Manuel Donayre

Manuel Donayre is the Executive Director of Creative & Marketing for Evolve Media Corp., an integrated digital media company focused on vertical publishing, advertising sales and marketing services for its clients. Originally hired in 2009 to develop the eight-person Sales Integrations group, Manuel helped grow the department to a team of 85, made up of both domestic and international designers, directors, front-end developers, site engineers, project managers and marketing strategists. While managing the Creative division, Manuel continues to oversee and develop award-winning integrated campaign programs, creative brand strategies, core standards and practices, infrastructure development, as well as video production and concept generation for all Evolve divisions to execute against global sales and company goals. During his time at the company, he played a key role in helping Evolve win numerous campaign awards from organizations such as Digiday, Cynopsis Sports Media, ClickZ Marketing, and thinkLA Interactive.

With over 20 years of experience, Manuel came to Evolve from A.D.D. Marketing & Advertising, where he served as Creative Director Offline/Interactive. Previously, he worked in the music industry at both MCA Music Entertainment Group, and Priority Records, and spearheaded the brand development and video production for many award winning artists.

Manuel received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Art Institute of Southern California.