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Duk-Ki Yu Email & Phone Number
Creative Director and Brand Founder
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MAJOR
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@majordc.com
2 phones found area 202
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Creative Director and Brand Founder
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Duk-Ki Yu is listed as Creative Director and Brand Founder at MAJOR, a with 96 employees, based in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at majordc.com, phone signal with area code 202, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Duk-Ki Yu.
Duk-Ki Yu previously worked as Creative Director/Brand Founder at Major and Strategic Business Consultant at New Era Cap. Duk-Ki Yu holds Bsee, Electrical/Electronics Engineering from California State University, Chico.
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About Duk-Ki Yu
A proven leader in marketing and brand strategy with over 30 years of experience in footwear, headwear, apparel, music & videogame entertainment industry.Bringing innovative marketing ideas and brand strategy to connect the client brands with influential young consumers, and providing consumer insights to come up with relevant branding messages.One of the world's first guerilla marketing innovators in the 90's, serving the music & fashion industry. Shifted focus to innovative videogame marketing and consultancy for the EA Sports brand since 1999. Successfully introduced New Era Cap Company as co-branding giant for the action sports and urban fashion brands between 2003 and 2006. Created one of the world's top sneaker and streetwear boutiques with MAJOR in 2006.My goal is to connect my clients with the influential consumers, and develop marketing campaigns and brand messaging that is culturally relevant to a broad spectrum of audience, diverse in age, education, lifestyle and cultural backgrounds. Musicians, actors, athletes, designers, bloggers, writers, and other influencers are within your reach with the help and guidance from my team.Specialties: Non-traditional marketing strategyConsumer InsightGuerilla marketing executionDigital and Social Media StrategyCreative Design ServicesMarketing Alliances and cross promotionProduct Creation for promotion & celebrity giftingProduct Placement for influencersSneaker & Apparel Design
Listed skills include Brand Development, Social Media Marketing, Creative Direction, Marketing, and 23 others.
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Major
6 roles · 35 years
Duk-Ki Yu work experience
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Creative Director/Brand Founder
CurrentBrand development, creative direction, and vendor relationship management for the first premium lifestyle footwear/sportswear based in Washington D.C..Also, acts as the chief buyer for all footwear, sportswear, and headwear categories.On the Agency side, MAJOR has absorbed all marketing/brand strategy/creative direction functions of Rugged Concepts, and Duk-ki leads the team in offering the best visionary service money can buy for our clients.
Dec 2006 - Present
Strategic Business Consultant
Returned to New Era to assemble and develop a high end boutique program (Energy Accounts), and to provide strategic plan for consumer engagement through specific sports pillars.Highlights include:4X account base secured for the Energy ProgramCurated and produced "The Red Story" Pop Up space for 2015 MLB ASG in CincinnatiBrought in Hypebeast.com as marketing & design partners
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Lifestyle Marketing Agency
Managed and activated experiential events for key influencers and celebrities to introduce new game launches. Was instrumental in bringing culturally relevant campaigns to specifically target urban audiences in introduction of new game titles. Managed relationship between EA and partner companies to conduct synergetic marketing efforts, and led a team to design and execute promotional products that gained recognition in fields beyond the gaming industry, including footwear with Nike and adidas.
1998 - 2011
~13 yrs
President
Rugged Concepts, Inc.
Marketing & Strategic Branding Agency. Clients include: Electronic Arts, Zynga, L'Oreal USA, Nike, Reebok, Russell Athletics, New Era Cap Company, American Sporting Goods, Coca Cola, AT&T, Universal Music, Def Jam, Interscope, Arista, Sony, EMI, RCA, Warner Bros., Atlantic Records & more.Creative Direction. Clients include: New Era Cap Company, Nike, and Adidas.Rugged Concepts has merged with MAJOR, Inc., and has been reorganized as MAJOR, The Agency.
1992 - 2011
~19 yrs
Strategic Consultant
Contracted to develop and implement a strategy to grow non-licensed headwear business at New Era, and develop limited edition product ideas for licensed urban business.Lead projects included New Era's return to Magic tradeshow, starting a boutique branded headwear program with leading boutiques in the US, and developing a multi-tiered distribution program with strategic business units at New Era.Efforts led to over 300% increase in gross sales for the urban strategic business unit.
2003 - 2006
~3 yrs
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Duk-Ki Yu education
Bsee, Electrical/Electronics Engineering
California State University, Chico
Mba, Business
Georgetown University
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Duk-Ki Yu is listed as Creative Director and Brand Founder at MAJOR.
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Duk-Ki Yu is based in Washington, District of Columbia, United States while working with MAJOR.
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Duk-Ki Yu has worked for Major, New Era Cap, Electronic Arts, Rugged Concepts, Inc., and New Era Cap Co..
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What schools did Duk-Ki Yu attend?
Duk-Ki Yu holds Bsee, Electrical/Electronics Engineering from California State University, Chico.
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Duk-Ki Yu is listed with skills including Brand Development, Social Media Marketing, Creative Direction, Marketing, Strategy, Negotiation, Creative Services, and Brand Management.
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