Drew Sykes is the Director of Content Production and Community Management at Ignite Social Media in Raleigh, NC, where he leads a team of marketing professionals working together to create scroll-stopping content for the world to see. Before landing at Ignite, he worked in higher education marketing at his alma mater, NC State, where he started as the university’s first-ever social media specialist and worked his way up to the role of Director of Social Media. Drew’s mantra at NC State was that he wanted people to see the content they created and say, “Wow. A university did that?” No matter where he goes, his number one goal is to move people with what he helps create. 

Outside of work, he’s a husband, a dad of two boys, a doggy dad, and he’s one of the world’s biggest John Mayer fans (“There’s a Mayer song for everything.” — Drew). He calls himself “Clark Kent nice with a Superman heart,” and believes that if more people lived like Ted Lasso, the world would be a better place.