Publicis Seattle has hired Lori Davis as EVP, executive business director. Davis will become both the account and business lead on the agency’s T-Mobile account. She will be responsible for sustaining, growing and optimizing the T-Mobile business – from account management and hiring to operational oversight of creative development and production. Davis will report to agency CEO Scott Foreman.
Prior to joining Publicis Seattle, Davis was managing director at Minneapolis-based ad agency Barrie D’Rozario DiLorenzo, where she led integrated planning for clients such as Dell, Rosetta Stone, and United Health Group.
Earlier in her career, Davis was VP of marketing at Activision (Minneapolis), where she provided global strategic leadership over all brand marketing activities for the licensed business unit of Activision. The unit publishes some of the most iconic brands in the interactive entertainment industry, including Marvel, Transformers, James Bond, Tony Hawk, The Walking Dead and Family Guy. While there, Davis’ team brought home awards for campaigns on major video game launches such as The Amazing Spider-Man, Transformers Fall of Cyberton, Goldeneye Reloaded and Prototype 2.
Davis also spent three years at Martin Williams, Minneapolis, as SVP, director of engagement, overseeing the account planning, media, CRM, social strategy and analytics disciplines. During this time, she worked on campaigns for Payless Shoe Source, Raymond James Financial Services, Marvin Integrity Windows and Finnegans Irish Amber Beer.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More