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Dan Fietsam

EVP, Chief Creative Officer, Energy BBDO Chicago

Dan Fietsam is the Chief Creative Officer of Energy BBDO and Proximity in Chicago. Clients include Wrigley, Dial, Bayer, Jim Beam, The Illinois Lottery, VTech, Brinker, Hyatt, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago White Sox. As a creative leader, Dan is happiest interacting with ideas, technology and content that gets his brain buzzing, his heart pumping and his mouth yapping regardless of the delivery system be it analog, digital or human. Dan’s creative direction has helped win recognition in Cannes, The One Show, Communication Arts, D&AD, Clio, Obie, Art Directors Club, MPA Kelly, Archive, Contagious, AdCritic, Adweek, AdAge, USA TODAY’s Ad Meter and the one award his Mom actually recognizes - an Academy of Television Arts and Science’s Emmy. Additionally, he has been honored to serve on multiple juries for The One Show, the Art Directors Club, the Effies, Hatch and London International. Previously, Dan was an Executive Creative Director at Publicis in the West in Seattle and a Creative Director at DDB, Y&R and Leo Burnett all in Chicago. Clients have included T-Mobile, Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light, Dell, Sears, Coca-Cola and Dewars. He began his career as a copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather after attending undergraduate at Eastern Illinois University and overgraduate at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.


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	Search for a speaker: View all speakers Dan Fietsam EVP, Chief Creative Officer, Energy BBDO Chicago Dan Fietsam is the Chief Creative Officer of Energy BBDO and Proximity in Chicago. Clients include Wrigley, Dial, Bayer, Jim Beam, The Illinois Lottery, VTech, Brinker, Hyatt, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago White Sox. As a creative leader, Dan is happiest interacting with ideas, technology and content that gets his brain buzzing, his heart pumping and his mouth yapping regardless of the delivery system be it analog, digital or human. Dan’s creative direction has helped win recognition in Cannes, The One Show, Communication Arts, D&AD, Clio, Obie, Art Directors Club, MPA Kelly, Archive, Contagious, AdCritic, Adweek, AdAge, USA TODAY’s Ad Meter and the one award his Mom actually recognizes - an Academy of Television Arts and Science’s Emmy. Additionally, he has been honored to serve on multiple juries for The One Show, the Art Directors Club, the Effies, Hatch and London International. Previously, Dan was an Executive Creative Director at Publicis in the West in Seattle and a Creative Director at DDB, Y&R and Leo Burnett all in Chicago. Clients have included T-Mobile, Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light, Dell, Sears, Coca-Cola and Dewars. He began his career as a copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather after attending undergraduate at Eastern Illinois University and overgraduate at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.