About

Dave Hamel

Managing Director, ESW Partners

I’m a 4-time American Marketing Association EFFIE marketing-effectiveness award winner, have been both a corporate marketer (as CMO of ShopLocal.com) and the architect behind brands such as CareerBuilder, ABN/AMRO LaSalle Bank, SportMart, Sears, CellularOne, and Moen faucets during my 18 years in the Chicago office of Cramer-Krasselt.  I joined ESW in 2006.  I share my experience in marketing as an adjunct professor in the graduate program of Chicago’s Roosevelt University.

ESW Partners is an independent, employee-owned communications firm (we want to be beholding to our employees and clients, not distant stockholders).

We’re fully-resourced. Clients are too busy to spend time corralling resources. That’s why we offer and integrate them right here. Without a lot of extra effort for clients.

And we’re experienced. Many of us have been at this agency thing for a long time. But we’ll never have enough experience. This is a business that is always new.

We have a special expertise in retail branding and in integrating traditional with new media efforts to bring clients powerful solutions to their communications situations. Our interactive group is made up of specialists with strong backgrounds in online marketing, search, interactive design, and online media.

For many companies, ESW is the perfect fit between mega-agencies and too-small boutiques.

You can learn more about us at www.eswpartners.com.