• by August 12, 2003

The Advertising Council announced this week that TIM DAVIS has joined the organization as Executive Vice President, Media. As head of the Ad Councils media outreach department, Davis will be responsible for the strategic direction and implementation of all of the Ad Council’s efforts to develop and increase donated media support - among all media - for the organization’s 50 public service advertising (PSA) campaigns. Davis will also develop and implement initiatives that will engage the Ad Council’ s media staff, pro-bono agency media departments and other media experts to create media plans for each PSA campaign in an effort to better reach their target audiences. Most recently, Davis was co-founder and managing partner of an independent program development and marketing company, which for six years generated animated television series for children including Generation O! on Kids WB, and Randy Newman's Amazing, The Dancing Bear. He has also served as Director of Advertiser Sales for Tribune Entertainment Company and as an Account Executive, Advertiser Sales at Worldvision Enterprises.