Frank Palmer

Known as the “winningest” man in Canadian advertising, Frank Palmer is one of the ad community’s most respected leaders and humanitarians. From his humble beginnings in Vancouver over 40 years ago, Frank has created Canada’s most creatively acclaimed marketing communications agency, remade DDB into a powerhouse brand, and changed the face of Canadian advertising. As the chief engineer of the merger between Palmer Jarvis and the DDB network in 1998, Frank has built a thriving national agency network renowned for its creative, integrated approach to marketing. Eight years later, re-branded as DDB Canada, it’s stilled ranked as the country’s leading creative agency by Strategy magazine.

An exceptional leader in the business community, Frank is a well-known philanthropist and believer in corporate social responsibility. He is a Founder of the National Advertising Benevolent Society (NABS) in Canada. Frank also created the Good Cause Award, a unique competition that honours one extraordinary charitable organization with a national public service announcement (PSA) campaign worth more than two million dollars in donated creative development, production and media placement.

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the industry, Frank was inducted into the Canadian Marketing Hall of Legends by the American Marketing Association in 2005 and received the Association of Canadian Advertiser’s Gold Medal in 2004.