
Before he led Chernoff Newman, David Campbell worked in financial analysis and mortgage-backed securities. His second career has taken him through agency operations, advertising awards, library boards and the occasional barbecue judging table.

He built an agency in a spare bedroom, sold it, started again and carried a copywriter's eye into enterprise AI. The through-line is not reinvention for its own sake - it is the stubborn craft of making an idea clear enough to travel.