William Donovan

William Donovan is a hard-working, efficient, marketer with 6 years creative marketing experience. William has a strong business competency in budgeting and coordination. He has a proven ability to successfully multi-task and produce results.

William is a recent MBA graduate of Howard University with a concentration in Marketing. He also holds an A.A.S. in Visual Communication Technology - Graphic Arts and Printing.

William is passionate about his local community and volunteers as a mentor at a Maryland elementary school. In addition, he has created a peer mentorship program with his former student club that promotes career advancement and professional and social development.

William currently serves as an Executive Team Leader at Target where he drives profitable sales of over $42m annually through guest experience. He also manages a team of over 50 direct reports to obtain operational excellence while also building strong merchandising routines to better market products and increase sales.

Prior to business school William worked as a Community Relations Marketing Manager for the City of Buffalo, NY. In this role he successfully managed marketing campaigns for various city-wide initiatives increasing participation and citizen engagement through consumer insights and market analysis. Prior to this role he served as the Marketing/PR Coordinator where he was responsible for developing a mass marketing plan. In alignment with the new marketing plan he also created print materials leading to a 35% increase in our social media visitors.