Avi Dan

Avi Dan, Founder and CEO of Avidan Strategies LLC

Avi Dan is an experienced marketing consultant and agency search expert with over 30 years of industry experience. He currently serves as the Founder and CEO of Avidan Strategies LLC, a marketing consulting firm he founded in 2007 that specializes in agency search, compensation, and client-agency relationships.13

Prior to founding Avidan Strategies, Dan held several high-level executive positions at major advertising agencies:

• EVP, Global Executive Director at Havas Worldwide from 2005-2008, where he oversaw new business development and helped turn around the troubled agency1
• Managing Partner at Berlin Cameron from 2000-2005, where he helped the agency become the fastest growing in America and win "Agency of the Year" awards multiple times1
• EVP, North America CMO at Saatchi & Saatchi from 1996-20001
• EVP, Group Account Director at Young & Rubicam from 1989-19941

Dan has managed iconic brands for major marketers like P&G, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Sprint, The Wall Street Journal, Pernod Ricard and Pfizer over the course of his career.1 He is known as a "big picture thinker" and strategic brand builder who has delivered unparalleled growth for the agencies and clients he has worked with.2

In addition to his consulting work, Dan has served on the boards of Havas and the Executive Committee of Saatchi.1 He is also a frequent contributor to Forbes, Advertising Age, and AdWeek, and has taught at the Association of National Advertisers.24