Dave Saunders

Current

• President & Chief Idea Officer at Madison+Main, Advertising & New Media

Past

• Advertising & Marketing Manager at Richmond Times-Dispatch
• Director of Advertising Verticals at Los Angeles Times

Education

• Mary Washington College
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Heritage High School

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Recommended

29 people have recommended Dave

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Dave Saunders’s Summary

Madison+Main is an award-winning, advertising and new media firm that provides creative marketing solutions for emerging companies, usually small and mid-sized organizations with 15 to 1,500 employees. Clients include A Moment in Time, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Children Incorporated, The Coleman Institute, Getloaded.com, The Greater Richmond Chamber, Richmond.com, Shore Bank, Uppy’s, Wythe Will Distributing, and many others. The firm is based in Richmond, Virginia, with an additional office in San Diego, California. For more information, please visitwww.madisonmain.com or www.madisonmain.mobi from your mobile device.

Dave Saunders’s Specialties:

Brand & Marketing Consulting / Creative Concepts for Media / SEM /SEO / Social Media Marketing: Social Networking Campaigns / Facebook Application Development, Web 2.0 development, Interactive Web systems / New Media: Viral Video, Text Messaging, Guerilla Marketing & 3-D event marketing / Magazine Ads: Consumer and Trade / Newspaper /Outdoor / Transit / Radio / Television / Copywriting / Logos / Corporate ID Systems / Trade Show Exhibits / Catalogs / Direct Mail /PR Consulting

Dave Saunders’s Experience

• President & Chief Idea Officer

  Madison+Main, Advertising & New Media

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

  I sell million dollar ideas at a substantial discount.

• Advertising & Marketing Manager

  Richmond Times-Dispatch

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years )

• Director of Advertising Verticals

  Los Angeles Times

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TRB; Newspapers industry)

  1998 — 2002 (4 years )

Dave Saunders’s Education

• Mary Washington College

  1988 — 1990

• Virginia Commonwealth University

  Communications 1986 — 1988

• Heritage High School

Additional Information

Dave Saunders’s Interests:

Personally: volunteering, golfing, fishing, camping, hiking...all the things that allow me to spend more time with my family. Professionally: brand strategy development, creative concept for media, social media marketing, web 2.0 development, building strategic partnerships, growing our company through organic business development

Dave Saunders’s Groups:

Midlothian Rotary, Richmond Ad Club, Greater Richmond Chamber, Chesterfield County Chamber of Commerce, Retail Merchants Association, Chesterfield Public Education Foundation, Refresh Richmond and West Richmond Businessmen's Association.

•    Innovative Marketing, PR, Sales, Word-of-Mouth & Buzz Innovators
•    Richmond Ad Club
•    Refresh Richmond
•    Advertising Professionals
•    madison+main, the NEW MEDIA group
•    Public Relations and Communications Professionals
•    Entrepreneurs in Central VA
•    EconomyHeroes
•    Twittering
•    Word of Mouth
•    Retail Merchants Association 5th Annual Retail Marketing Expo
•    Heritage High School Alumni
•    Richmond.com
•    Cigar Libre

Dave Saunders’s Honors:

2008 Nominee SBA Small Business Person of the Year, 2008 Finalist for the 21st Annual IMPACT Awards-GRCC, 2008 Finalist- Shorty Awards (Best Producer Short Content on Twitter - Knight Foundation, 2008 Companies to Watch Finalist, 2007 - The Richmond Ad Show (Cannonball for Promotional Design)-Richmond Ad Club, 2007 Rotary International Public Relations Award, 2007 NSPRA Award of Merit and Honorable Mention-TED Campaign, 1993 Orson Welles Award from NAB for Radio Production, 2006 #37 on AdAge All-Time Top 100 Advertising Campaigns, 2003 Fellowship and Presenter-American Press Institute, 1994 Golden MIC-California AB.

Dave Saunders’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch