DDB CEO and leadership

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Albert Chen, James Doyle, Maxwell Dane and Peter Weingard founded DDB.

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DDB CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Wendy Clark is the DDB's CEO. DDB has 10,001 employees, of which 22 are in a leadership position.

Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The DDB executive team is 27% female and 73% male.
55% of the management team is White.
13% of DDB management is Hispanic or Latino.
9% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

Wendy Clark

CEO

Albert Chen

Founder and Chief Consultant

Albert Chen is a Co-Founder & CEO at GeneOS, Co-Founder at masklab, and Founder and Chief Consultant at DDB Worldwide and is based in Beverly Hills, California. He has worked as Chief Architect at Arcana, Founder and CEO at UM! Brands, and Vision Care Marketing Intern at Johnson & Johnson. Albert attended University of Michigan between 2005 and 2009.

James Doyle

Founders

Maxwell Dane

Founders

Peter Weingard

Founder

John Whiting Cisa, Cissp, McSe

Chief Security Officer

John Whiting is a Chief Security Officer at DDB Worldwide and is based in New York, New York.

Alex Hesz

Global Chief Strategy Officer

Alex Hesz is a Global Chief Strategy Officer at DDB Worldwide and is based in London & New York. He has worked as Business Director at DDB UK, Executive Interactive Director at adam&eveDDB, and Chief Strategy Officer at adam&eveDDB. Alex studied at University of Oxford.

Ari Weiss

Chief Creative Officer

Ari Weiss are a Chief Creative Officer at DDB Worldwide. They have worked as Chief Creative Officer at Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) and Executive Creative Director at Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH).

Christoph Pietsch

Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

Christoph Pietsch is a Member of the Advisory Board \'Medien/Digital\' at Landesregierung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Botschafter at DU BIST WERTVOLL Stiftung, and Vorstand at GWA - Gesamtverband Kommunikationsagenturen and is based in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. He has worked as Assistant to Chairman I New Business Development at GREY Germany, Marketing & Sponsoring Strategy/Hospitality at Own start-up I KFC Uerdingen 05 e.V., and Junior Executive Business Development at GREY Germany. Christoph studied at FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management University of Applied Sciences between 2009 and 2014 and GREY Worldwide GmbH between 2006 and 2008.

Chuck Brymer

Board Member

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Name & TitleBio

Albert Chen

Founder and Chief Consultant

James Doyle

Founders

Maxwell Dane

Founders

Peter Weingard

Founder

DDB board members

Name & TitleBio

Chuck Brymer

Board Member

DDB leadership demographics

DDB gender distribution in management team

The DDB executive team is 27% female and 73% male.
DDB is 48% female and 52% male company-wide.

Male

73%

Company-wide: 52%

Female

27%

Company-wide: 48%

DDB executives by race

Management Team:

The most common ethnicity among DDB executive officers is White.
55% of the management team is White.
21% of DDB's management is Asian.
13% of the management team is Hispanic or Latino.

Company-wide:

White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
56% of employees are White.
19% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
11% of employees are Black or African American.

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Updated November 18, 2022

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