Doug Wise

Doug, founder and president of The Wise Associates, held senior management positions with international advertising agencies McCann-Erickson Worldwide and Lowe & Partners/SMS Worldwide, global communications company The Interpublic Group of Companies, and leading graphic arts company Applied Graphics Technologies.

Doug worked with senior management, marketing and human resources officers of major corporations. These professionals appreciate the role of communications in building loyal relationships with various constituencies - whether consumers, customer, government, media or employees. These clients included Coca-Cola, Sony, Goodyear, Sara Lee, Bristol-Myers, University of Rochester, Saks Fifth Avenue, Gillette, Colonial Candles of Cape Cod, the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth, the Archdiocese of New York, Deck House, and King Arthur Flour.

Doug received his B.A. from Dartmouth College (1959) and M.B.A. from Columbia University with emphasis in Marketing (1965). He has been cited in Executive Chess - Creative Problem-Solving by 45 of America’s Top Business Leaders and Thinkers. He was a global marketing consultant for select Japanese clientele of McKinsey & Company. He served as visiting professor at Pace University in its MBA program.

His involvement with Dartmouth is highlighted by his creation and implementation of a leadership conference that help catapult his class’s participation with the College and his directing his class’s 35 th, 40 th, 45 th and pending 50 th reunions. He was among the founding group of ‘59s who created Dartmouth Partners in Community Service and continues on its Alumni Board.

He supports the visual and performing arts, plays racquet sports, and provides manage-ment and personnel counsel for local organizations. He is secretary of the Norwich Racquet Club, on the Boards of the Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce, Dartmouth Partners in Community Service, the Lyme Historians, and the Upper Valley Land Trust, and a member of The Friends of the Hopkins Center for the Arts and the Hood Museum, and North Country Chordsmen.