Ben Coffey Clark is a founding partner responsible for business development at BPI. He advises some of the world’s largest brands on how to focus on the hearts and minds of modern customers and win business similar to how candidates win elections.
Ben is a passionate voice for digital marketing within the Democratic Party and has advised the largest digital marketing efforts for the party every cycle of the last two decades. He got his start on the Howard Dean campaign and has since helped Mike Bloomberg’s political operation take back the House in 2018 and guided the investments Priorities USA and NextGen made online and helped the Biden campaign in 2020 fight misinformation. Ben has overseen digital media strategy and over half a billion in political spend.
With a combination of diverse BPI talent and proprietary technology, he has developed innovative revenue strategies to accrue nearly a billion dollars in spend and sign top brands, presidential campaigns, and companies across four offices. He identified the acquisition of Incite, a strategic communications shop, whose talent combined with BPI’s technology has redefined what an integrated digital and communications team can do for a client. Ben’s work has received numerous accolades, and he was named Provoke Media Innovator 25 in 2021.
As a former political reporter and editorial director of The Washingtonian, he also advises publishers and platforms on editorial revenue models.