Hi, I’m Doug

Think of me as your creative Swiss Army knife. With a career spanning award-winning campaigns, bold brand strategies, and cutting-edge digital storytelling, I’ve got the skills to take your project from idea to execution—all while keeping things simple, streamlined, and cost-effective.”

Creative horsepower for agencies and brands—without the overhead. More than 30 years experience at virtually every aspect of advertising, marketing and corporate communications. Domestic and international experience leading global brands and creative teams in multiple international markets, including Dubai, London, New York, Chicago, Guangzhou, and Mumbai, to name a few.

  • “Doug has a great and infectious enthusiasm for all things creative. His reservoir of strategic knowledge is deep and he overflows with smart insights. Doug also has a very unique talent for defining creative strategies in a way that leads a team to the best possible, nail-on-the-head, nuanced results. All that, and he is a really fun guy to have around.”

    Laura Crawford - Executive Creative Director

  • “Not to blow sunshine, but Doug is one of the best creative directors I've worked for... and I've worked for some good ones. I'm excited to see what he does next.”

    GREY INGRAM - Creative Dirtector

  • “Doug was probably my best hire at Saatchi X in my three years there. He stands up for the work and the client and puts aside his own interests when delivering excellent creative and strategic ideas. I would go out of my way again and hire him. It was a pleasure to work and play with him at Saatchi X.”

    Carlos Sanchez - CCO

  • “Doug is a magnificently organized and widely skilled creative leader. He has that rare balance of left and right brain for understanding creative challenges, and executing plans for creating solutions for them.”

    Neal Foard - Enthusiastic Marketing Leader and Talent Developer

  • “Doug is one talented guy.... he is incredibly passionate about the work and making a difference. He is relentless... in a very good way!!!!

    Scott Gilbert - Adjunct Professor / Former CEO Saatchi & Saatchi LA

  • “For what it’s worth, I learned an astounding amount from Doug’s leadership. And yet, still not nearly enough. Relentless curiosity. Poise under pressure. Acute yet sensitive ear. And objective worldview. His inability to accept mediocrity. He has a commitment to truth and understanding. And of course, a quest for clarity. I can only hope he’ll be gracious enough to heed a phone call, text or email every so often, because I know I’ll need it.”

    Joel Walker - Group Creative Director

  • “Doug is a great person with a brilliant creative mind. He is able to quickly see the best path to great work and lead his team in that direction. Doug is smart, passionate and fearless - all traits I respect in a colleague. I truly enjoyed working with him and think any company would be fortunate to him on board.”

    Lisa Bridgers - Chief People Officer, North America at VML

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Chief Creative Officer / Partner

7/2019 - Present

dvk marketing / Bold solutions that unlock growth, and move them forward, with confidence and courage. It would be easy to go with a first-generation idea of what bold means. But first-generation isn’t our speed. We want something deeper. We’ll start by stating what bold is not: bombastic, loud, or braggadocious.
We believe bold, our brand of bold, is brave, courageous, and undaunted by convention. Our brand of bold is the kind that should intrigue people and ask them to think. Bold is as bold does. And does, and does again.
And when bold takes action, the meek are put on notice.
We aim for dvk to be a thoughtful, purposeful, and courageous kind of bold that doesn’t feel the need to shout because it’s far more bold to listen.
Because Bold is only loud when the results speak for themselves.

Executive Creative Director

9/2015 - 7/2019

Blue Chip Marketing Worldwide / Develop and inspire the creative team and oversee the creative product for a multi-disciplinary, full-service creative department. Oversee all phases of brand and shopper marketing, consumer promotion and digital creative activation for many major national brands including all of Proctor & Gamble’s brands, plus a host of challenger brands such as Fisher Nuts, Cream of Wheat, and Daisy Sour Cream and Cottage Cheese.

Global Executive Creative Director

4/09 – 7/15

Saatchi & Saatchi X / Oversee the national shopper, In-store, consumer promotional and digital creative activation for many major national brands including all of Proctor & Gamble brands (ie: CoverGirl, Olay, Crest, Charmin, Brawny, Pringles, Cover Girl, Tide, Cascade, PuR, Iams, and many others.) Managed a multi-disciplinary creative department in all phases of shopper marketing. Coordinated creative to comply with Walmart national retail chain requirements. Saatchi & Saatchi X is the world wide leader in shopper marketing, paving the way for brands to improve the lives of shoppers through the products and brands it represents around the globe.

Director/Group Creative Director

4/08– 11/08

Maritz | LOS ANGELES / Supervised the total creative experiential output and development for the national division of Maritz Interactions, with offices in LA, NYC, Detroit and St. Louis. One of the nations largest privately owned marketing and communications companies specializing in experience design and engagement marketing.

VP/Executive Creative Director

11/06 – 3/08

SA | DES MOINES / Mid-sized mid-western agency with billings near $90 million. Offering full range of services including web and interactive, multimedia, and traditional creative solutions to a wide variety of accounts.

Chief Creative Offer/ Founding Partner

4/05 – 8/06

Evil Genius | LA | DENVER | DETROIT / Independent creative development firm, with the idea it would offer innovative and media neutral creative resources to a variety of budget conscious clients including advertisers and agencies alike. It was intended to specializing in developing “Brand Intuitive” ideas from inception through execution. Built business from ground up to three office in LA, Denver and Detroit.

Group Creative Director

5/95 – 1/05

Saatchi & Saatchi LA / Spearheaded the creation of the Brand Integration Group for Saatchi & Saatchi/LA. Mentoring a group of over forty print, broadcast and web designers, producers, copywriters, experiential specialists and account planners developing award-winning work for Toyota USA as well as other accounts.

Directly responsible for winning the S&S LA’s first-ever Gold and Bronze Lion at Cannes. Oversaw the global launch of the legendary Toyota Prius, Hybrid.