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!

Melissa Callahan
Traffic and Production Manager
(2008 – present)

Melissa joins the Davis team as the Production and Traffic Manger, supervising the daily functions of reserving, monitoring and shipping over one hundred print ads to more than thirty newspapers throughout New England and beyond.

Prior to Davis, Melissa worked as a marketing operations manager for JPMorgan Chase. She was also part-owner and operator of her family’s general store in Hubbardston as well as started and owned a pet-sitting business.

Melissa attended Stonehill College in North Easton MA where she majored in communications and minored in journalism. While there, she was a DJ for the college radio station, WSHL, and wrote for the school’s paper, The Summit.

Melissa lives in Worcester with her husband and two cats, Daisy and Belle. She enjoys rock music and going to shows, the Twilight book series, traveling, animals and – as she puts it – “anything to do with fashion and design.”

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 as 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 enjoys 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.

Bob Lynch
Media Buyer (2009 – present)

Bob Lynch joins the Davis Media Services team as a media buyer and planner, working with such clients including Charter Business, Berkshire Bank and Ralph’s Wines and Spirits.

Working for both large and small advertising agencies in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Bob has 20-plus years experience in media.  He graduated from Villanova University, with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, where he was also the captain of the rugby team.

While born in Malden, Mass and spending his childhood on the South Shore, Bob resided in New Jersey for a number of years before finally moving back to Leicester, Mass.  Bob enjoys live music (classic rock), live comedy, sports, movies and the outdoors. 

Kelly Belmont
Media Buyer (2009 – present)

After spending three years on the sales side of the ad desk at HRP Chicago, Kelly is excited to get back to the agency side of the business. Her previous agency experience includes working as a media buyer at Zenith Media and Leo Burnett/ Starcom.

Kelly was born and raised in Chicago. She is a graduate of the University of Dayton in Ohio. After college, she moved back to Chicago where she has spent the past 13 years (with one year in California thrown in for spice). Don’t let her quiet demeanor fool you: she is a ham at heart. She is a graduate of the famed Second City Conservatory, and has performed in several theatrical, improv, and sketch comedy productions around Chicago.

Kelly recently relocated to Worcester, and is finding it to be quite different from the Midwest. Her favorite new discoveries: Polar Orange Dry, Shrewsbury Street, and lobster rolls. Kelly is also digging all these beautiful hills in Worcester, but knows that will change once she experiences her first real-live “nor’easter”. Oh, and after being a lifelong Cubs fan, it feels kind of cool to have a baseball team that actually wins championships.