WHO WE ARE
Lee Jenkins
Senior Vice President
With more than 25 years of experience in providing integrated communications services, Lee Jenkins manages Widmeyer’s marketing, advertising, design, web, new media, video and media training professionals.
Jenkins has worked with corporate, association, nonprofit and government clients developing national, regional and local advertising, branding and communications campaigns. Although his roots are in print design, Jenkins has expertise in brand analysis and development and has assumed leadership roles in bringing memorable and effective images and messages to audiences through a variety of print and online media.
In addition to his operations responsibilities with the firm, Jenkins directs several client accounts including Ford Motor Company’s Partnership for Advanced Studies, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Pew Center for Global Climate Change and the Department of Transportation’s America’s Byways Program. Lee has also created a branding process for evaluating, analyzing and building brands, called the Branding Summit® which has been effective in launching and re-positioning many businesses and client initiatives.
Before joining Widmeyer, Jenkins directed the creative department at the Washington office of Shandwick International and prior to Shandwick's Powell Tate, he built and directed the advertising and creative groups at Powell Tate (part of Cassidy Companies, Inc.) as one of the founding members of the agency. His clients included Visa/MasterCard, USTA, Nabisco, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Hooters and the Department of Education.
Jenkins also served as the art director for Ogilvy & Mather's D.C. office, where he directed a creative group in the development of materials for clents that included Burger King, Nissan, the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, International Paper and Nestle.
Prior to Ogilvy, Jenkins was the design director for PraCon, Inc, a pharmaceutical consulting firm in northern Virginia. Jenkins managed the design and production of advertising campaigns, packaging, and with the marketing division conceived and implemented direct marketing programs for many Fortune 100 pharmaceutical companies including Merck, Glaxo, Upjohn. Searle, SmithKline and Roche.
Jenkins has a BFA degree in graphic communications from Temple University.