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YOUNG PROFESSIONALS ACADEMY
2023 FACULTY 

Alistair King, 2021 Pitcher Awards Heritage Jury President

Damola Richard

Salvador

Managing Director, Digisplash, Nigeria

About

Damola Richard

Damola Richard Salvador is a firm believer in disruptive thinking. He is the CEO and Lead Strategist at Digisplash, a content-led, integrated marketing and award-winning advertising agency.

A marketing professional with over 12 years of experience, with strong creative and strategic skills, Damola's uncanny knack to interpret and distill brand needs has led to an admirable level of respect across industries.

Damola holds a BA(Honours) in Business & IT from the Dublin Business School, and an M.Sc in Digital Marketing from the Digital Marketing Institute, Ireland. He is an associate member of APCON, a member of the Chartered Management Consultants, a certified speaker, and a leader in the prestigious John Maxwell Leadership team. He has spoken at various Industry events, including past Creativity Week events and most recently was a panelist and speaker at the BusienssDay Top 100 SMEs event in Lagos.

Coca-Cola, Phoenix Browser, Diageo, ABinBev, Suntory, The World Bank, Reckitt Benckiser, Etisalat, Toyota, GSK, Mixta Africa, and Zedcapital Group, to mention a few are part of the brands that Damola has developed and run winning campaigns for.

Some of the awards he has led his teams for include: Best Fintech campaign of the year 2019, 2018 Gold, 2022 Silver Cannes Lions Award for Digital, 2022 Silver Cannes Lions Award for Film, 2018 Pitchers Silver Integrated campaign of the year, 2018 Pitchers Bronze Integrated campaign of the year, Public Sector campaign of the Year 2017, MADCON top 100 agencies in Dubai in December 2019 & 2022, Nigerian Marketing Award 2022 Digital Agency of the Year and BusinessDay Top 100 Fastest Growing SMEs.

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