Ete Davies is Dentsu Creative’s EVP, for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) – responsible for leading Dentsu Creative’s regional practice, connecting its community of 3000+ people across 31 markets, to deliver on Dentsu Creative’s mission of transformative creativity for its clients and society.
He joined Dentsu Creative in June 2022, as Chief Operating Officer for EMEA where he built out the strategy, capabilities, proposition and ‘operating system’ that brought together all of Dentsu’s legacy agency brands across the region as part of the newly launched Dentsu Creative’s EMEA network. Since becoming Dentsu Creative EMEA EVP/CEO he’s led the Dentsu Creative EMEA network to win 11 ‘Agency Of the Year’ awards across seven of its international markets, as well as the 2024 Cannes Lion Grand Prix in Creative Strategy for the highly effective ‘Piece of Me’ campaign for KPN.
Prior to joining Dentsu Creative, Ete was CEO of Engine:Creative (now House337) where he transformed the agency – culminating in it being recognised amongst ‘Fast Company’s 100 Most Innovative Companies 2021’ and collecting the Cannes Lion Titanium Grand Prix 2022 for the highly impactful Kiyan Prince Foundation’s #longlivetheprince campaign.
With over 25 years’ experience in the creative sector working at some of the world’s premier creative agencies including AKQA, Tribal Worldwide, Digitas and AnalogFolk where, while as Managing Director, the agency consistently ranked amongst the UK’s top creative agencies and was recognised in the Financial Times ‘UK Future 100’. His experience spans many sectors from Financial Services, Travel, Technology, FMCG to Automotive, for both national and global brands. He’s led multi-national, multi-disciplined teams scaling from project to global network level with specialisms in Brand Advertising, Digital Experience, Innovation and Business Transformation.
Ete is also Non-Executive Director for both the Guardian Media Group and global comms agency Manifest; as well as Trustee for both the Creative Foundation (UK) and MediaTrust, as well as Chair for the Advertising Associations ‘All-in’ working group for Black, African and Caribbean heritage communities and a member of the Effie’s UK Council.
