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DAVID MENEARMARKETING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE

Core Competencies

Sales leader Strategic

Compassionate PR savvy

Team leader Passionate

Award winning creative thinker Social media smarts

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Profile

Executive Business Development Director

Proven ability to engage highest-level executives in Blue Chip/SME corporations with

compelling value propositions. Peer-level capability of winning and keeping

their trust, respect and ultimately their business.

Advertising Agency President and Creative Director

An Internationally awarded, experienced and accomplished advertising,

marketing and communications professional. Possesses extensive expertise in

conceptualization and directing of both internal and external creative teams

and services. Strong and strategic project management skills. Powerful

presenter. Proven business acumen. Considered a lighthearted and high energy

leader with a reputation for crystal clear communications that positively

impacts on the bottom line of both client and agency.

David Menear

2327 Queen St E - 4

Toronto ON

M4E 1G7

647 530 3522 davidmenear@gmail.com

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Experience

Director New Business Development, Unit Park

Toronto – 2016 (contract)

Parking facility owners, operators and management

Managing Director, Chameleon Creative/Broadview

Campbell River, BC - 2015 (contract)

Website design & development

Director New Business Development, Broadview Strategy

Toronto – 2014 (contract)

Public Relations, Government Relations, Social & Web (contract)

Vice President New Business & Client Service, Caneast

Toronto -2012 - 2013 (contract)

Ethnic-centric ad agency with a focus on targeting Asian & South Asian Canadians

Director New Business Acquisition, BLUE Communication

Montreal -2012 (contract)

All things digital: Web, SEO, e-commerce

Director New Business Development, St. Louis Communications

Montreal -2011- 2012 (contract)

Boutique full-service ad agency

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Director of Marketing & New Business, SOMOADS/Native Touch

Montreal - 2011 (contract)

Online, mobile & social media

Executive Summits Sales Director, Marcus Evans International

Montreal & London, UK - 2000 –2010

C&V-level prearranged business meetings between supply and demand in numerous

verticals. Recruit, train, motivate and manage multiple teams of 6-8 sales executives,

achieving annual sales of USD 12M+.

Top new business generation & development in Canada

Number one internationally- repeat & retained clients

Creative Director, Marketel Pharma (McCann-Erickson)

Montreal -1998 – 1999

Reported to President and CEO, responsible for start-up of agency pharmaceutical

division based upon my clients from Menear Advertising. Objective of one year handover

was to ensure smooth transition of Menear Advertising clients and projects.

President and Creative Director, Hammond Menear Advertising

Montreal -1991 - 1998

Successful entrepreneur. Created and operated highly profitable pharma/healthcare

focused boutique agency. Built sales to $CAD 3+ million with permanent staff of six,

combined with creative and production outsourcing. Sold to McCann-Erickson.

Key accounts: Pfizer Consumer, Ross-Abbott, Mead Johnson, Bell Canada, Blitz, Coty

Cosmetics.

Creative Director, McBride Advertising

Montreal -1989-1991

Reporting to the President. Responsible for overall improvement of creative and

marketing product quality from concept through execution.

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Creative Director, Anderson DDB

Montreal - 1984 - 1989

Reporting to the Executive Vice President and National Creative Director.

Responsibilities included: Concept, copy & design and supervision of execution and

budgets, presentation of campaign concepts to clients. Pitch and win new accounts.

AwardsGraphis International, Zurich, SwitzerlandGovernment of Canada, Industry and Trade, Report coversAdvertising Age ­ The Best Awards ­ 1st Place, Print Magazine, New York, USAMenear Advertising, new business development campaignInternational Advertising Festival of New York, USACAST Shipping, international print advertising campaignThe Advertising Club of New York, USACannes Film Festival, mailingsThe Mobius Advertising Awards ­ Certificate for Outstanding Creativity, Chicago,USATrans Canaderm, Cuplex Gel (topical antifungal), packaging, professional & consumer advertisingPoint of Purchase Advertising Institute (POPAI), Best of Industry Award, Washington, USAPfizer Canada, Visine (ophthalmic solution), pharmacy product displayApplied Arts Awards, Toronto, CanadaMedical Communications Group (MCG), sales promotion direct mail advertising seriesThe Art Directors’ Club of Toronto, CanadaPfizer Canada, Leeming Division, Plax (Oral antiseptic rinse), professional & consumer launchThe Art Directors’ Club of Toronto, CanadaThe Kidney Foundation of Canada, (pro bono) public service awareness & fundraising campaignThe Art Directors’ Club of Toronto, CanadaPfizer Canada, Visine (ophthalmic solution), national billboard, magazine, interior and exterior transit campaignThe Art Directors’ Club of Toronto, CanadaCanadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Newspaper & outdoor

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EducationThe School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA­Advanced Standing­Communication Arts

InterestsReading, writing, and playing tennis with ferocious enthusiasm and mediocrityAnything in the woods or near the waterOft published poet and short story writer/singer­songwriter

http://music.cbc.ca/#!/artists/DAVID­MENEAR

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24943194-one-dead-tree

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David Menear

647 530 3522

davidmenear@gmail.com