Clay Knight
Clay attended Texas Tech where he was a Design Communications major. During this time, he studied fine arts in Florence and design in London. Clay's inherent entrepreneurial abilities were first put to use at a software start-up in Austin, Texas, beginning in 2001, when Clay and five others built Whole Security, a company that developed the Internet security industry's first behavioral-based detection module for malicious threats. Whole Security eventually employed more than 85 people before being acquired by Symantec in 2005.
Clay wore a variety of hats during this experience, and was extremely instrumental in developing the Whole Security product brand, which ultimately legitimized their ground-breaking tool that companies such as Ebay and Bank of America soon put to use.
Clay believes technology, industry knowledge, and good design can all peacefully co-exist. That these are the key elements that afford opportunities for creative breakthroughs in communication today. His business philosophy is in sync with his approach to design-both are refreshingly simple yet always innovative.
Clay wanted to start a different kind of ad agency-one that incorporated technology seamlessly into a brand. Not something that was outsourced somewhere, never quite clicking with other communications. He co-founded dib creative in March of 2007 to build such an agency; one that had web and technology in its DNA combined with strong traditional advertising capabilities to create a new breed of agency.
Clay Knight
214.446.7900
cknight@dibcreative.com
