Billy Sharma

Graduate Diploma, Hochschüle fur Gestaltung; BSc, Bombay University; Degree in Art, J.J. School of Art
P/T Faculty

Phone: 416.675.6622 x3358
Fax:
Email: billy.sharma@humber.ca

Billy has over 20 years of direct marketing experience working in four major cities – Munich, Montreal, New York and Toronto.

For the last sixteen years he has run his own company, Designers Inc., a direct marketing studio.  For the last three years he has also been a consultant and creative director for the direct marketing agency, HJC New Media, with big name not-for-profit clients in Canada and the U.S. He provides direct marketing consultant and creative services for clients in Canada and the USA.  He has worked on a wide variety of accounts from the arts to retail.

He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Bombay University, Degree in Art, cum laude, from the J.J. School of Art (Bombay) and a graduate diploma from the Hochschüle fur Gestaltung (Germany), which was fashioned after the Bauhaus Design School.

Billy has won over 80 awards including 11 RSVP awards, a Gold Andy, the coveted Clio Award, Marketing Magazine’s Gold and the Cannes Festival’s prestigious Golden Lion and numerous Bessie awards. He has also judged many award shows including CMA’s RSVP awards show for several years. He sits on the Board of Directors for the non-profit organization Change Canada Foundation and the Communications Committee of Integra Foundation.

He writes a monthly column called ‘Direct & Personal’ for Direct Marketing News and has been teaching ‘direct marketing’ at Humber for the last five years.