Kevin

Drew Davis Named Chief Creative Officer

DDB San Francisco
Former DDB Chicago ECD to Lead Bay Area Creative

Date

July 28, 2016

Location San Francisco, CA

DDB North America announced today that DDB Chicago Executive Creative Director Kevin Drew
Davis will assume the role of Chief Creative Officer of DDB San Francisco. Davis joined DDB in
2013 as CCO of DDB Canada, before being asked to take on the ECD role in Chicago in late 2014.
He will begin his transition from Chicago to San Francisco immediately, being completely
dedicated to San Francisco by the end of the year.

Todd Grantham, Chief Executive Officer of DDB San Francisco stated, Were thrilled to have
Kevin joining our west coast operation. Hes a proven creative leader that is as fluent in digital
and social marketing as traditional media. Hes the perfect fit for Bay area clients that are
looking for exponential growth and recognition. DDBs biggest clients include ConAgra and
Qualcomm.

Davis most recently served as an ECD of DDB Chicago, working on McDonalds and FiatChrysler.
He spearheaded the agencys successful and Cannes Lion-winning Lovin the Super Bowl
Twitter campaign, which shared the love with other Super Bowl advertisers and made
McDonalds the most retweeted brand ever in a single day. The work also recently won an Effie.
In addition, he headed up the Clio-winning Game Time Gold promotion for McDonald's,
which comically portrayed NFL players switching team allegiances in order to win big.

Davis stated, Im incredibly excited to be joining DDBs San Francisco office. I cant wait to
apply DDBs unique capability of finding the magic in our clients products and applying that to
the culture of innovation happening in the Bay Area every day. I think were in a unique
position to not only move DDB forward, but to push the boundaries of whats possible in an
agency.

Davis started as an art director and became digital in the early 90s while at GSD&M. He went
on to stints at Wieden & Kennedy, where he worked on multiple brands including Nike, ESPN,

Microsoft and Calvin Klein. Prior to joining DDB, he served as Executive Creative Director for
Digitas in Chicago and San Francisco.

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Unilever, Mars, Johnson & Johnson, Qualcomm, Capital One and State Farm, among others.
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