Gilbert Davila serves on the care management and quality, corporate strategy, and finance committees

Davila is the vice president of multicultural marketing for The Walt Disney Company.  In this role, Mr. Davila is charged with working with all corporate divisions (theme parks and resorts, studio entertainment, media networks, and consumer products) to help build, enhance and strengthen Disney’s connections with various multicultural segments. 

Prior to joining Disney, he was the vice president of multicultural management at Sears, Roebuck and Co. where he spent  seven years building what became one of the leading multicultural marketing programs in the country.  While at Sears, Davila was also the publisher of the Nuestra Gente magazine, the largest ABC-audited Spanish magazine in the country, with a circulation of 865,000.  He has also had various sales and marketing roles with Coca Cola USA and Procter & Gamble. 

Davila also serves as a board member of the Association of National Advertisers and serves as chairperson for the ANA’s Multicultural Marketing Committee.  He was a featured speaker at Harvard University’s program entitled “Beyond the Niche Market”, was the most highly rated speaker at the ANA’s 2001 Multicultural Conference, and has delivered keynote speeches at numerous conferences and corporations such as Kraft, General Mills, and General Motors. 

He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the American Advertising Federation Hall of Achievement Award, Advertising Age’s Marketing 100 Award, and Crain’s Top 40 Under 40 Award.