David Feldt

Current

• Senior Vice President, Managing Director at Organic Inc

Past

• VP, Managing Director at Blast Radius Inc
• SVP, Global Practice Leader at Wunderman
• Vice President, Director of e-Business Solutions at Wunderman Canada

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Education

• Omnicom University
• University of the Witwatersrand
• University of the Witwatersrand

Recommended

10 people have recommended David

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Twitter

David Feldt’s Summary

A degree in math and a love of analytics got me into derivatives trading where I discovered my addiction to constant change and innovation, my love of technology, my passion for understanding people and how their beliefs, values, perceptions, fears and greed transform markets. It’s where I nurtured a sense of urgency and an impatience to achieve results. In other words, It was an excellent training ground for working in the digital space.

In 1994, I witnessed the Internet over a 300 baud dial-up connection; I was instantly smitten and thought, "this will change the world." So I founded my own Internet consulting business in South Africa, with BMW as my first client. In 1996 I sold my business and moved to North America, and to Modem Media where I established and grew their account services practice, then I migrated to Wunderman. As VP, Interactive, I built Wunderman Canada‘s digital practice and subsequently sold the services across the Wunderman network in North America and Europe, working on brands like Ford, AT&T and Citibank. I then became SVP in New York, leading a global team responsible for IBM’s interactive marketing across major markets in North America, Europe and Asia.

I missed working exclusively on digital, so I joined Blast Radius' Toronto office as Managing Director. While there I opened and grew their Chicago office, focusing on driving business in Eastern Canada and the Central US. In 2005, I became the head of Organic’s Toronto office. Since then, we’ve grown more than threefold in size and service three of Organic’s largest global clients—Chrysler, Nike and Bank of America. I also became the publisher of Organic’s industry-insider blog, http://threeminds.com

I think of myself as an anthropologist, collaborator, cross-pollinator, experimenter, connector, doer, entrepreneur. That’s what living digitally does to you, makes you think not just outside of the box but across boxes and borders, calling up the sum of your knowledge and experience.

David Feldt’s Specialties:

Experience Design, New Business Development, Profit & Loss Management, General Management, CRM, Permission Marketing, Social Networks, Digital Marketing, Integrated Cross-channel Marketing, Anthropologist, Network Collaborator, Cross-Pollinator, Experimenter

Additional Information

David Feldt’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Twitter

David Feldt’s Interests:

Personal development / personal growth, travel, photography, continual education, golf, martial arts, design, innovation, exceptional experiences, mysticism, basketball, architecture, stock market, entrepreneurship, philantrophy. On the MBTI, I'm an ENFP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENFP

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