Ben Foster is a Vice President and Digital Strategist for Ketchum. In this role, he provides strategic guidance on Integrated New Media for clients including ConAgra Foods, Purina, FedEx, Kimberly Clark, and Kellogg’s.

Ben also teaches at DePaul University in the Graduate Program at the College of Communications as an Adjunct Faculty member.

Prior to joining Ketchum, Ben was the Senior Strategy and Content Manager for Social Networking. At Allstate, he helped create Allstate’s Social Media group and provided strategic leadership to Social Media initiatives related to Allstate’s vision of reinventing protection and retirement for the consumer. Before joining Allstate, Ben was a management consultant specializing in innovation strategy with Kuczmarski and Associates. Ben began his career at GE Capital where he worked for numerous GE businesses across Europe and the United States in Technology Strategy and Six Sigma.

Ben holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in Economics and Finance and a BS from Miami University in Marketing and Management Information Systems. He is also a GE Certified Six Sigma Black Belt.