André Archimbaud

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Founder & CEO

André Archimbaud is the Founder and CEO of Clearly Now Media, a New York-based media and marketing consultancy he launched in 2025 to help brands sharpen their digital advertising and event sponsorship strategy.

André's career spans nearly three decades of media. He started as a broadcast engineer and producer for The Christian Science Monitor's radio network, NPR, and CBS News, before moving into media sales in 2004. He spent twelve years as a senior account executive at ReachLocal, a division of the USA TODAY Network, and in 2017 co-founded Cara Entertainment Group, helping touring Irish musicians bring their acts to the United States. Clearly Now Media's name traces back to Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now," a touchstone song for André, released the day before he was born.

A graduate of Emerson College, André later served fifteen years as President of its NYC Alumni Chapter and sits on the founding board of MOSAIC. He's active with the Irish Business Organization and Digital Irish. While André was always aware of his mother's Sligo heritage, as an adult he uncovered Dublin roots too.

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You Are What Your Mother Is: Andre Archimbaud's Unlikely Irish Story

Andre Archimbaud spent his life carrying three passports worth of heritage: a French surname, an Italian-American upbringing, and, buried a generation or two back, an Irish line he didn't know existed until a chance conversation set him straight. This episode, recorded at Ryan's Daughter on the Upper East Side, traces how Archimbaud built an identity by choice rather than inheritance. It started years earlier at a bar in Washington Heights, where a stranger, several drinks in, turned to him a...