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| David Demarest
—President David received his BFA from Pratt Institute and immediately began designing, art directing, strategizing, conceptualizing and otherwise doodling his way to the position of Senior Art Director and Vice President at several of the world's leading advertising agencies, including NW Ayer, Saatchi & Saatchi, Della Femina McNamee and eleven years at the legendary Ally & Gargano. David has created advertising campaigns for such accounts as Purdue Pharma, IBM, Federal Express, Citicorp, Citibank, Piper Aircraft, Dunkin' Donuts, Pentax, Travelers Insurance, Saab VoiceNet and SAS among others. In addition to his advertising work, David filmed, art directed and edited a documentary on the making of award winning TV commercials for Fiat Automobiles. The documentary was shown in movie theaters throughout France and Italy. David is the recipient of The Art Director's Club Silver Medal, and has won many other awards throughout his career. David is President and Creative Director of PMG Ad Group, formerly Pinnacle Marketing Group, providing public relations, advertising and graphic design services to local and national clients. |
| David Schneider—Copy Chief David began his advertising career writing retail copy for JCPenney Department Stores ("Percale Sale!"). In 1980, David found a true creative habitat at Ally & Gargano where he eventually became a Senior Vice President, Group Creative Head. In his twelve years with the agency, David did award winning advertising for Dunkin Donuts, Federal Express and Barneys New York, among others. His advertising to the business community on the viability of owning and leasing corporate airplanes helped boost sales of Piper Aircraft and contributed to the early success of the Canadair Challenger corporate jet. His work for the corporate banking division and particularly the Custom Banking Division of The Bank of New York contributed to a significant increase in demand for corporate banking services and Custom Bank loans. In April of 1995, David became an Associate Creative Director at Bozell Worldwide. His assignments included The New York Times, Healthy Choice Foods, the Weather Channel and the Petroleum Institute. In January of 1999, David joined Hill Holliday Altschiller as head writer on Omnipoint wireless, the agency's largest account. Sales achieved record levels. David also wrote for Boar's Head Meats and Dun & Bradstreet. In September 2000, David arrived at Ryan Drossman Marc USA as an Associate Creative Director. Accounts included Bear Stearns and Cantor Fitzgerald/eSpeed Broadband. He also contributed creative to the agency's News Alert pitch. News Alert is an Internet provider of financial news. Yeah, they got the account. In March of 2001, David became Copy Chief at PMG Ad Group. David is a cum laude graduate of the City University of New York and has won numerous awards from the One Show, the Art Directors Club and the Clios. |