Faculty

Jay Clewis is a designer, developer, marketing consultant, communications strategist, and educator with 20 years of experience in news media, social media, content marketing, and web design and development.       

Currently, Clewis focuses on consulting in all areas of digital branding, marketing, and business development for startups while holding dual teaching appointments at the USC Iovine and Young Academy in Los Angeles, and at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in New York.

At the Academy, Clewis teaches in the online graduate program including courses such as Marketing Strategy for Startups, Opportunity and Uncertainty, Narrative and Storytelling, as well as the program Capstone.

Previously, Clewis led strategic content teams at Syracuse.com for 11 years during the height of the news industry’s paradigm shift to digital. He went on to lead key mobile product development initiatives for Advance Local (formerly Advance Digital), the parent company of Syracuse.com and one of the nation’s largest digital publication companies.

Much of Clewis’ digital and content development leadership over the past decade has focused on UI/UX design and optimizing content for the mobile experience, trends he helped to pioneer for Advance Local.

In 2016, Clewis founded a boutique design agency, Launch Media Design, to help business leaders and entrepreneurs across the country build brand identity, awareness, and optimize their digital marketing strategies.

Clewis holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Art from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, and a Master of Science degree in New Media from Syracuse University in New York.