Damian Bradfield

{{Short description|British businessman|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| education = London School of Economics

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| employer = WeTransfer

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Damian Bradfield (born 29 March 1977{{cite tweet |user=yizmo |number=714810120564305920 |date=29 March 2016 |title=@djbradfield Congrats Damien! Happy Birthday today! }}{{cite web |url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/E-656KinnhxgFl8tLb9ToOlAYJ0/appointments |publisher=Companies House |title=Damian BRADFIELD - Personal Appointments |access-date=2020-01-26}}) is a British businessman. He is the Chief Creative Officer and a founding shareholder of the file-transfer service WeTransfer.{{cite news |last=Sisserian |first=Chris |title="Throwing rocks at the Google bus"—Bookclub with WeTransfer's Damian Bradfield |url=https://sifted.eu/articles/bookclub-wetransfer/ |newspaper=Sifted |date=30 October 2019 |access-date=26 November 2019 }}

Bradfield was born in Canterbury, Kent in England. He attended Kent College and then the London School of Economics.{{cite news |last=Holmes |first=Barry J. |url=https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/companies/article/damian-bradfield-the-wetransfer-boss-who-ships-1bn-files-a-month-wbm2bq3lz |title=Damian Bradfield — the WeTransfer boss who ships 1bn files a month |newspaper=The Sunday Times |date=24 June 2018 |access-date=26 November 2019 }}

After graduating from LSE, Bradfield worked for Gucci Group and Stella McCartney before moving onto a career in advertising in London.{{cite web |url=https://www.thegeniuslist.com/interview/damian-bradfield/ |title=Damian Bradfield—Entrepreneur & Branding Specialist |last= |first= |date= |website=The Genius List |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}} In 2005, he began working for the agency J. Walter Thompson (JWT). He relocated to Amsterdam to work in the JWT office there, but spent much of his time in Moscow working for one of the agency's largest clients. In 2010, Bradfield left JWT and established his own design studio, Present Plus, with Dutch entrepreneur Nalden.{{cite news |last=Lunden |first=Ingrid |title=Dropbox rival WeTransfer acquires Present Plus to boost product and design teams |url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/10/wetransfer-present-plus/|publisher=TechCrunch |date=10 March 2016 |access-date=26 November 2019 }} There they created the wallpaper app Kuvva.{{cite web |url=https://thenextweb.com/eu/2011/04/29/kuvva-launches-to-add-style-to-your-twitter-profile/ |title=Kuvva launches to add style to your Twitter profile |last=Tan |first=Francis |date=9 April 2011 |publisher=TNW }}

In 2016, Bradfield relocated from Amsterdam to California to set up WeTransfer's U.S. headquarters in Venice, Los Angeles, closer to the company's core client base. He has been instrumental in shaping the company's policy in support of the creative and arts community.{{cite news |last=Budds |first=Diana |date=12 October 2017 |title=WeTransfer's Plan To Disrupt The Creative Process |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90146204/wetransfer-made-file-sharing-simple-can-it-do-the-same-for-the-whole-creative-process |work=Fast Company }}{{cite web |url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-wetransfers-innovative-approach-promoting-creatives |title=WeTransfer's Innovative Approach to Promoting Creatives |last=Lesser |first=Casey |date=8 November 2017 |publisher=Artsy }} In July 2017, Bradfield, in his capacity as WeTransfer president, offered a $10,000 "gift" "to start something" to any of the 173 employees laid off at SoundCloud.{{cite news |last=Shead |first=Sam |date=27 July 2017 |title=Laid off SoundCloud employees are being offered $10,000 from WeTransfer |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/laid-off-soundcloud-employees-are-being-offered-10000-to-join-wetransfer-2017-7/ |newspaper=Business Insider |access-date=26 November 2019 }}{{cite news |last=Deahl |first=Dani |title=WeTransfer offers $10,000 to every laid-off SoundCloud employee so they can 'develop great things' |url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/26/16042412/wetransfer-laid-off-soundcloud-employees |newspaper=The Verge |date=26 July 2017 |access-date=26 November 2019 }}

Bradfield is chairman of the University of the Underground and The Supporting Act,{{cite web |url=http://universityoftheunderground.org/damian-bradfield |title=Damian Bradfield |publisher=University of the Underground |access-date=2 December 2019 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.thesupportingact.org/ |title=Homepage |last= |first= |date= |website= |publisher=The Supporting Act |access-date= |quote=}} and a trustee of the Sarabande Foundation. He is a member of the Champions of Change Global Tech group and a director of Tour De Moon Ltd., a free touring public festival happening in the UK in 2022.{{cite web |url=https://championsofchangecoalition.org/groups/champions-of-change-global-tech/ |title=Champions of Change Global Tech |last= |first= |date= |website= |publisher=Champions of Change Coalition |access-date=March 17, 2022 |quote=}}{{cite web |url=https://tourdemoon.com/damian-bradfield |title=Damian Bradfield |last= |first= |date= |website= |publisher=Tour de Moon |access-date=March 17, 2022 |quote=}} He is the host of the podcast Influence. He is the author of the 2019 Penguin book, The Trust Manifesto: What You Need to Do to Create a Better Internet,{{cite web |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/307675/the-trust-manifesto/9780241369845.html |title=The Trust Manifesto |publisher=Penguin Books |access-date=26 November 2019 }} and the co-author of the 2021 book Los años de internet (The Internet Years).{{cite news |last= |first= |date=December 3, 2021 |title=Los peligros de los algoritmos y metadatos, expuestos a través de un cómic |url=https://www.abc.es/cultura/abci-peligros-algoritmos-y-metadatos-expuestos-traves-comic-202112031413_noticia.html |work=ABC |location= |access-date=}}

Bradfield is married with two children and currently resides in Santa Monica, California.