Dimitri Maex

Dimitri is the Managing Director of OgilvyOne New York. He is also a member of the OgilvyOne Worldwide board.

He joined Ogilvy in 1998 in Brussels to run the analytics capability. In 2001 Dimitri transferred to the London office to become Principal of International Consulting, responsible for developing the consultancy offering for international clients. He also became the head of Ogilvy’s Global Data & Analytics practice.

In 2004 Dimitri moved to San Francisco to work at Cisco’s headquarters in San José. There he was responsible for developing Cisco’s advanced analytics department. After a spell in Silicon Valley, he moved to the New York office to run Ogilvy’s Strategy team, which included Ogilvy’s Marketing Strategy, CRM and Analytics capabilities. He took on the management of OgilvyOne in New York in 2011.

Dimitri began his career as a financial controller at Kraft Foods, after which he joined the Amsterdam Group (European Alcoholic Beverages Industry Group) as a market analyst for the EU. Born and raised in Antwerp, Belgium, Dimitri studied econometrics at the University of Antwerp. He got his MBA at the Xavier Institute of Management in Bhubaneswar-India.

Dimitri is the author of Sexy Little Numbers, published in 2012. It was written for the general public to explain which data is best to watch, how to extract the storyline it reveals and where companies can find untapped profits.