Andrew Ballen

Andrew Craig Ballen is an American digital media and China millennial marketing expert, consumer advocate and entrepreneur. Ballen holds the distinction of being first American to produce, host and syndicate his own TV series in China. He is the founder and CEO of AVD Digital Media, headquartered in Shanghai, China. AVD Digital Media is a venturebacked innovation hub that created Chinas seminal interactive invideo ad messaging systems.

Ballen was born in New York. He is the son of Belizean and Jamaican parents and was raised by his father Patrick, a surgeon, and his stepmother, Naomi a nurse in Greensboro, North Carolina. Ballen left home at ageto attend Hargrave Military Academy, in Chatham, VA. During Ballens Senior year at Hargrave, he became the first person of color in school history to become Battalion Commander, thus achieving the Academys highest rank, Cadet Colonel. Ballen majored in Political Science and International Relations at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He later attended Duke University Law School, in Durham, North Carolina. Ballen left Duke after two years, unsatisfied with the constraints of a legal education.

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