Clyde Miles

About Clyde Miles

As Executive Vice President, Account Director at Adcom, I oversee the development of innovative brand, marketing, strategic design, integrated media and content strategies for clients in economic development, consumer products and business to business communications, including investor relations and ESG initiatives. I grew up in western Massachusetts and received an A.S. in Retail Management from Holyoke Community College. I started my career as a Management Trainee with Federated Department Stores in Miami. I soon moved to Chicago, attended Northwestern University and progressed from Director of Marketing Services at Donald E. Whiting, Inc. to Vice President and Director of Client Services at DMB & B. I moved on to become a Division President at both Bozell Worldwide in Detroit and Meldrum & Fewsmith Communications in Cleveland. I was Founder/CEO of Brain Farm, Inc, and a Founding Partner at both Optiem, LLC and Uppercut Motion+Sound, LLC and am currently EVP, Account Director at Adcom. I have a passion for the arts and education and am President of the Board at Arts Impact, member of the Board at Assembly for the Arts and the Visiting Committee at the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University and the former Marketing Chair at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. I have spoken at numerous national and regional conferences on content strategy and social media and has won a number of marketing industry awards in my career. I am also a member of the Leadership Cleveland Class of 2017 and have operated as a fractional CMO for a number of organizations.

Experience

1. Executive Vice President

   Adcom

   Sep 2000 — Present · Cleveland/Akron, OH, US

   We help our clients build charismatic, high-performing brands.

Education

• Northwestern University

  History Major

  1983 — 1985

• Holyoke Community College

  Associate of Science (A.S.)

  1975 — 1978

Skills

• Direct Marketing
• Email Marketing
• Digital Marketing
• Marketing Strategy
• Marketing
• Viral Marketing
• Sem
• Integrated Marketing
• Online Advertising
• Creative Direction
• Web Development
• Brand Development
• Content Management
• Content Strategy
• Digital Strategy
• Public Relations
• Advertising
• Mobile Marketing
• Content Development
• Online Marketing
• Social Media
• Marketing Communications
• SEO
• Strategy
• Start-Ups
• Interactive Marketing
• Brand Activation
• Social Media Marketing