Meenah Hulsen: Director, Political MediaAccounts: Time Warner Cable, Taco Bell, Samuels Diamonds, Statewide accounts & Political placement

Additional Roles: New business development, Media Strategist on all accounts, Interactive advertising specialist

Experience: Meenakshi plays a key role in providing our clients holistic and integrated media strategy that drives marketing results. Meenakshi has a keen eye for strategy and highly effective media planning. Her focus on media principles and concepts, in combination with her adept decision-making abilities, allow Meenakshi to be a valuable asset to the Davis Group team. Meenakshi is also the Interactive advertising specialist within the agency and has the expertise to guide the clients on how to best use the emerging media.

Meenakshi joined The Davis Group in 2003 after earning her Master’s Degree in Advertising/Account Planning from the highly reputed University of Texas at Austin graduate program. She is an honors graduate with a perfect 4.0 GPA, with coursework in media and brand management. Meenakshi also holds an MBA in Marketing from the F.O.R.E. School of Management in New Delhi, India.

Prior to pursuing advanced studies at the University of Texas at Austin, Meenakshi worked as advertising professional in India - she began her advertising career with the prestigious global agency Foote, Cone, & Belding. She spent two years there working on several multi-national accounts such as Reckitt Benckiser, Vespa Scooters, and Tropicana. Her other previous ex-perience in India includes employment with Siemens Telecom, where she worked in Brand Management.

Because of her diverse agency and account experience and prestigious graduate-level training, Meenakshi’s international experience brings a sophisticated global perspective to The Davis Group. Meenakshi has also been a speaker at various industry forums such as AWRT. Along with Monica Davis, Meenakshi acts as The Davis Group's political media strategist as well.

E-mail: mgautam@thedavisgrouptx.com