Doug Fitzsimmons
Vice President, Creative
Doug Fitzsimmons is Vice President, Creative at Participant Media, where he is responsible for overseeing creative development for all of Participant Media’s digital initiatives, including TakePart. During his career, he has worked in print and television advertising, direct marketing, and for the last 13 years, interactive.
Most recently, he was Director of Creative Design at Sapient, working with clients Sony Electronics, Logitech, Intuit, YellowPages, and Fandango.
Prior to Sapient, Doug was interactive agency Modem Media’s creative lead for Delta Air Lines. Under his leadership, his team completely revamped delta.com, transforming it into the first airline site to reach $1 billion in yearly revenue. Four year later, Doug joined DDB Los Angeles, the interactive arm of DDB Worldwide. As Creative Director, he created award-winning work for E! Online, Paramount Pictures, eHarmony, Wells Fargo and Epson.
Doug worked for a number of traditional advertising agencies before making the switch to interactive in 1996, co-founding the online division of Henderson Advertising. Additional clients have included CinemaNow, SC Johnson, General Motors Europe, Michelin, Citibank, Compaq, and 3Com.
Early in his career, he spent five years teaching kid’s guitar and parent/child developmental music classes at the Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago’s legendary arts organization.
A committed community activist, he lives with his wife Marjan in Los Angeles.
