Drew Davis

Mr. Davis joined API in December 2003. He previously was director of innovation and business development for the Media Management Center (MMC) at Northwestern University. A major general in the Marine Corps Reserve, Mr. Davis took leave from MMC between July 2001 and July 2003 to serve as director of Marine Corps Public Affairs at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. Prior to joining MMC, he was president of Chicago Sun-Times Features, Inc., a division of The Sun-Times Company, and of Performance Media, a custom publishing division he conceived and developed into a multi-million-dollar venture. He also was vice-president of the Sun-Times Company. He holds a bachelor's degree cum laude in English literature from Princeton University and a master's degree with distinction in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School. For 10 years he was group publisher and newspaper operations vice-president of Pioneer Newspapers, a 41-newspaper group based in suburban Chicago. He has attended two API seminars: Weekly Advertising Executives (1984) and the Executive Development Program (1992).