Azher Ahmed

For over 20 years, I’ve led technology, marketing, brand and promotional efforts across virtually all categories of industry. My clients include McDonald’s, Wal-Mart, State Farm, GEICO, Comcast, Fidelity, Tyson, Abbott Labs and Mars. I started my career as a designer and strongly believe creativity is vital to solving large, complex business challenges.

I’m currently EVP/Chief Digital Officer @ DDB in the US. Prior to that, I’ve built and led digital marketing at agencies including The Martin Agency, Arnold, FCB, and Townsend (now a part of Epsilon).

My career has spanned from strategy through deployment, design through development, and theory through application across digital and traditional media channels. I help make sense of (what appears to be) chaos and believe good leadership is involved and accountable throughout.

Along the way, there have been numerous award-winning campaigns and platforms spanning mobile, web, gaming, experiential, e-mail, social and online commerce. I’ve spoken at numerous conferences including Social Media Week (NY and Chicago), SXSW, Advertising Week, Internet Week and colleges/universities. I’m also honored to be involved judging The Webby Awards and various IAB initiatives including MIXX.

The press seems to like my bantering and I’m quoted with regularity. I’ve also written a few things and would love to write more at some point.