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Dawn Clark is senior vice president and executive creative director, leading Starbucks Global Design Studios creative and concepts teams. Dawn is responsible for creating a unified vision and strategy for global brand expression and experience through a broad range of creative disciplines including store concept design, architecture, industrial design, art, graphic design and product design.
Dawn rejoined Starbucks in October 2023 after serving as vice president of International Store Design + Global Concepts from 2010-2012, leading the creation of the design studios across Starbucks global markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Dawn’s career includes decades of practice with international architecture and design firms and with brands including Nike, Seibu and Sogo of Japan, Harrods of London, and Harvey Nichols. She also she served as Senior Vice President of store design, construction and visual merchandising at Nordstrom and was most recently Director, Design & Construction at Amazon.
Dawn studied Art & Architecture at the University of Oregon and University of California at Berkeley, culminating in a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture from the University of Colorado Boulder. Dawn is a licensed Architect and LEED AP accredited professional. She enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, and cold-water surfing on the Washington coast. She also loves to immerse herself in the global creative culture of art and design and has a lifelong practice of photography and painting. Her favorite Starbucks beverages are ever evolving, although she developed an enduring love of Sumatra coffee beans while earning her Coffee Master black apron.
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Starbucks ethically sources and roasts high-quality arabica coffee. They are known as the leading roaster and retailer of specialty coffee globally. Starbucks purchases, roasts, and serves award-winning coffee to its millions of customers. Their food and beverage offerings include Italian-style espresso beverages, cold blended beverages, seasonal drinks, hot breakfast, lunch, snacks, a bakery, and premium teas. Additionally, they sell merchandise like tumblrs and mugs as well as gift cards for special occasions. In some stores around the world, they sell alcoholic drinks. In everything they do, they always live by their mission: to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time. Founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker, Starbucks began as a single store front in Pike Place Market. Originally, they sourced their beans from Peet's Coffee & Tea. Eventually, Alfred Peet stopped supplying his own beans and began to train a new Roastmaster for the company. Following this transition, they sold the company in the 1980's to Howard Schultz who had Italian Coffeehouse aspirations. Originally a coffee bean store, Howard set out to make Starbucks an espresso-based coffeeshop and led much of the expansion of the franchise. With shifts in leadership over time, a decade was spent growing market share and defining corporate social responsibility. Starbucks went on acquire several operations as part of their strategy such as Seattle's Best Coffee, Torrefazione Italia, and The Coffee Connection. Today, Starbucks operates in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, and Asia with about 32,000 stores worldwide.