About Drew

Meet Drew Hawkins

Drew has over a decade of experience in digital marketing, with projects and roles ranging from social media marketing for large consumer brands, digital PR crisis counsel for large non-profits, and B2B demand generation marketing. As his cheesy LinkedIn headline implies, he is a digital marketing swiss army knife.

He started Brain Wads back in 2009 as a blog to share what he was learning in the social media space. Since then (despite never coming up with a better name for this website), his thinking has been featured in multiple national publications, much to the surprise of people who spend time with him.

Drew spent four years at Western Kentucky University running for the cross-country and track teams while also getting an Advertising degree. After a semester stint as an Account Executive for school-run ad firm Imagewest, he moved to Chicago during the 2009 recession, looking for marketing jobs because “why not do things the hard way?”

After spending the summer waiting tables at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company at Navy Pier, he landed his first job at Hinda Incentives, learning about Salesforce, B2B marketing, and building their social media experience from scratch. He parlayed that experience to a job working on the social media team for an agency in Atlanta and has been an Atlanta resident ever since. He currently runs the digital marketing function for Womble Bond Dickinson, an AM Top 100 law firm. 

Drew lives in Atlanta with his wife Megan (who also works in marketing and advertising) and their two kids. They all love spending time exploring the city, its museums, cheering for the Atlanta Hawks, and spending as much time outside as possible.

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