Melanie Benoit
Assistant Media Director (2006 – present)

Melanie joined the agency to work in this newly created position. Our 60+ clients depending on electronic media will receive her able assistance and attention. Melanie buys and negotiates the media, sending out the traffic for specific clients at the agency. She also organizes the billing for radio and TV before it goes to bookkeeping.

For five years, she worked at Pro Media in Newton: half of that time she spent in the Finance Department, and for the remainder she served the Broadcast Department as a Buyer and Broadcast Coordinator.

Melanie attended Worcester State College and majored in Business. She is a lifelong resident of our fair city and also bartends at the Banner Bar & Grille.

Ami Cadugan
Media Buyer (2008 – present)

Ami brings her passion for buying media to Davis Advertising. Ami loves the art of the negotiation and brings her experience in buying TV, radio, cable, print, outdoor and yellow pages to Davis. Ami is also looking forward to branching into online and Search Engine Optimization/Marketing for Davis clients. With her outgoing personality and aggressive style, 'shy' is not an adjective that can be used to describe Ami!

Prior to joining Davis, Ami worked as Media Buyer in New York City with McCann-Erickson, Ogilvy and Mather, Mindshare, MediaVest and Time Warner Cable. She has had the privilege of buying media for such diverse clients as General Motors, BP/Amoco, Sears, Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), and Unilever. Ami briefly crossed over to the 'dark side' and did a stint in TV sales with Telerep in Boston, before returning to her media buying roots at Davis.

Born in New York, Ami grew up in South Florida, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Advertising from Florida State University. Ami also has a Master of Arts in Mass Communication with a track in Advertising from the University of Florida, where the subject of her Master's Thesis was "Factors Influencing the Formation of Small Advertising Agencies from 1990-1993."

Ami lives in Shrewsbury with her husband Bryan and two daughters, Valerie and Sadie. She enjoys spending time with her family, working out, volunteer work, dining, cultural activities, and travel. Ami also has a lifelong shopping habit, which has helped make her the media buyer she is today!

Elizabeth Escribano
Traffic and Production Manager (2006 – present)

Elizabeth has quickly become a vital member of our agency team. With grace and tons of pleasant personality, she surfs the sometimes-rocky road of ad shipment with a calm, cool, and collected professionalism. Supervising the daily functions of reserving, monitoring and shipping over one hundred print ads (per week!) to more than thirty newspapers throughout New England and beyond is no simple task, and in no time we learned that Elizabeth is much more than up to the traditional task of Traffic Manager; she redefines it to the benefit of all.

Elizabeth is a native of Long Island, NY. She graduated from Hofstra University with a BBA in International Business. She brings years of network experience to our agency, acquired at Sony Pictures Television in NYC and WFTX Fox 4 in Cape Coral, FL.

Elizabeth just bought a house in Worcester, where she lives with her three huge mutts. In her free time, she loves to go horseback riding.

Laurie Shaughnessy
Traffic Coordinator
(2008 – present)

Laurie joins the Davis team as a Traffic Coordinator, working with every client and – as she describes it – “touching everything that gets booked.”

She attended Colby-Sawyer College in New London, NH where she majored in communications and minored in psychology.  She kept busy while in school, working extensively with the college radio station WSCS 90.9 as well are writing for the school newspaper, The Courier, playing on the college rugby team and dancing on the dance team.  Oh yeah – and she took a few classes in between!

            Before becoming a part of Davis, Laurie worked at TJ Maxx in Westborough for seven years and worked at Fenway Park in the Premium Suites for three seasons.  Currently, she also has a part time job with McFadden’s as their promotional assistant .

            When she’s not busy working, Laurie enjoy shopping in Boston (especially at Urban Outfitters), working out, taking walks with her dog Cooper, going online, sleeping, watching Friends and Family Guy, and going out with her friends.