital, Stanford Medical, Centrify, Flextronics, Zscaler, Netskope, and Udacity.

Jenna brings this experience to NextBound, which she co-founded due in large part to her belief that too many agencies fall short of conceiving design concepts with actual understanding of the businesses they promote. She is a liberal artist and a business woman combined. She continually pushes boundaries of what is possible, living the very ethos the firm was founded on – boundless, limitless, and unbridled creativity applied to branding, design, and marketing.

TOUCHDOWN TRAVELER

Jenna has been a spectator at 5 Super Bowls, cheering from the stands and soaking in the electric atmosphere.

Storybook dreamer

Currently, Jenna is channeling her creativity into writing a children’s book, hoping to inspire the next generation with imaginative tales.

SUDSY SCULPTOR

Beyond the boardroom and design studio, Jenna has a passion for crafting homemade soaps, blending her artistic sensibilities with everyday luxury.

Are you ready to be

Boundless?

If you understand the value of harmonizing your brand, marketing, and communications, and if you believe in being boundless in ideation, creativity, and strategy, then we need to talk. We innovate the art and possibility of marketing to help our clients stand out in crowded marketplaces. We are not bound to the status quo. We are bound to what’s next. If you genuinely share this ambitious spirit, connect with us now. Your marketing deserves it.