Editor, Advertising Age

Abbey Klaassen is the editor of Ad Age and responsible for the editorial operations of the world's leading source of news, insights and analysis about the marketing and media industries. In addition to a weekly print publication, a daily Web site and a collection of targeted newsletters, Ad Age also runs an Insights division of in-depth white papers and quarterly trends reports on creativity, mobile and in-store marketing, a DataCenter with decades of information on the top agencies, ad spenders and media companies, and a booming events business.

She was previously Ad Age's Digital Editor, covering everything from the corporate Web giants, search marketing, social networking and digital media, always with an emphasis on their business models and impact on marketers.

Since joining Ad Age in January 2005, Abbey has also covered cable TV, radio and out-of-home advertising. Prior to Ad Age, Abbey worked for MSP Communications in Minneapolis. She lives in Brooklyn.

President, Research and Media Development, NBC

Alan Wurtzel is the President of Research for NBC Universal. He is responsible for the planning, development and analysis of all audience, program, and marketing research for the NBC Television Network, the news and information cable networks MSNBC and CNBC, the entertainment cable networks USA, Syfy, Bravo and Oxygen, and the Telemundo Spanish language network. He is also responsible for all research in support of NBC Universal's digital initiatives.

In addition, Wurtzel leads the company's Broadcast Standards & Practices Department, which oversees program content and advertising and commercial clearance for the network. He joined NBC Universal in May 1999.

Throughout his tenure, Wurtzel has led numerous research initiatives for the company, including measuring the effectiveness of television ads viewed on a DVR, and launching the TAMi, or Total Audience Measurement Index, a compilation of data designed to measure the total exposure to any one program across multiple media platforms. Wurtzel has also conduced extensive research around the Beijing and Vancouver Olympics, taking advantage of the unique scope and duration of the games to gain unprecedented insight into consumer cross-platform behavior. Additionally, Wurtzel helped spearhead the creation of the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM), a group of leading US television content providers, media agencies and advertisers who joined forces in 2009 to help promote research innovation and explore new ways to measure audiences across traditional and new media.

He was named a "Media Maven" by Advertising Age in 2009 for his work with cross-platform measurement and was selected by Mediaweek as one of the "Most Influential Executives Shaping the Future of Media" in 2007.

Wurtzel holds a Ph.D in mass communications from New York University. He and his wife, Susan, and their two daughters, Joanna and Caroline, reside in New York.

Global CEO, Arnold Worldwide
Global Chief Strategy Officer, Havas Worldwide

Andrew is Global CEO of Arnold Worldwide, which represents some of the world's most renowned brands, including The Hershey Company, Jack Daniel's, McDonald's, New Balance, Ocean Spray and Volvo. Andrew leads Arnold's 1,200 employees across the network's 15 offices. His career in marketing spans nearly two decades and includes hands-on experience in almost every marketing discipline and across multiple product and service categories. He has a unique understanding of marketing gained through work on the client side, in consulting and for global communications agencies, including Euro RSCG, where he served as New York Co-President, FutureBrand and McCann-Erickson.

As Global Chief Strategy Officer of Havas Worldwide, Andrew develops, communicates and executes strategic initiatives for the holding company's agencies and clients.

Andrew has been selected for AAF's Advertising Hall of Achievement (2010), Business Journal's "40 Under 40" (2010) and Crain's New York Business's "40 Under 40" (2009), and is the co-author of two marketing books, Consumed: Rethinking Business in the Era of Mindful Spending and Good for Business.

Chief Mergers and Acquisitions Reporter, The New York Times

Andrew Ross Sorkin is the Chief Mergers and Acquisitions reporter for The New York Times. Mr. Sorkin was appointed to that position in July 2000 after having served as the newspaper's European mergers and acquisitions reporter based in London since July 1999. He is also the founding editor of DealBook, an online daily financial report published by The Times. In addition, Mr. Sorkin is an Assistant Editor of Business and Finance News, helping guide and shape the paper's coverage.

Over the years, Mr. Sorkin has broken news of many major mergers and acquisitions in the pages of The Times. He has broken news of deals including Chase's acquisition of JP Morgan and Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Compaq. He also led The Times's coverage of Vodafone's $183 billion hostile bid for Mannesmann, resulting in the world's largest takeover ever.

As a leading voice about Wall Street and corporate America, Mr. Sorkin is a frequent guest on national television and radio programs as well as a lecturer at universities across the country. He has appeared on NBC's "Today Show," PBS' "The Charlie Rose Show," PBS' "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," NPR's "Talk of the Nation" and many others. He has also served as a guest host on CNN's "American Morning" and CNBC's "Squawk Box."

Mr. Sorkin is the author of "Too Big to Fail: How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves." He won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2004 for breaking the news of IBM's historic sale of its PC business to Lenovo. He was also a finalist in the commentary category for his DealBook column. He also won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award for breaking news in 2005 and again in 2006. In 2007, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader.

CEO, Optimedia US

Antony Young is based in New York and heads Optimedia International US Inc., a Publicis Groupe:VivaKi full-service media agency that specializes in strategy. Antony has spent sixteen years at Publicis Groupe in a number of key executive management roles in Asia/Pacific, Europe and the US.

Antony has been responsible for developing strategy and executing media campaigns for some of the most influential global brands, including Sony, Coca-Cola, T-Mobile, L'Oréal, McDonald's, Procter & Gamble and Toyota.

He recently authored "Brand Media Strategy," the first book in the US to be published on communications planning. It shares his insights on developing media strategies in a Google and Facebook era.

Some past career achievements include launching one of the first media agency networks in China, which became the #1 in that market in terms of billings. He was also a founding partner and CEO of independent digital marketing start up AdXplorer in Asia. Prior to transferring to the US he was CEO of their UK agency.

In 2010, Antony was a winner of the 4A's Transformers competition, presenting his industry-transforming idea at 4A's Transformation 2010.

Antony currently writes a column on media strategy for Advertising Age.

Co-Founder, TRA

Bill Harvey has led the way in media research with special emphasis on the New Media. Bill invented the Area of Dominant Influence, or ADI, an audience-based definition of television markets that Nielsen emulated as the DMA.

Founder of Next Century Media and New Electronic Media Science; Bill was the first to turn settop data into TV audience data to media research standards, and is a leader of standard-setting processes in media measurement through the ARF, 4A's and ANA. He is a former executive at Arbitron, Interpublic, Grey Advertising, and OpenTV, and the inventor of addressable commercials and passive peoplemeter concepts, developing first automated marketing mix modeling system for General Foods.

Harvey is one of the co-founders of TRA, the first company to be able to measure the sales effects of regular TV advertising on an ongoing basis. After launching TRA's massive national sample in mid 2009, the company has created an enormous stir within the media industry and has attracted a blue chip clientele of leaders such as Procter & Gamble, General Mills, CBS, and many others. TRA is one of five companies chosen by the Consortium for Innovation in Media Measurement (CIMM) for development of the future measurement services for the media industry.

President, CEO & Founder, Horizon Media
Chairman, 4A's Media Policy Committee

With over 30 years experience in media negotiation and account management, Bill Koenigsberg's role at Horizon begins with setting leadership standards and enforcing the client service philosophy, the hallmarks of Horizon's success. Bill is the founder of Horizon Media, Inc., which he started in 1989. With billings of $2.6 billion, the company is the largest and fastest-growing independent media agency in the world. Horizon was named the 2010 Media Agency of the Year by both AdAge and Adweek/Mediaweek/Brandweek and was selected as one of the world's most innovative ad/mktg firms in 2011 by Fast Company.

Since its inception, Bill has grown Horizon from a fledgling agency which began on one floor of a New York office building to a marketing powerhouse headquartered in a state-of-the-art 150,000 square foot office in Hudson Square with nearly 600 employees. The company represents more than 90 clients and has additional offices in Los Angeles, San Diego and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Bill is regularly sought out by the industry press for his authoritative insights into marketing and media trends and is often asked to sit on industry conference panels. Most recently, he was named Chairman of the 4A's Media Policy Committee and is a Director-at-Large of the 4A's Board of Directors. Bill is the only person to receive the prestigious Advertising Age Media Maven Award twice, in 2001 and 2010. In 2006, he was honored as Media Executive of the Year by Mediaweek and was featured as one of the industry's top 50 most influential executives in the business in the annual Mediaweek 50 report in 2008, 2009 and 2010. In addition, he was honored as one of the 21 most intriguing people in the media industry by Min Online in 2009.

Throughout his media career, Bill has had extensive experience with clients across a broad variety of industries. It has been Bill's proactive, hands-on approach with these clients that has helped forge the strong relationships that have paved the way for Horizon's growth and success. His belief in being immersed in each clients' business is the reason why Bill and Horizon Media have attracted and retained such blue chip clients as GEICO, NBC Universal Broadcast Group, Google, Kraft Foods, Jack in the Box restaurants, The A&E Networks, Cadbury, White Wave, Corona and Crown Imports brands as well as numerous others.

Bill plays an active role as board member on several industry committees including the Four A's Media Policy Committee and the International Radio and Television Society Board. He is a Chairman of the Board for Columbus Media International, Horizon's sister global media services company that provides international coverage across 60 territories worldwide including North America, Latin America, Europe, Russia and Asia Pacific. In 2010, he was awarded the Reisenbach Foundation's "Distinguished Citizen Award" for his contributions to the organization's goal of creating a safer New York. Bill serves on the board of City Harvest and led Horizon in making a $250,000 donation to the organization as part of Horizon's 20th anniversary celebration. In 2011, he will be honored by City Harvest at a gala event for his longstanding commitment and support of the organization.

Prior to the establishment of Horizon Media, in 1989, he was EVP of Media General Inc.'s Media Services Division. He also held positions at advertising agencies and media services companies.

Bill graduated from The University of Miami with a Bachelor of Business Administration. A New Yorker all his life, Bill currently resides in Manhattan with his wife Jessica and has three children. For leisure, Bill enjoys playing tennis, skiing and the beach.

President and Chief Executive Officer, Association of National Advertisers, Inc.

Bob Liodice was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the ANA (Association of National Advertisers, Inc.) in 2003. Bob was previously Executive Vice President, responsible for member relations and business development with a primary focus on strengthening relationships with ANA member companies and broadening the membership base. He joined the ANA as Senior Vice President in 1995.

Prior to the ANA, he was Vice President of Global Marketing and Sales for Grupo Televisa, a major worldwide broadcaster. Previous experience includes more than 15 years in marketing and financial management at Kraft General Foods, including having served as category marketing manager for the Jell-O and Bakers brands. He is a member of the boards of directors of The Advertising Council, Advertising Research Foundation, National Advertising Review Council, Partnership for a Drug-Free America, Advertising Educational Foundation and an executive committee member of the World Federation of Advertisers.

Bob holds Bachelor's Degrees in Accounting and Management and an MBA in Finance from New York University.

Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Horizon Media

Brad Adgate has 30+ years experience in media research. For the past 13 years, he has been Senior Vice President, Director of Research at Horizon Media. Prior to joining Horizon Media, Brad had worked in the media research departments at Grey Advertising, Backer & Spielvogel and Saatchi & Saatchi. Brad also held positions in ad sales research at several top-tier cable networks and TV and radio syndication companies.

Brad has authored Horizon Media's ongoing newsletter, On the Horizon, which covers in-depth analysis of various industry topics. In addition, he provides audience estimates, trends, POVs, presentations, white papers, and an annual program development and upfront book to Horizon Media's clients. Some of these comments can be found on his blog bradgateblog.com.

Brad is sought after almost daily by the media for his industry insights. Brad has also given numerous presentations on the media industry, has participated in frequent industry related panels and several industry advisory councils.

In 2002 Brad was named a "Media Maven" by Advertising Age. For several years he has been named the most quoted executive in the industry by Advertising Age in the publication's annual "Media Talk" survey. Also in 2006, Brad was named "Media All Star" in the research category by Mediaweek. Most recently Advertising Age named Brad as one of "25 Media People You Should Follow on Twitter," @badgate.

Founder, SourceMartin

Brian is one of the advertising industry's foremost thought leaders. With a career that has spanned 25+ years at some of the best-known advertising agencies and client-side engagements, and in roles that have placed him at the center of communications innovation, Brian has a unique perspective on the challenges of today's communications marketplace.

Brian is the Founder of SourceMartin, a management consultancy for creative marketing organizations. SourceMartin provides its clients with strategic thinking about contemporary agency management issues. The firm's clients include Sony, AT&T, Citibank, L.L. Bean, MetLife and many others.

Brian's career has included senior management roles in account management and business development at agencies such as Deutsch, KB&P, Bozell, and most recently, JWT. His client experience includes companies such as JetBlue, Target, Bank of America and Verizon Wireless. Brian also ran marketing for Qtopics, a successful early stage Internet polling company.

He also is a regular speaker at marketing and business conferences.

Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Johnson & Johnson

Brian began his Johnson & Johnson career in 1980 as an assistant product director with McNeil Consumer Products, then a small but fast-growing over-the-counter drug company. He had the incredibly good fortune to have been Product Director on the TYLENOL Brand during the 1982 and 1986 tampering incidents. It was at this early stage in his career that he saw the principles of the Johnson & Johnson Credo hard at work. After taking on increased responsibilities at McNeil as Vice President of Marketing, Brian was appointed President of Personal Products, North America in 1993. In 1994, he was appointed President of McNeil Consumer, by that time the world's largest OTC drug company.

In 1999, Brian was promoted to Company Group Chairman for the worldwide OTC business. Later in 1999, he was appointed to Johnson & Johnson's Executive Committee as Worldwide Chairman of Consumer Pharmaceuticals & Nutritionals.

In July 2004, Brian was appointed to a new position, Corporate Vice President, Corporate Affairs reporting to the Chairman of the Board. The primary role of this position is to protect and build Johnson & Johnson's corporate equity. Brian has responsibility for Johnson & Johnson's Global Marketing Group as well as for Corporate Contributions and had responsibility for the Corporation's sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics. He is also a member of the Board of Directors Public Policy and Affairs Committee.

Brian, a graduate of Rutgers College, also holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is active at Rutgers as Vice Chairman of the Rutgers University Board of Overseers and past Chairman of the Ad Council. Brian is a Board member of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) Foundation.

He resides in Princeton, NJ with his wife, Lois and has two children, D.J. and Michael.

Partner, Co-Chief Creative Director, Smith Brothers Agency

Bronson is a highly recognized creative director and art director who got his first taste of advertising at Della Femina McNamee/Pittsburgh and Young & Rubicam/Paris. After Paris, Bronson joined brother Lindsey at Avrett Free Ginsberg/NY to work on campaigns for Meow Mix, Johnnie Walker Black Label, Crayola, Clairol, Mistic Beverages and George Dickel Whiskey.

Before co-founding Smith Brothers Agency, Bronson served as Vice President, Chief Creative Officer at US Interactive (USI) where he supervised and produced corporate identities and ad campaigns for adidas, Columbia House, Comedy Central, The National Football League, Sprint Business, RCA, Deloitte & Touche and Martha Stewart.

Bronson attended Ohio Wesleyan University and Parsons School of Design.

Partner, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz

Candice Kersh is a partner in the Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations Group at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. Ms. Kersh represents many leading advertising and promotions agencies, as well as some of the country's largest advertisers. Ms. Kersh's experience and creativity combine to make her one of the nation's go-to lawyers for all issues of advertising and marketing law, including drafting and negotiating agency-client agreements, structuring branded entertainment deals, advising on emerging technology transactions and platforms, and helping major brands overcome legal hurdles to advance some of the world's most celebrated and innovative advertising campaigns.

She practices in all areas of advertising, marketing and promotion law, and regularly advises on copy review, network clearance, talent, music and license agreements, agency-client agreements, advertising challenges, sweepstakes and promotions, copyrights and trademarks, and new and creative ways of getting paid for creative work.

Ms. Kersh has also acted as production counsel on independent feature films, and negotiated agreements for motion picture writers, directors and performers. She handles celebrity endorsement deals, corporate sponsorship agreements, product placements, and licensing arrangements with studios and music companies. In 2008, she became the first lawyer ever named to the prestigious Advertising Age "Women to Watch" list; and has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business, and the Legal 500 and named a New York area "Super Lawyer" each of the past few years by Law and Politics magazine.

Executive Vice President and Chief Legal, Government and Corporate Affairs Officer, Leo Burnett Worldwide

Carla is EVP, Chief Legal, Government & Corporate Affairs Officer of Leo Burnett Worldwide, with responsibility throughout the Leo Burnett and Arc global networks.

Carla is recognized as an authority on advertising industry regulatory issues including commercial speech, advertising directed to children, digital and privacy issues. Carla organized the first global summit of industry self-regulators; was first to ask to meet with the White House to discuss internet marketing issues; and has often addressed international audiences. She is a passionate advocate of the industry, advertising self regulation and freedom of commercial speech being a NARC Board member, a past NARC Chairman, and having been involved in the creation of the European Advertising Standards Alliance.

Carla is a member of the 4A's Government Relations Committee; past Chairman of AAF; VP of the IAA; Vice Chairman of the USCIB Marketing committee; and sits on several civic and charitable boards. Carla was named Chicago Ad Woman of the Year, and has received industry honors including the Chicago Advertising Federation Silver Medal and the AAF Barton A. Cummings Gold Medal. She is an active member of The Chicago Network, The Economic Club of Chicago, and several bar associations. She has a BA, JD, and an honorary Doctorate of Law from DePaul University.

Digital and eCommerce Business Leader for Beauty and Grooming, The Procter & Gamble Company

Charlie Chappell currently leads Procter & Gamble's Global efforts to leverage Digital Marketing & eCommerce in the company's $27 Billion Beauty & Grooming division including brands such as Gillette, Braun, Olay, Cover Girl, Secret, Old Spice, Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana Fragrances, Clairol & Pantene. His emphasis is on discovering new capabilities to leverage Digital marketing and driving their rapid adaption across all Beauty & Grooming brands.

Charlie is a 10+ year global marketing veteran of the P&G Beauty & Grooming business having worked in Hair Care (Pantene, Herbal Essences) and Personal Care (Gillette, Old Spice, Safeguard & Camay) both in the US and Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a Chemical Engineering degree from Purdue University.

President and General Manager, AMC

As President and General Manager of AMC, Charlie Collier oversees every aspect of the AMC brand, spearheading the multiplatform network, which is available on-air, online, on demand and via mobile applications. Collier has led AMC since 2006, first as Executive Vice President and General Manager and as AMC's President and General Manager since 2008.

Collier has been the driving force behind the network's continued evolution and success. Under his leadership, AMC has garnered critical acclaim and record-breaking ratings driven by its breakout originals and inventive movie franchises. In 2010, AMC became the only network ever to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series/Drama three years in a row ("Mad Men" 2008–2010). AMC also reigns as the only cable network to win triple consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series ("Mad Men" 2008–2010). AMC also received the Peabody Award for television excellence two years in a row, first for "Mad Men" (2008) and then for "Breaking Bad" (2009). During Collier's tenure, AMC's digital arm has also delivered tremendous growth with AMCtv.com's Web traffic experiencing exponential gains, the business expanding across multiple digital platforms, and acquisitions including critical favorites Filmsite.org and Filmcritic.com.

A veteran cable network executive, Collier joined AMC from Court TV (now truTV) with a track record of driving brand, revenue and business growth. At Court TV, he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of advertising sales where he more than quintupled its revenue from national ad sales, dramatically improved its position within the industry, and played a key role in broadening the network's appeal beyond courtroom programming and into entertainment programming in the investigation genre. During his time with Court TV, Collier's focus was on the union of content and sales. Through the creation of industry-oriented, ROI-based research programs, he worked with leading industry clients to improve the measurement of audience engagement and advertising effectiveness on television.

Prior to Court TV, Collier held senior roles at Oxygen Media, A&E Networks and TeleRep.

Collier earned his Master in Business Administration degree from Columbia University and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Bucknell University. He is a Cable Advertising Bureau (CAB) board member. Among other accolades, Collier was honored with the 2009 Vanguard Award for Young Leadership and named to Crain's 40 Under 40 class of 2009.

Collier is also involved in civic activities, among them a senior board position at CancerCare, an organization devoted to helping not just cancer patients but also those around them touched by the disease. He is married and has four children.

Co-Founder and CEO, appssavvy

Chris co-founded appssavvy to rethink the relationship between the delivery and reception of advertising. appssavvy partners with leading web publishers and developers, including Zynga, LivingSocial, and IAC, to uncover what people are doing across the Web. Understanding the social activity that people engage in online is what enables appssavvy, and the brands and agencies that it works with, to execute truly social and engaging online advertising campaigns.

Today, appssavvy is a platform that connects people and brands through social activity, and has delivered upwards of 500 campaigns for brands like Coca-Cola, Kimberly-Clark, Lexus, Nestle, Purina, Sony Pictures and Target, among others. appssavvy has rapidly grown into a clear leader in the social marketing space with more than 40 professionals making-up one of Crain's New York's Best Places to Work and one of Advertising Age's Best Places to Work in Marketing and Media.

Chris is responsible for establishing the company's position within the social marketing landscape and is a frequent speaker on social and mobile media topics at industry conferences, including ad:tech, IAB, iMedia and OMMA events, among others. He is Co-Chair of the IAB Social Media Committee dedicated to helping develop and expand the user-generated content space as a viable advertising platform and is involved in SMAC (Social Media Advertising Consortium). Chris is also a contributing author to publications, writing for outlets, including Advertising Age, digiday:DAILY, iMediaConnection, MediaPost and VentureBeat, in 2010 was a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award, and has been featured on CNBC as well as in numerous publications including The New York Times, BusinessWeek, and USA Today.

Prior to appssavvy, Chris was Global Vice President of Sales at Freewebs leading its initiative around widgets, the predecessor to apps. Previously, he was an early pioneer in the online, digital music industry developing sales strategies connecting music platforms, including Bolt Media, Digital Music Network and Music Vision with brands and agencies.

Chris graduated from the University of North Carolina Greensboro with a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Economics & Marketing and is based in New York City. Follow him on Twitter @appssavvyceo.

Chairman, Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Chief Strategist, MDC Partners
Chairman, 4A's

Chuck joined the Crispin Agency in 1988 as Creative Director and Partner after a long career as an award-winning freelance copywriter. The agency was renamed Crispin & Porter, and within three years it had doubled in size and been named as one of the top 15 creative shops in the country.

Today, the agency has approximately 1,200 people, with offices in Miami, Boulder, Toronto, Los Angeles, London and Gothenberg, Sweden. CP+B's clients include Microsoft, Burger King, Coke, Best Buy, Kraft, Gap, Domino's, and American Express. The agency has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Forbes, and Fast Company. In 2009, CP+B was named Agency of the Year by Advertising Age, Adweek and Creativity magazine and, in 2010, Advertising Age selected CP+B as Agency of the Decade.

In addition to his role at CP+B, Chuck is Chief Strategist for MDC Partners, CP+B's parent company. At MDC, Chuck identifies potential acquisitions and serves as a consultant to member agencies.

Chuck is a past Co-Chairman and current board member of Advertising Week in New York—North America's preeminent communications industry event—and is the current Chairman of the 4A's. Along with Martha Stewart and Michael Dell, he was named one of Inc. magazine's "Entrepreneurs We Love."

Chuck grew up in Minneapolis and graduated from the Journalism School at the University of Minnesota.

Founder and CEO, IfWeRanTheWorld

Cindy Gallop's background is brand building, marketing and advertising—she started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year.

She is the Founder and CEO of www.IfWeRanTheWorld.com, a Web meets world platform designed to turn good intentions into action one microaction at a time, which launched in beta with a demo at TED 2010, and of www.makelovenotporn.com, launched at TED 2009.

She acts as board advisor to a number of tech startups and consults, describing her consultancy approach as, "I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business."

Chief Operating Officer, Victors & Spoils

Claudia Batten is Co-Founder and COO of Victors & Spoils, the world's first advertising agency based on crowdsourcing principles. A corporate lawyer specializing in contract and technology law by trade, Claudia attained a strong background in the legal precepts that shape the ever-evolving technology industry early in her career. Through this she developed the techniques that make for an effective modern company in the digital space era.

She followed up her successful legal career by joining the founding team at Massive, a first-of-its-kind network for video game advertising. Within three years, Massive had bloomed into a full-scale advertising network which sold to Microsoft Corporation in 2006. Claudia continued with Massive through the acquisition, serving as Director of Partner Development, and played an integral role in helping the company scale the network.

The launch of Victors & Spoils in the autumn of 2009 made instant waves in the industry, marking the advent of a new era in regard to the perception of crowdsourcing within advertising. Claudia established the agency with ad industry veterans and alums of acclaimed agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, John Winsor and Evan Fry. The agency launch was groundbreaking, opening doors for industry creatives around the world. Victors & Spoils now works with CMOs at Fortune 500 companies and continues to turn heads as its clever output reaches the mainstream.

Founder and Creative Director, Team Epiphany

Coltrane Curtis is the Founder and Creative Director of Team Epiphany, a brand solutions agency that leverages the power of the global influencer celebrity to help big brands meet their business goals and challenges in a very competitive, fickle and unforgiving marketplace.

In seven years since its creation, Team Epiphany has been recognized in Inc. Magazine's 5000 fastest growing companies two years in a row. Coltrane has been honored as an individual, most recently being named Innovator of the Year by AdColor. He has been featured in Inc. Magazine, Advertising Age, and quoted in BizBash New York Magazine, Black Enterprise and Details, among many others.

Coltrane's unique talent for brand-building, strategic thinking, and program implementation is recognized by his clients, which include: Heineken, Timberland, EA Games, PepsiCo and Diageo. Through his strong peer relationships, Coltrane cultivates and sustains business and personal relationships with pop cultures most iconic celebrities including: Mos Def, Sean Combs, Rihanna, The Madden Brothers and Kanye West.

Co-Counder and CEO, shopkick Inc.

Cyriac Roeding is the Co-Founder and CEO of shopkick Inc., focused on bridging the physical retail and the interactive worlds through smartphones. shopkick was founded in 2009, and is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers's iFund, Reid Hoffman/Greylock, Ron Conway and Citi Growth Ventures. shopkick’s mobile shopping app, launched in August 2010, rose to the top of the App Store amongst 300,000 applications. It is the first program that rewards consumers simply for walking into stores, across shopkick's retail partners Best Buy, Target, Macy's, American Eagle, Sports Authority, Wet Seal and Simon Malls. Previously, Roeding spent a year at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence to identify next-generation cross-platform mobile and online venture concepts.

Prior, Cyriac was Founder and EVP of CBS Mobile. He launched CBS Corporation's mobile businesses across CBS Entertainment, CBS Sports, CBS News and the CW Network. In partnerships with technology start-ups, he created US industry firsts such as location-based mobile advertising, mobile video breaking news and sports alerts, and avatar-based mobile games tied to major TV shows. He grew CBS Sports Mobile into one of the Top Ten highest traffic ad-supported mobile Web sites in the US.

Prior to CBS, Cyriac was the Co-Founder of 12snap, a European mobile marketing and entertainment company with clients such as Coca-Cola, McDonald's, L'Oreal, adidas and MTV Europe. Before that, he developed growth strategies at McKinsey & Company for global media, software and high-tech players in Europe and in Silicon Valley.

Cyriac has received several industry honors, including the first Lion Awards for mobile concepts at the Cannes Lion Festival in France (in 2003 and 2004). In 2007 and 2008, Cyriac and his team received the only Emmy Award nominations for Mobile. For 2007, he was elected as Global and North American Chairman of the MMA, with 600 member companies worldwide.

Cyriac received a Master's Degree summa cum laude in engineering and business administration from Germany's Technical University of Karlsruhe, and studied Japanese management at Sophia University in Tokyo.

Executive Vice President and Executive Director of Client Services, Bernstein-Rein Advertising

Dave has served as the Executive Director of Client Services at Bernstein-Rein since he joined the agency in 1982 after early seasoning at top-ten agencies in his native Detroit, New York and Chicago. Under his leadership, B-R has multiplied more than 12 times with this significant growth coming from such major client brands as McDonald's, Wal-Mart, H&R Block, Blockbuster, Bayer and PetSmart, to name a few. Dave's active involvement with these and dozens of other B-R clients over the years includes every level of interest in the client's business—from sales on the floor to decisions behind the boardroom door.

He often touts the simple mantra, "Think like a brand, act like a retailer." He knows that this idea of combining strategic thinking with individual customer focus can be applied to almost any client in almost any industry—because he's done it. He is Co-Chairman of the 4A's New Business Development Committee and is Chairman of the Board of Governors of the 4A's Kansas City Council.

Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, US Federal Trade Commission

David C. Vladeck is the Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection. The Bureau works to protect consumers against unfair, deceptive, or fraudulent practices. The Bureau conducts investigations, sues companies and people who violate the law, develops rules to protect consumers, and educates consumers and businesses about their rights and responsibilities. The Bureau also collects complaints about consumer fraud and identity theft and makes them available to law enforcement agencies across the country.

While at the FTC, Vladeck is on leave from Georgetown University Law Center, where he is a Professor of Law. He has taught courses in federal courts, government processes, civil procedure, first amendment litigation, and co-directed the Institute for Public Representation, a clinical law program at the Law Center where he handled a broad array of civil rights, first amendment, and regulatory litigation.

Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty in 2002, Vladeck spent nearly 30 years with Public Citizen Litigation Group, serving as its Director from 1992 to 2002. He has handled a wide range of complex litigation, primarily in federal courts, including first amendment, health and safety, civil rights, class actions, preemption and open government cases. He has argued a number of First Amendment and civil rights cases before the United States Supreme Court, and more than 60 cases before the federal courts of appeal and state courts of last resort. Vladeck has testified frequently before Congress, advised Members of Congress on legal matters, and written on administrative law, preemption, first amendment, legal ethics, and access to justice issues. Vladeck received his undergraduate degree from New York University, his law degree from Columbia University School of Law, and an LL.M. degree from Georgetown University Law Center. In May 2008, Legal Times of Washington recognized him as one of 30 "champions of justice," and one of the 90 greatest lawyers in Washington, DC, over the past 30 years.

Founder and President, APPNATION

Drew Ianni is the Founder, President and Event Chairman of APPNATION, the leading independent global conference and expo focusing on the burgeoning app economy. Drew also serves as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of appnation.biz, the leading daily editorial publication covering the app economy which, will launch soon.

Prior to launching APPNATION, Drew was the Chairman, Senior Global Analyst, Event Master of Ceremonies, and Chair of the North American Advisory Board for ad:tech Expositions. As Chairman, Drew helped produce twenty worldwide ad:tech events in seven cities across three continents. In addition to helping drive record attendance and revenues to ad:tech's national events in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago, Drew also launched and helped build several international shows including ad:tech Sydney, ad:tech Shanghai, ad:tech Singapore, and ad:tech Miami (US Hispanic and Latin America).

Drew has acquired over fifteen years of agency, analyst and management experience in the digital advertising, media and marketing industries. Prior to ad:tech, Drew previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of atmosphere.BBDO, the digital marketing services division of BBDO North America, a division of Omnicom. In his role at BBDO, Drew worked with clients such as Cingular Wireless (now AT&T Wireless), Wrigley, General Electric, Visa, Frito Lay, and others and served on the Board of Directors of BBDO North America. Prior to BBDO, Drew worked as a sell-side equity research analyst (interactive services) at Lazard, Freres & Co. LLC, a prominent boutique investment bank. Drew found his way to Wall Street from a position at Jupiter Communications (now a unit of Forrester Research) in New York, where he served as an online advertising analyst and then regional research director for the Asia Pacific region.

A native of Silicon Valley, Drew attended Santa Clara University and graduated with a degree in Political Science and a General Business minor. Drew played baseball Santa Clara and was a three-time NCAA Division I Academic Achievement Award Winner. He currently resides in midtown Manhattan.

President and Chief Executive Officer, GSD&M

Duff Stewart is President and Chief Executive Officer of GSD&M. He is charged with ensuring the agency has the right people, resources and perspective to fulfill its purpose of doing whatever it takes to grow its clients' businesses.

Over the course of 20 years at GSD&M, Duff has held numerous leadership positions from Chief Operations Officer, Head of Account Management and as the three-time Effie award-winning group account director for clients including Fannie Mae, the Fannie Mae Foundation, The Steel Alliance, United Health Care and the United Health Foundation.

Prior to joining the agency, Duff worked in commercial real estate as vice president of marketing at Cornerstone Development.

Duff has been married for 22 years to his wife Liz and together they have three children. Duff holds a BA in economics from The University of Texas at Austin.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Eric Mower and Associates

Since 1968, Eric Mower has guided the privately-held advertising and public relations agency from its original staff of four to 219 professionals in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, NY; Atlanta, GA; Charlotte, NC; and Los Angeles, CA.

Eric is a long-time 4A's director and chairs its Washington, DC-based Government Relations Committee. He is also chair of the National Advertising Review Council (NARC), which oversees the advertising industry's self-regulatory structure. Eric currently serves as a vice-chair of The Business Council of New York State. He is an emeritus member of the Board of Trustees at Syracuse University, is a current member of its SI Newhouse School of Public Communications Advisory Council and is a past member of its Whitman School of Management Advisory Council. He is past president of the in' global network.

He has served in numerous other federal, state and city civic, philanthropic and professional organizations and has been recognized by many of them.

Eric received a BA in English (pre-law) (1966) from Syracuse University and a master's degree in mass communications from Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School of Public Communications (1968).

Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, ArcTouch

Prior to founding ArcTouch, Eric Shapiro founded and headed three successful companies: Moonware, Zero G Software (later acquired by Macrovision/Rovi) and Caustic Graphics, and has led engineering and product development teams at Accenture, Apple and Macrovision/Rovi. At all of these enterprises, Eric has built proven customer-centric software solutions for leading companies such as Adobe, Cisco and IBM.

January 2009, Eric founded ArcTouch along with Adam Fingerman. Based in San Francisco, ArcTouch is a top tier mobile app development studio with clients ranging from WalMart to Honeywell, Foot Locker, HarperCollins, G2 Interactive, R/GA, Isobar and more. ArcTouch offers complete custom development services ranging from user interface design to architecture, engineering, device certification and deployment in the app store.

ArcTouch delivers innovative mobile solutions to help your clients engage, interact and transact with their customers when and where they want.

Contributing Editor at Large, Time Inc.

Fareed Zakaria joined TIME in October 2010 as Contributing Editor at Large. He writes a regular column in the magazine and is a contributor to TIME.com. Dr. Zakaria is host of CNN's flagship international affairs program "Fareed Zakaria GPS," a Washington Post columnist and a New York Times bestselling author. He was described in 1999 by Esquire Magazine as "the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation."

Dr. Zakaria is the author of several books, including "The Future of Freedom" and "The Post-American World," both of them New York Times and international bestsellers, and both now in translation in over 30 languages.

Previously, Dr. Zakaria was the editor of Newsweek International, a post he held since October 2000, where he oversaw the magazine's editions abroad. He wrote a regular column for Newsweek, which also appeared in the international edition and regularly in the Washington Post. He also served as the managing editor of Foreign Affairs, the widely circulated journal of international politics and economics.

Dr. Zakaria has won several awards for his columns and cover essays. In 2010 he was awarded the National Magazine Award for his columns and commentary. In 2007, he was named one of the "top 100 public intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines. Dr. Zakaria serves on the board of Yale University, The Council on Foreign Relations, and Shakespeare and Company.

He received a BA from Yale and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. He lives in New York City with his wife, son and two daughters.

Co-Founder and CEO, eMarketer

Geoff Ramsey is one of the internet's most exciting digital marketing visionaries. As CEO and Co-Founder of eMarketer, Geoff is on the cutting edge of new research statistics, trends and best practices, covering every aspect of marketing in the digital age. He is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, BusinessWeek and Advertising Age.

A highly regarded speaker with an engaging presentation style, Geoff speaks at major digital, media and corporate events around the globe, including the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A's), Association of National Advertisers (ANA), Magazine Publishers of America (MPA), the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), The Conference Board, Economist Conferences, Google and Yahoo!.

Prior to starting eMarketer, Geoff worked at several large New York ad agencies, including TBWA and Ogilvy & Mather, where he ran multinational accounts for brands including Procter & Gamble, Kraft Foods, M&M Mars and AT&T.

Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Media Ratings Council, Inc.

George is the Executive Director and CEO of the Media Rating Council, Inc. (MRC), a not-for-profit industry organization created in 1963 at the request of the US Congress to assure high ethical and operational standards in audience measurement services.

Mr. Ivie's background includes over 25 years of experience in media research auditing, oversight and consulting. Prior to being appointed the Executive Director of the MRC in January 2000, George was a partner at Ernst & Young and their lead representative and advisor to the MRC, conducting all MRC audits and interacting with MRC management and member organizations.

George has a thorough knowledge of research best practices, operations, controls and information systems in Internet, Multimedia, Print, Radio and Television measurement services.

Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, comScore, Inc.

Mr. Fulgoni is Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of comScore Inc., the global leader in measuring the digital world.

From 1981–1998, Mr. Fulgoni was President/CEO of Information Resources, Inc., the leading supplier of scanner data to the CPG industry, where he grew the company's revenues at an annual rate of 40% to more than $500 million annually and its market value to $1.5 Billion. In 1996, IRI was named by Advertising Age magazine as the largest US market research firm.

In 1991 and again in 2004, Mr. Fulgoni was named Illinois Entrepreneur of the Year, the only person to have twice received that honor. In 2008, Mr. Fulgoni was inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, joining such luminaries as Leonard Lavin, founder of Alberto Culver and Gordon Segal, founder of Crate & Barrel. Also in 2008, Mr. Fulgoni was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

Educated in the UK, Mr. Fulgoni holds a BS degree (with honors) in Physics and an MA in Marketing.

Executive Vice President and Business Development Director, Optimedia US

Greg Kahn has worked in the media industry for nearly 15 years, and in 2010, as a result of his new business track record and entrepreneurial leadership, he earned the rare distinction of being named a Media Maven by Advertising Age and a Media All Star by AdweekMedia.

His diverse career experience includes launching independent film consultancy filmBuzz and holding executive positions at Showtime Networks, YouthStream Media and PriceWaterhouseCoopers' Kwasha Lipton Group.

Greg joined Optimedia in 2007 to run its strategic insights practice. During his tenure, he created the agency's first-of-its-kind metrics tool, Content Power Ratings, which is the first media currency to measure and aggregate total views and engagement for TV shows across on-air, online and mobile platforms. In addition to leading Optimedia’s new business department across the US, he oversees its growing office in Los Angeles.

Previously, he served as Vice President, Research and Strategy at Omnicom Group-owned PHD Media where he provided marketing strategy and media allocation consultation to Discovery Communications' 14 networks.

Greg holds a BA in Economics and French from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.

Chief Executive Officer, Concentric

Greg Silverman is the CEO of Concentric, a Predictive Marketing Analytics company. Greg has worked in a variety of industries—advertising, retailing, manufacturing, and franchising as a senior executive and business owner. Most recently, he was the Global Managing Director of Interbrand's Analytics and Valuation practice. Over the past decade, he has pioneered and invented many measurement and analytics systems throughout the world. He joined Concentric as CEO in 2010 as the founder of the company in partnership with Icosystem, an Analytics software company focused on solving complex business and governmental problems.

Senior Vice President, Cross-Industry Workflow, 4A's
Managing Director, Ad-ID LLC

Harold S Geller is Senior Vice President, Cross-Industry Workflow, 4A's and Managing Director, Ad-ID LLC—the industry standard for coding digital advertising assets which the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A's) created and manage.

Harold is a member of the boards of the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA), focused on the creation of timely, innovated business driven specifications and technologies for networked media workflows, and The PLUS Coalition, a non-profit initiative on a mission to simplify and facilitate the communication and management of image rights.

Harold speaks and writes extensively regarding digital workflow and metadata in advertising and media and is the co-author of two white papers. The first, "Content ID—The Elephant in the Room," discusses various content identification standards, their uses, and history while the second, "Are Fully Digital Workflows a Pipedream," looks at the issues related to system and process integration in the media/communications supply chain.

Harold's advertising career spans nearly 30 years, in the United States and Canada. He has worked in media buying/planning, account management, financial, and technology roles at MindShare, Ogilvy & Mather, and McCann Erickson, and the defunct Ted Bates and Foster Advertising.

Harold is a graduate of radio and television broadcasting from Seneca College.

Executive Chairman, Draftfcb

Howard Draft is a visionary entrepreneur who has navigated his way through multiple marketing revolutions.

In 2006, he was named Chairman and CEO of Draftfcb, an entity that brought together Draft and FCB, each an acknowledged industry leader. The resulting agency has more than 9,200 employees spanning 94 markets worldwide. Today, as executive chairman, Howard is responsible for setting the organization's strategic direction, managing key multinational client relationships, new business development and industry outreach.

Previously, Howard was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Draft. He was one of the agency's original 13 founders in 1978 and rose rapidly through the ranks, becoming Chairman and CEO within 10 years.

Through the years, marketers have turned to Howard for his thought leadership in the art and science of connecting with consumers. In 2010, he was inducted into the Direct Marketing Association Hall of Fame, honored with the Maxwell "Mac" Dane Award for Humanitarian Excellence by the UJA-Federation of New York and awarded the Chicago Advertising Federation's Silver Medal Lifetime Achievement Award.

President, GiantHydra

Ignacio Oreamuno runs IHAVEANIDEA, one of the world's largest online advertising communities with 12 million pages read a year. IHAVEANIDEA also organizes one of the most important advertising events in the advertising industry, Portfolio Night, which takes place simultaneously in over 40 cities and every continent around the world once a year.

Ignacio also runs the Tomorrow Awards, the only international advertising award show with no categories and with a focus specifically on the future of advertising.

In 2010, after three years of development, he launched Giant Hydra, a unique mass collaboration system designed specifically for advertising agencies and clients that tap into a global collaborative pool of creative talent to create ideas in quality and quantity in ways not possible before.

Chairman, Media Advisory Group

Jack Myers is a media economist and Chairman of Media Advisory Group, which invests in early-stage companies that advance and support the media and advertising business. Jack is the author of three books on advertising, writes the weekly Jack Myers Media Business Report and publishes JackMyersThinkTank.com and MediaBizBloggers.com.

For more than two decades, Jack has been among the media industry's leading visionaries and economic forecasters. He has advised more than 250 media companies, marketers and agencies on business transformation, revenue development and organizational best practices. Jack is the recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award for Journalism, won the Crystal Heart Award from the Heartland Film Festival, and has been nominated for both an Academy and Emmy Award.

Jack is the only industry analyst to have accurately predicted—more than 15 years ago—the media industry's current economic transformation, and he has been outspoken in advocating new business models for what he calls The Relationship Age, when society and business will shift from Industrial Age mass production, mass marketing and mass media to targeted, interpersonal and interactive communications.

His 1998 book, Reconnecting with Customers: Building Brands and Profits in The Relationship Age, is recognized as a leading-edge primer that anticipated today's dramatic industry transformation. His 1993 book, Adbashing: Surviving the Attacks on Advertising, was prescient in its long-term perspective on media and advertising industry challenges and growth opportunities. His third book, Virtual Worlds: Rewiring Your Emotional Future, was published in 2007 and focuses on the growing influence of social networks on young people.

Global Chief Executive Officer, UM

Encouraged by individuals with an appetite for strategic evolution, Jacki understands the value of partnerships. With more than 20 years of global media owner experience, Jacki has established herself as an expert in forging strategic relationships to enhance business performance.

The media-owner perspective gives Jacki an incredibly unique marketplace advantage. By having worked with some of the most respected brands—USA Today, Yahoo! and Martha Stewart—Jacki has an acute sensibility on the rapid transformation in consumer behavior, not to mention a clear understanding on how (and when) to engage media owners to provide customized value for clients. A believer in the collective power of the team, Jacki has managed top-performing integrated media and sales departments and has established revered alliances among vital industry partners. Leveraging UM's strong foundation, Jacki works to sustain the agency's commanding global presence to drive further value for clients, business partners and most importantly UM's global employees.

Jacki was appointed Global CEO for UM in January 2011 after having successfully served as President of North America. In this role Jacki held the responsibility of all regional operations, including planning and buying across all channels, as well as business development and the oversight of all North American accounts. In 2009 UM was honored as Advertising Age Comeback Agency of the Year and Adweek's Media Agency of the Year. In the same year Advertising Age also honored Jacki as a Women To Watch. In 2005, Jacki was inducted into the The American Advertising Federations Hall of Achievement and currently sits on the boards of the Ad Club, AAF and Free the Children.

Jacki came to UM from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where she served as Executive Vice President of Media Sales, and led the formation of an integrated media team. Previously, she served as Vice President, Worldwide Strategies and Solutions at Yahoo!. She began her career at USA Today where she spent 18 years with her last position there as Senior Vice President of Advertising.

Director, Center for the Digital Future, USC Annenberg School

Jeffrey Cole has been at the forefront of media and communication technology issues both in the United States and internationally for the past 25 years. An expert in the field of technology and emerging media, Cole serves as an adviser to governments and leading companies around in the world as they craft digital strategies. In July 2004, Dr. Cole joined the USC Annenberg School for Communication as Director of the newly formed Center for the Digital Future and as a Research Professor. The Center is a research and policy institute committed to work that has a real and beneficial effect on people's lives, while seeking to maximize the positive potential of the mass media and our rapidly evolving communication technologies.

Cole founded and directs the World Internet Project, a long-term longitudinal look at the effects of computer and Internet technology, which is conducted in more than 25 countries. He has worked with both the Clinton and George W. Bush White House on media and telecommunications issues. He regularly makes presentations across the US and in Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

Chief Operating Officer, GroupM Interaction

John Montgomery is the COO of GroupM Interaction in North America. John joined Ogilvy in 1989 in South Africa as media director and launched MindShare in that country.

In the final three years he spent in South Africa, he was Managing Director of the Ogilvy Group in Cape Town, one of the most creative agencies in the Ogilvy Worldwide Network. In 2001, John moved to Amsterdam as CEO, Ogilvy Group Netherlands.

In 2004, John moved to New York to lead mOne in North America, the Interactive media practice for MindShare and Ogilvy, and was subsequently appointed as Global CEO of MindShare Interaction in 2006. He was appointed as COO of GroupM Interaction in 2008.

As part of his portfolio, John leads GroupM's privacy and data strategy for digital and works closely with industry bodies that help set policy in these areas.

GroupM Interaction is now a network of more than 750 digital specialists across North America. It serves as the parent company to WPP media agencies including MediaCom, Maxus, MEC and MindShare.

Chief Executive Officer, Omnicom Group Inc.

John Wren is President and CEO of Omnicom Group Inc., a Fortune 200 company and the premier global marketing and communications corporation. He was named CEO in 1997 and elected President in 1996. Under his leadership, Omnicom has achieved status as a world-class company with the best corporate and divisional management in the advertising and marketing communications industry.

Omnicom manages a portfolio of global market leaders consistently recognized as being among the world’s creative best, including BBDO, DDB, Fleishman-Hillard, Interbrand, Ketchum, OMD, PHD, Porter Novelli, Rapp and TBWA. Omnicom companies work with more than 5,000 global, national and local clients in over 100 countries, providing strategic media planning and buying, interactive and digital marketing, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services.

Mr. Wren was part of the team that created Omnicom in 1986, two years after entering the advertising business as an executive vice president with Needham Harper Worldwide. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Diversified Agency Services division of Omnicom in 1990, and was responsible for developing this division into the holding company’s fastest growing and largest operating group, comprised of innovative companies in a wide array of communication disciplines ranging from public relations to branding.

As CEO of DAS and then Omnicom, Mr. Wren has championed the company’s investment in the recruitment and development of the industry’s top talent through several key programs, including Omnicom University, the industry standard for senior management training in professional service firms.

Mr. Wren is a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum and is active in a number of philanthropic endeavors. A member of the Board of Directors of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., and a Trustee of the Arthur Ashe Foundation, Mr. Wren also supports healthcare education for disadvantaged communities and has been recognized for his contributions to the community with numerous accolades, among them the Gold Medal Award from the Catholic Youth Organization and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

Director of Communication Strategy, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

Joshua started his advertising career at ZenithOptimedia in the UK. A genuine born-and-raised Londoner, Joshua first cut his teeth in the industry at the hard-nosed coal-face that is broadcast TV negotiation and buying. Subsequently Joshua moved to a strategic planning career path, which included placements at ZenithOptimedia offices across Europe.

In 2002 Joshua moved to the United States, joining Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, a San Francisco-based advertising agency in 2003. Joshua has been instrumental in the development of the agency into a fully rounded, communication-agnostic idea shop where powerful brand ideas can live across all consumer touch points. Joshua is the co-head of the 85-person Strategy group.

In the US, Media Magazine has chosen the Strategy group at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners as their "Media Department of the Year" across 2008–2010.

Joshua was name by Ad Age as one of their 2008 industry Media Mavens. Fortuitously, his 4 year old daughter, 18 month old son and wife do a fantastic job of reminding Joshua that while it is nice to be important, it is more important to be nice.

Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Communications Officer, Unilever

As Unilever's Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Keith is on the Unilever Executive Board and is responsible for the Marketing and Communication functions. His role also includes leadership of sustainability, the potable water business and the Unilever Brand. Prior to this he was Executive Vice President for Global Home Care & Hygiene, covering Fabric Cleaning, Fabric Conditioning, Household Cleaning Products, Oral Care and Potable Water.

Previously Keith was Chairman of Lever Fabergé and Chairman of Unilever Export. He has worked for Unilever in the UK, France, the United States, and globally and regionally in a variety of general management and marketing roles.

Outside Unilever he is a Fellow of The Marketing Society, and, as an engineering graduate, is a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. He is also a non Executive Director of Sun Products Corporation.

Chief Operating Officer, NCC Media

Ken Little was named Chief Operating Officer for NCC in April 2009. In this role, Little helms the research, marketing, digital sales and eBusiness teams as the company continues to grow new lines of business for cable satellite and Telco operators. He also oversees NCC's participation in major cable and advertising industry initiatives as well as sits on the Media Ratings Council (MRC) Multichannel Video Program Distributors (MVPD) Executive Committee for Set Top Box Media Measurement Guidelines.

Little's innovations have reshaped the media industry. Under his direction, NCC's revolutionary eBusiness platform was established and remains the only one of its kind in the media industry.

Little joined NCC in 1993 as General Manager of the Chicago Sales office and was soon promoted to oversee the entire Midwest Region. He became Vice President of NCC's Interconnect Division in 1996 and was named Senior Vice President in 1997, then Executive Vice President, Technology and Operations in 2000 before taking on his current role. Prior to joining NCC, Ken was a Vice President at Group W Cable in Chicago and a partner in a consulting firm with major media clients.

Little was the principal architect behind the nation's first hard-wired, real-time interconnect in Chicago in 1996. NCC interconnects in Detroit, Washington DC and nine other key markets soon followed. Notably, Little has also designed missile guidance systems for the US government.

Region Manager, Xbox and MSN Games, Microsoft Advertising

Ken Simon is currently the Central Region Manager for the Entertainment and Devices division at Microsoft Corporation. He is responsible for advertising partnerships across Microsoft's slate of entertainment platforms, including Xbox Live, MSN Games, and Zune.

Prior to the Entertainment and Devices division, Ken spent two years managing the Massive team at Microsoft, which specialized in dynamic in-game advertising across highly trafficked games such as EA's Madden 09, Activision's Guitar Hero III, and Ubisoft's Shawn White Snowboarding. Ken and his team continue to evangelize the Connected Entertainment vision to all major advertising categories and have seen a significant lift in interest since beginning in October 2006.

Prior to Microsoft, Ken spent 7 years as the Executive Director of Business Development at Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. where he built the OEM and Promotional business unit.

Kinky Friedman is a former Texas gubernatorial candidate, author, columnist, musician, cable network commentator and the self-proclaimed "Governor of the Heart of Texas."

The Kinkster, also often referred to as the "Mark Twain of Texas," currently has two books in print, "Heroes of a Texas Childhood" and "What Would Kinky Do?." Kinky rose to stardom in the 70s, with the legendary Texas Jewboys as his sick and twisted sidekicks. An equal opportunity offender, Kinky, with his outrageous lyrics and crazed stage persona, may have offended some, but drew people like Don Imus, Robin Williams, Bob Dylan and John Belushi into his spiritual fan club. He toured with Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue and appeared on the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live. His infamous appearance on Austin City Limits, the only performance ever filmed by ACL and never broadcast because of content, has finally been released on DVD, to the delight of fans everywhere.

In the mid 80s, Kinky rescued a woman being robbed at a Midtown Manhattan ATM, and, based on this experience, created the character Kinky Friedman the Detective, who solved murders in what would become a series of wildly popular mystery novels. In the years since, the real Kinky has branched out into children's books, memoirs, historical reflections and editorials, all to great success, and all powered by his razor-sharp wit.

Kinky's commentaries have appeared in such diverse media as The New York Times, Texas Monthly and Playboy, and since adding politics to his résumé, he has been a regular on cable networks, even stopping by occasionally to spar with Bill O'Reilly.

His books are now read the world over, and his tour schedule reflects this. Kinky is once again touring the world, with US, Australian and European tours scheduled in the next eighteen months. From Bill Clinton to Billy Bob Thornton to Nelson Mandela, everybody loves a Kinky Friedman mystery. As the ever-humble author likes to say, "I write novels for Americans to read on their aircraft."

President and CEO, National Advertising Review Council
Executive Vice President, National Advertising Self-Regulation, Council of Better Business Bureaus

Mr. Peeler is responsible for leading the advertising industry's system of self-regulation, a system dedicated to fostering truth and accuracy in advertising. He oversees the operation of NARC investigative and appeals units; briefs elected officials on self-regulatory initiatives, works to expand advertising self-regulation to industries that are not yet regular participants and consults with representatives of foreign governments on the value of industry self-regulation.

Mr. Peeler joined NARC and BBB in 2006, following a 33-year career at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), where he held a number management positions. While at the FTC, he served as Associate Director of the Division of Advertising Practices (1985-2001) and Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection (2001-2006.)

He has spoken and testified widely on consumer protection issues including truth in advertising, consumer credit, electronic commerce, privacy and data security. Mr. Peeler received his BA and JD degrees from Georgetown University.

Partner and Co-Chief Creative Director, Smith Brothers Agency

Lindsey is an award-winning creative director and copywriter who began his career in account management at Ayer/NY working on P&G brands, including Folgers, Duncan Hines and Hires Root Beer. There, he not only developed a deep appreciation of breakthrough strategies, but also an itch to be the one to bring them to life. His first copywriting job was at Campbell, Mithun, Esty working on The United Way, 1-800-FLOWERS and The Travelers Insurance.

The desire to get back into the CPG space prompted a move to Avrett Free Ginsberg/NY, where over 10 years, he worked on brands as diverse as Meow Mix Cat Food, Johnnie Walker Black Label, Alberto Culver, and the Financial Times of London. Post 9/11, he moved back to his childhood home of Pittsburgh and, along with his brothers, founded Smith Brothers Agency in April 2002.

Lindsey attended Georgetown University.

Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing, Cisco Systems Inc.

Marilyn Mersereau is Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Cisco Systems Inc. Since joining Cisco in July 2002, she has been responsible for the globally integrated marketing activities and systems infrastructure. Working with Ogilvy & Mather, Marilyn developed and launched Cisco's recent international advertising campaign, "Welcome to the Human Network." In addition, Marilyn manages a centralized marketing communications organization for Cisco, infusing integrated marketing philosophy into an improved collaborative marketing process.

Recognized as a leader in the marketing field, Marilyn has over 25 years of experience in leading worldwide marketing teams in several industries. She has developed substantial knowledge of technology through her eight-year tenure at IBM and 6 years at Cisco. At IBM, she held roles as Vice President of Integrated Marketing Communications, VP of Advertising Worldwide, and VP of Marketing in Canada. In addition to assembling a world class marketing organization at IBM, Marilyn won three Gold Effie Awards for Advertising and Campaign Effectiveness during her three years of running advertising globally for IBM. In addition to numerous other awards, Marilyn has been recognized by the Americas Marketing Organization for improving IBM's lead management process as well as for the overall integration and effectiveness of their marketing campaigns.

Prior to IBM, Marilyn established an impressive background in international marketing for widely recognized food and beverage companies including, Coca Cola, and Burger King International.

President, Animal Planet and Science Networks

In January 2011, Marjorie Kaplan was promoted to President of Science Channel. Working with Science Channel, Kaplan builds on Science's success by growing viewership and creating a distinct identity while maintaining the day-to-day oversight and growth of Animal Planet Media.

Since taking over leadership of Animal Planet in February 2007, Kaplan has revolutionized the network into a more adult-focused entertainment brand. In February 2008, Kaplan re-launched Animal Planet with a new logo, brand campaign and programming vision, creating a bold entertainment destination. Most recently, Kaplan further evolved the programming strategy and brand by introducing a new tagline, "Surprisingly Human."

Under Kaplan's direction Animal Planet has grown its audience 28% among P18-49 since the 08 re-brand, and the network finished 2010 with its best ever yearly Total Day delivery across all demos. The network also finished the year as a top 30 cable network. Kaplan is responsible for the network's top-performing series ever including WHALE WARS, RIVER MONSTERS and FATAL ATTRACTIONS.

Kaplan is responsible for the strategic direction and day-to-day operations of this multi-media venture that includes the Animal Planet television network, online assets www.animalplanet.com, the ultimate online destination for all things animal, the 24/7 broadband channel, Animal Planet Beyond, Petfinder.com, and other media platforms including a robust Video-on-Demand (VOD) service, mobile content, and merchandising extensions.

Partner, McGarrah Jessee

Mark started in marketing early, selling his grandfather's vegetables door-to-door at the age of five. After graduating from Oklahoma University he headed to Dallas, to the Richards Group, where he managed accounts in the travel, wine and spirits, restaurants, carbonated beverage and apparel categories.

After seven years he moved to Austin as VP/Account Director at GSD&M, where he soon teamed up with Creative Director and former Richards Group colleague Bryan Jessee. Mark got a taste of agency management when he was named Chairman of one of GSD&M's business units.

In 1996, Mark and Bryan left their stable, secure positions for the instability and insecurity of their own agency, McGarrah Jessee, in a glorified broom closet in an office building near downtown.

The two quickly developed a regional then national strategic and creative presence and a highly regarded agency culture. Now with 70 employees, McGarrah Jessee is consistently a top award-winning agency in the region and as recently Ad Age's "Small Agency of the Year" in the Southwest.

President and Co-Founder, Filament Inc.

Mark Schnurman is the President and Co-Founder of Filament Inc., a business development consulting and communication skills training firm that works exclusively with ad agencies.

As primary pitch consultant for Filament and resident new business guru, Mark works on about 25 pitches per year ranging from small pitches to organization-changing wins. By working on so many pitches at different agencies around the world, he has experience that would normally take a career or two to amass. Mark then brings that expertise to bear helping agencies better craft their message and improve performance on pitch day.

All too often, agencies bombard their prospects at pitches with all of the information that the agency knows and all of the different strategies that could work. The logic seems to be that if you put enough ideas in front of the prospect, something is bound to resonate. In reality, the prospect has no clear understanding as to what it is that the agency stands for. If agencies expect to win, they need to deliver a clear, compelling, focused message to the client that the client not only understand, but believe.

Using a combination of strategic insight, creativity and showmanship, Mark helps organization focus their message to the point where the client not only gets the agency’s big idea, but is willing partner in that big idea, both strategically and creatively.

Quirky personal stuff: Mark lives in New York with his wife and six-year-old daughter. When he is not playing pitch consultant or daddy, Mark plays trombone and sings in a funk band. Over the years he has had the good fortune to perform with Paul McCartney, Lenny Kravitz, and Average White Band and appear on numerous programs, including "The Today Show."

Chief Executive Officer, WPP

Sir Martin Sorrell founded WPP, the world's largest advertising and marketing services group in 1985 and has been chief executive throughout.

WPP companies, which include some of the most eminent agencies in the business, provide clients with advertising, media investment management, consumer insight, public relations and public affairs, branding and identity, healthcare communications, direct, interactive and internet marketing, and specialist communications services.

Collectively, WPP employs over 140,000 people (including associates) in 2,400 offices in 107 countries. The Group's worldwide companies include JWT, Ogilvy Group, Y&R, Grey Group, Mindshare, MEC, MediaCom, Kantar (including Millward Brown and TNS), Wunderman, Burson-Marsteller, Hill & Knowlton, Cohn & Wolfe, Landor, The Brand Union and WPP Digital (including 24/7 Real Media). Clients include 354 of the Fortune Global 500, 60 of the NASDAQ 100 and 33 of the Fortune e-50. In 2009, WPP had revenues of $13.6 billion and billings of $59.4 billion.

Sir Martin actively supports the advancement of international business schools, advising Harvard, IESE, the London Business School and the Indian School of Business. He has been publicly recognized with a number of awards including the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award. He received a knighthood in January 2000.

Sir Martin contributes to many important organisations and charities. In 2006, he was appointed a non-executive director of Alpha Topco, the Formula 1 company. In 2008, he was appointed by The English Football Association to the Board of the bid to stage the 2018 FIFA World Cup. He is on the Executive Committee of the World Economic Forum International Business Council and a member of the Business Council in the US. He is a Patron of the British Museum, a member of the corporate Advisory Group of the Tate Gallery, and on the International Advisory Board of The Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. In 2010 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Bloomberg Family Foundation. He is vice-chairman of IBLAC 2011. He is a non-executive director of Sorrell Capital.

Vice President, Integrated Strategy, The Phelps Group

A 20-year veteran of the Los Angeles ad community, Mary Jo joined The Phelps Group in 1994 challenged to help build the agency's engagement capabilities and expand the scope of integrated planning to include traditional and online media, as well as social media, public relations, customer relationship marketing and alliance, promotions and events marketing.

Working with clients in the healthcare, financial, telecommunications, retail and e-commerce industries, Mary Jo has been an evangelist for developing media-neutral communications plans while promoting the importance of strategy development, execution, results analysis and plan optimization.

Mary Jo is a former chairperson of the 4A's Small and Mid-Sized Media Directors Committee, helping to promote policy and best practices.

Executive Vice President, Media Audience Measurement, The Nielsen Company

Matt O'Grady oversees all media audience measurement strategy and products for the television, online and mobile divisions. As media consumption continues to evolve, Matt is responsible for measuring viewership and content across current and emerging platforms. This includes defining and developing future measurement vehicles specifically focused on the convergence of all media streams.

Matt brings with him 20+ years of research experience with the last ten years at Nielsen Claritas, most recently as President. Claritas is the targeting arm of The Nielsen Company specializing in customer acquisition applications, including online and offline venues. Additionally, Mr. O'Grady oversaw Nielsen's Spectra division which provides targeting and merchandising applications for consumer packaged goods clients.

Mr. O'Grady sits on the board of The Direct Marketing Association where he is active in the technology and government affairs sectors. He is a frequent presenter at industry associations and conferences, and has published articles in American Demographics, Business Geographic and American Banker, among others. He has also worked extensively with geographic information system (GIS) and analytical delivery platforms for site analysis and customer acquisition.

Prior to joining Claritas, Mr. O'Grady worked at Equifax, The Daniel Yankelovich Group and AT&T in sales, marketing and product management roles. He earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Michael E. Kassan, Chairman and CEO, is an internationally recognized business strategist operating at the intersection of the media, advertising and entertainment industries. He is the founder of MediaLink LLC, a leading Los Angeles- and New York City-based advisory and business development firm that provides critical counsel and direction on issues of marketing, advertising, media, entertainment and digital technology. MediaLink provides strategic marketing and brand development, implementation roadmaps, technology solutions for media, media sales and revenue generation, business development, organizational planning and competitive analysis to many of the Fortune 100’s biggest global brands.

Previously, Kassan was the President/COO and Vice-Chairman of Initiative Media Worldwide. In 1997, he was named one of the top media executives in America by Advertising Age Magazine. He joined Initiative Media Worldwide in 1994, and helped grow media billings from $1.5 billion to over $10 billion. Prior to Initiative, he was President and COO of International Video Entertainment (Artisan Entertainment).

In addition, Kassan has served on the Board of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society, the Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy and the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission and has been Chairman of the State Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry.

Kassan is also a strong supporter of community and not-for-profit programs, and currently serves as Chair of the UJA-New York Marketing Communications Committee. He also plays an active role in children’s education and mentoring, having been involved in both the H.E.L.P. Group, a non-profit organization serving children with special needs, and the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program of Los Angeles.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Interpublic Group of Companies

Michael I. Roth is Chairman and CEO of Interpublic, one of the world's largest organizations of advertising and marketing services companies. Prior to serving in his current role, Roth was a member of the company's Board of Directors.

Since assuming leadership of Interpublic in 2005, Roth has righted the company's financial course and moved to make it an industry leader by defining new models that provide value to clients in a rapidly changing media and marketing environment.

Prior to his current role, Roth was Chairman and CEO of The MONY Group Inc., a financial services holding company that provides a wide range of protection, asset accumulation and retail brokerage products and services through its member companies. Under Roth's leadership, The MONY Group diversified its business mix, broadened its distribution channels and enhanced its ability to compete in today's financial services marketplace.

Roth is a member of the Board of Directors for Pitney Bowes Inc., the Ad Council and the Gaylord Entertainment Company. He sits on the Leadership Committee of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; the Board of Directors of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy and The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA). In addition, he is a Director of The Baruch College Fund, The Partnership for New York City and The Enterprise Foundation. He is also a member of the Business Roundtable.

A certified public accountant, Roth holds an LLM degree from New York University Law School and a JD from Boston University Law School. He is a 1967 graduate of the City College of New York.

Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, MDC Partners Inc.

Under Mr. Nadal's leadership, MDC Partners has grown to become the ninth largest marketing and communications company in the world, with annual revenues topping $500 million. The company's shares are traded on NASDAQ and the Toronto Stock Exchange.

MDC provides advertising, media and marketing services as well as customer relationship management, to many of the world’s premier corporations. MDC Partners' roster of affiliated firms boasts Crispin Porter + Bogusky, named in the trade press as "Agency of the Year" twelve times, kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners, Zig, Colle + McVoy and Bruce Mau Design.

Partner and Business Development Director, Smith Brothers Agency

Miles has spent his entire career growing businesses and brands. In his first role, Miles became a top-producing commercial real estate manager (and trainer) for Grubb & Ellis in New York. After discovering his talent and passion for sales, marketing and training, Miles decided to combine interests by entering the event and seminar promotions business. In the role of Director of Advertising & Community Relations for the SUCCESS Conferences, the nation's largest celebrity event promotions company, Miles grew annual attendance to over 500,000 attendees.

With the goal of one day starting his own company, Miles then took a break to acquire his MBA in Marketing & Entrepreneurship at the University of Oregon. He went on to lead business development efforts at a direct response agency, a custom publishing company (eBrick), and TMP Worldwide in New York City, before "taking the leap" to join his brothers in launching the Smith Brothers Agency.

Miles acquired his undergraduate BA degree in Psychology and Economics at Denison University.

Chief Executive Officer, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide

Miles Young was educated at Bedford School and New College, Oxford. His career in advertising has spanned Lintas, Allen Brady & Marsh, and Ogilvy & Mather, which he joined in 1983.

Miles was appointed to the Board of Ogilvy & Mather Advertising in London in 1986 and Client Services Director in 1988. In February 1990, he became Managing Director of Ogilvy & Mather Direct in London. He was a Regional Director of Ogilvy & Mather Direct Europe from 1990 to 1995.

From 1994 to 1995, he had the additional responsibility of setting up and running the IBM account in Europe which had previously been held by some 40 separate agencies. This included setting up a dedicated service hub in Paris for both advertising and direct marketing; and Miles has lectured and written widely on the subject of integrated marketing, a special interest.

Miles is cofounder of the Ogilvy-Tsinghua Program for Public Branding, a joint venture with Tsinghua University, Beijing, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua School of Journalism. He is also an economic consultant to the Jiangsu, China Provincial Government and a visiting Professor at Xiamen University. Miles is a member of the Board of the US Pakistan Business Council in Washington, DC and the Prime Minister of Turkey's Investment Advisory Council. In addition, he is a member of the Board of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

He assumed the position of CEO of Ogilvy & Mather worldwide in January 2009 and is based in New York.

President and General Manager, History and Lifetime Networks

Nancy Dubuc is President and General Manager of History, and was also named President and General Manger of Lifetime networks in May 2010. Ms. Dubuc is responsible for the strategic planning, programming, consumer marketing, publicity and brand development of the networks. She also oversees History International, History en Español, Military History, Lifetime Movie Network and Lifetime Real Women.

Under her leadership at History, the network has experienced its best ratings performance in the history of the network and has launched the network's top 10 series and top six specials of all time. For the first time ever, History ranks in the top 5 among all four key demos out of all cable networks: #5 in A25-54, A18-49, and M18-49 and #3 in M25-54. It is the #1 non-fiction cable network among each of these demos.

Prior to History, Ms. Dubuc was Senior Vice President, Non-Fiction Programming and New Media Content, AETN, a position she assumed in June 2006. Previously, she was Senior Vice President, Programming for A&E Network.

Among her many honors, Ms. Dubuc was named by Multichannel News and WICT as a 2007 Wonder Woman; The Hollywood Reporter annually names her to their Power 100: Top Women in Entertainment and Variety featured her in their annual Women's Impact Report. In 2007 she received the Preserve America Presidential Award, the highest national award for historic preservation achievement, for History's Save Our History initiative. Ms. Dubuc began her career at AETN as Director, Historical Programming for History.

President and Chief Executive Officer, 4A's

Nancy Hill was named President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of Advertising Agencies on February 1, 2008. Previously, she served as Chief Executive Officer at Lowe New York.

A veteran of 4A's member agencies on both the east and west coast, Ms. Hill has served as Executive Vice President and Managing Director at BBDO New York, where she oversaw several of the agency's largest accounts.

Ms. Hill joined BBDO from Hill | Holliday, where she was first President of its San Francisco office, and later served as Executive Vice President and Managing Director for New York. In San Francisco, she was named one of the "75 Most Influential Women in Business" in both 2001 and 2002 by the San Francisco Business Times. Her background is steeped in technology experience from clients such as Cisco, Microsoft, LucasArts, Sybase, Sony, and Verizon.

Ms. Hill began her career in the recording industry. Later, she spent 11 years at Doner in Baltimore and TBWA\Chiat\Day before moving to San Francisco to lead Goldberg Moser O’Neill, which became Hill | Holliday in 2001.

Ms. Hill has served on the Board of Directors of the Miami Ad School and led the launch of its New York campus. In addition to many teaching engagements throughout the country, she is actively involved in a community and education program in Ecuador where she has a home.

Founding Partner, Naked Communications

Eager to champion integrated marketing communications, objective and bias-free thinking, and brilliant misfits, Paul joined Naked Communications as a founding partner to bring the Naked brand and philosophy to the Americas. In parallel, he was also appointed as a global partner in the company's holding group, which currently has fifteen-plus businesses in twelve locations worldwide.

A veteran of the marketing, advertising and media industries prior to Naked, Paul worked at both large marketing and advertising concerns, including IPG, Y&R Inc., and WPP, as well entrepreneurial ventures like the Media Kitchen, which he founded. He is an advisor to a number of arts, digital, technology, and research concerns.

Championing objective and innovative thinking, Paul has served on a diverse array of creative, media, digital effectiveness and integration award juries. He was the chair of the first ever Cannes Media Lions, and served on last year's jury for the Cannes Titanium and Integration awards. Last year, Fast Company Magazine named Paul one of the 10 "Most Creative People in Advertising and Marketing."

Born in Africa and raised in many countries, Paul has traveled around the world both professionally and personally. He currently lives in Manhattan with his wife Carol and their two children, India and Gabriel.

Chairman and CEO, Gotham, Inc.

Peter's mission as Chairman and CEO of Gotham is to bring leading marketers street-smart, integrated communications without the big-agency bureaucracy. And to help his clients outsmart their competitors by focusing on ideas over executions and by exploiting every marketing channel available, especially if that channel didn’t exist yesterday. Gotham today is winning awards and business, attracting great talent and is the #1 agency to watch, according to Ad Age.

Before landing at Gotham, Peter spent over 15 years at McCann Worldgroup in both the media and account management departments running accounts like Rubbermaid, Black & Decker, Smith Barney, AT&T and Gateway. He climbed the ranks quickly and became Executive Vice President and Worldwide Account Director before he turned 30. In this role, he helped transform the MasterCard "Priceless" campaign into a global phenomenon in over 100 countries and in 45 languages and went on to lead 20 integrated brands for Unilever in 90 countries.

Peter also gave back to the industry and the community by leading multiple pro bono efforts, including the AIDS Awareness Quilt campaign under the Clinton and Bush administrations, Mandela Day, the Anti-Crime campaign for NYC, Paul Newman's The Hole in the Wall Camps for terminally ill children, the "Small Steps" anti-obesity campaign for the US Dept. of Health and Human Services and the "Hands Can Do Incredible Things" CPR campaign for the Ad Council. In addition, he helped pioneer Agencies In Action by committing Gotham to it first, helping NYC's homeless. Add to his list these creative accomplishments: Effies, AMEs, CLIOs and Cannes Lions.

Peter also serves on the 4A's Board and Government Relations Committee as well as the AEF board, charged with helping to shape the future of the advertising industry. He is a member of the AAF Advertising Hall of Achievement, a David Rockefeller Fellow for the advancement of New York City and a member of IPG's Diversity Council.

Peter and his wife recently started a philanthropic company called Do Your Part Through Art, which focuses on child development through artistic expression for children in need from countries of need.

Chief Digital Officer, Mediabrands NY

As Chief Digital Officer, Quentin George accelerates Mediabrands strategic planning and business development in all aspects of digital marketing strategy. Quentin is responsible for developing strategic partnerships and alliances to realize new media marketplace initiatives to make digital marketing more efficient and effective.

In addition to his continued role leading UM's digital and new media practices, Quentin is at the center of group activities to drive critical velocity in navigating the complexities of the digital arena for all Mediabrands clients. Quentin ensures that the Mediabrands digital offering around the world exceeds the expectations of our clients and helps transform the Mediabrands culture into one that is 100% digitally focused, a necessity for deploying leading-edge, relevant marketing campaigns, which ultimately reflects the reality of consumer behavior and media consumption.

Quentin joined Universal McCann as Global Lead, Digital Media and Strategic innovation in April 2007, and carries more than 15 years of Internet industry experience. A digital marketing pioneer, Quentin George has lead strategic digital initiatives for some of the most respected global brands.

President, Partners + Napier

Bob Bailey is President of Partners + Napier, a full-service ideas agency headquartered in Rochester, NY. He serves as a lead strategist for current clients and new business, and has helped the agency achieve significant growth through leading brands like Bausch + Lomb, Kodak, Citibank, Constellation Brands, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, and Delta Private Jets.

With nearly two decades of experience in account leadership, Bailey mastered the ins and outs of the client/agency relationship from the ground up. Before joining Partners + Napier, Bailey held posts at Catalyst Direct, Wunderman, and The Wolf Group.

At Partners + Napier, in addition to general management oversight, Bailey heads the agency's account leadership team in strategic growth and earning client trust. Under his guidance, the 150-person agency has maintained a 96% client satisfaction rate year over year, as assessed by an annual client survey. The agency was recently honored by Advertising Age as a national Small Agency of the Year (runner-up in the 76–150 employee category), and was also named one of Ad Age's Best Places to Work in Marketing & Media 2010.

A recipient of the Rochester Ad Council's prestigious Lantern Award, Bob also received a "40 Under 40" award from the Rochester Business Journal. He serves on the executive board of the YMCA of Greater Rochester, and is a member of the national Business Marketing Association board of directors. Bailey also serves on the board of directors of the 4A's New York State Council.

Director, US Census Bureau

President Barack Obama nominated Robert M. Groves for Director of the US Census Bureau on April 2, 2009, and the Senate confirmed him on July 13, 2009. He began his tenure as director on July 15, 2009.

Groves had been a professor at the University of Michigan and Director of its Survey Research Center, as well as a research professor at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland.

He was the Census Bureau's Associate Director for Statistical Design, Methodology and Standards from 1990 to 1992, on loan from the University of Michigan.

Groves has authored or co-authored seven books and scores of scientific articles. His 1989 book, Survey Errors and Survey Costs, was named one of the 50 most influential books in survey research by the American Association of Public Opinion Research. His book, Nonresponse in Household Interview Surveys, with Mick Couper, written during his time at the Census Bureau, received the 2008 AAPOR Book Award.

He and his wife, Cynthia, have two sons—Christopher, a recent graduate of Purdue University, and Andrew, currently a student at Northwestern University.

Group Vice President, Digital Media, Fox Television Stations, Inc.

Ron is responsible for online operations, business development and digital strategy for the Fox Television Stations (FTS) Group in New York, and is involved in corporate initiatives targeting digital media futures/opportunities, such as mobile television. He has been on the business committee of the Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC) since it's inception. Fox Television Stations' Web sites launched in the summer/fall of 2006, and have quickly grown to average nearly 12 million average monthly unique users, with rapid growth now in the mobile Web and applications space as well.

Prior to joining Fox in 2006, Ron was Director of TV Stations for the Walt Disney Internet Group and later VP, Digital Media for the ABC O&O TV station group. His interest and involvement in online grew out of earlier roles in marketing and sales promotion at ABC National TV Sales. He began his career with research roles at NBC and Katz Communications.

Ron graduated with a bachelor's degree in Radio & Television Arts from Toronto's Ryerson University, and holds a Master of Science degree in telecommunications management from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.

Global Partnership Director, TED

As Global Partnership Director, Ronda Carnegie is one of the key strategists at TED, overseeing international corporate development and partnership initiatives. In this role, she defines corporate strategy, product development and acts as an external liaison with corporations around the world. Her mission includes engaging with global advertising agencies to explore ways to leverage TED's premium content, its influential audience as well as to create programs that support transformative ideas.

Ronda's career spans more than 20 years in publishing. She was appointed to her current position in July 2008, following her role as Associate Publisher for both The New Yorker and Conde Nast Portfolio.

Chief Executive Officer, Annalect Group

As the CEO of Annalect Group, Omnicom Media Group's new digital data and analytics organization, Scott Hagedorn is the architect behind an audacious effort to reinvent the fundamentals of media measurement.

Annalect Group brings together more than 300 digital and analytic experts from across several OMG specialty divisions—including Media Analytics, Business Intelligence, Tools and Dashboard Systems, Econometric Modeling (Brand Science), Search (Resolution Media) and its DSP trading platform—to create a new, strategically focused, data-informed marketing platform. By aligning and leveraging the consumer and media data from Omnicom Media Group's $2 billion in digital investments, Annalect delivers a higher level of consumer insight, and increases the efficiency and impact of client media investments.

Prior to taking on his new role at Annalect, Scott was US CEO of PHD Network where his strategic vision and leadership helped PHD win two of the most hotly contested media pitches of 2010, GSK and Gap, earning PHD a spot on the Advertising Age Agency A List, as one of ten agencies to watch in 2011.

In his 14 years in Marketing, Scott has excelled as a digital expert, brand planner, marketing strategist, direct response guru and entrepreneur. Prior to joining PHD, Scott worked as the Managing Director of OMD East, a role that was redefined with a stronger focus on digital and analytics. During his tenure, OMD was awarded Global Media Agency of the Year and won top awards for digital creativity.

Scott had also worked as the US Director of OMD Digital, supervising all digital efforts across OMD Digital's US properties in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Prior to OMD, he was the Chief Interactive Officer of Omnicom direct agency, Rapp Worldwide.

Scott was named to Crain's 40 Under 40 list in 2008.

President, Aperture

Scott Knoll is President of Aperture, a Datran Media company. Aperture is a revolutionary audience targeting and measurement technology platform providing business intelligence to blue chip brands, agencies and online publishers.

The former CEO of BlackFoot and a former DoubleClick executive, Mr. Knoll has more than 18 years of experience in technology and advertising. At DoubleClick Inc., Mr. Knoll oversaw the launch and development of the DoubleClick ad network in nine countries including Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Taiwan, New Zealand, Singapore, and Korea.

Mr. Knoll also co-founded and served as COO of data services company Verified Person and held management roles at Time Warner Inc. and Andersen Consulting.

Mr. Knoll holds both a Masters in Business Administration degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University.

CEO and Founder, Evidon

Scott created Evidon (formerly Better Advertising) while an Entrepreneur in Residence at Warburg Pincus LLC, the global private equity firm that is supporting the company. From 2005–2008, Scott was President and CEO of About.com, a part of The New York Times Company. He spent eight years with The New York Times Company in a number of senior management roles. In addition to his role at About.com, he was the General Manager of the company's flagship Web site, The New York Times on the Web. He also served as Vice President, Strategic Planning for The Boston Globe. Before joining The New York Times Company, Scott was with Multex.com (a venture-backed company which was acquired by Reuters in 2003 after a successful IPO in 1999), where he was Vice President and General Manager of its business-to-consumer division.

Before beginning his media career, Scott worked in management consulting at The Boston Consulting Group and in investment banking at Merrill Lynch & Co. Scott holds an AB in Public Policy and American Institutions from Brown University, where he was a winner of the Rouse Prize for Economics. Scott also interned in the US Senate and in the Office of Management and Budget as a recipient of a White Internship from the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Chief Executive Officer, Geomentum

As Chief Executive Officer of Geomentum, the largest hyper-local media agency in the United States, Sean Finnegan is at the helm of one of IPG's most innovative and fastest-growing companies. A builder by nature, Sean joined Geomentum in 2010 to capture the spirit of the rapidly developing hyper-local platform by engineering a full-service agency model that enables global brands and advertisers to drive momentum "from national to neighborhood."

A digital pioneer and one of the advertising industry's first interactive media strategists, Sean brings a veteran's perspective to the new opportunities in communications, changed by personal media, mobility and digitized social interaction. A trusted leader for global advertising accounts during the dot-com era, Sean has successfully navigated major media evolutions and created sustainable growth for clients and agencies. This experience arms Sean with a seasoned point-of-view as the advertising industry re-engineers to address the challenges faced by today’s advertisers, hoping to make sense of the seismic paradigm shift from national media to a universe of exploding hyper-local communities.

As a prominent member of digital advertising industry groups such as Google's Agency Advisory Council, the Facebook Customer Council and the 4A's Digital CEO Board, Sean is a leader that values industry connectivity to build a well-rounded and growth-oriented organization. Leveraging a proven ability to sense and capture opportunity, Sean is assertively forging strategic inroads with the industry's most influential communications companies as the merging of advertising, entertainment and consumer media bare meaningful opportunities for advertisers in the hyper-local space. Sean maintains deep connectivity with Silicon Valley, where he continues to be engaged in the start-up and ventures community.

A leader in the digital media space, Sean Finnegan has carved a unique path for brands and marketers in consumer-driven media by maintaining a pure, people-focused approach to advertising. Prior to Geomentum, Sean held digital leadership roles at major agency and media owner organizations. Most recently President/Chief Digital Officer at Starcom MediaVest Group, Sean drove the network’s digital strategy, developing digital communications products, proprietary tools and technology applications. Sean also directed a worldwide video advertising network as Chief Marketing Officer of Vibrant Media. As a leader in Omnicom Media Group, Sean was Chief Executive Officer of OMG Digital where he led its global management team and developed functional services in digital investment, search, mobile, gaming, futures, analytics and ad operations. Sean's has also made meaningful contributions to such interactive agencies as Darwin Digital (Zenith), APL Digital and JWT Digital.

For his outstanding contributions to the industry, Sean has been named an AAF Advertising Hall of Achievement inductee, an Advertising Age Media Maven, a Media All Star for Mediaweek Magazine, a MediaPost All Star, one of min magazine's 21 Most Intriguing People, and Internationalist Magazine Agency Innovator and OnMedia's Madison Avenue "IT" List. Sean is also a proud co-founder and board member of the Tom Deierlein Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping needy families and children both nationally and internationally with their most basic living needs including medical care.

Chief Executive Officer, Partners + Napier

Sharon Napier is Chief Executive Officer of Partners + Napier, a full-service ideas agency headquartered in Rochester, NY. After purchasing the agency and its two offices from the Wolf Group agency network, Napier co-founded Partners + Napier in 2004 with partners CFO Jim DiNoto and CCO Jeff Gabel.

Since its inception, Partners + Napier has grown to a creative powerhouse of 150 staffers with full-service offices in Rochester and Atlanta, and field offices in New York City and San Francisco. The agency handles a roster of blue-chip clients including Eastman Kodak Company, Constellation Wines US, Bausch + Lomb, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, and Delta Private Jets. Partners + Napier was recently honored as an Advertising Age Small Agency of the Year (runner-up in the 76–150 employee category), and was also named one of Ad Age's 30 Best Places to Work in Marketing & Media 2010.

As both CEO and agency visionary, Napier is relentlessly focused on the success of her clients and her employees. Under her leadership, the agency maintains an average client tenure of 9 years, a statistic shaped largely by Napier's vision of doing great work for great clients with great people. In 2009, the Rochester Advertising Federation presented Napier with its highest honor, the Silver Award. This past year, Napier served as a judge at The Effie Awards, and also delivered the keynote speech at Ad Age's inaugural Small Agency Conference in New Orleans.

Napier's passion for the industry is matched by her dedication to helping it prosper and grow. She serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the 4A's Board of Directors and is a member of the AWNY executive committee.

Partner, Norwest Venture Partners

Tim brings a combination of operational, technical and international business experience to Norwest Venture Partners. Tim focuses on investments in mobile, gaming, digital media, and also leads NVP's investment practice in China and Asia-Pacific. Tim's venture investments have generated more than $1.3B in M&A exit value. Tim led NVP's investments and serves on the board of directors in AdChina, PCH International, AllReach Media, Lumos Labs, Brite Semiconductor and 3jam. He also led NVP's investments in BranchOut, a career networking application for social networks and social media, as well as in ngmoco (acquired by DeNA) and Playdom (acquired by Disney), two of the premier leaders in social gaming. Tim is a board observer working closely with Borqs, deCarta and Veveo.

Tim holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and an MS in electrical engineering/system engineering as well as a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan. Tim is also an accomplished musician and currently performs with BlackMahal and Coverflow.

Co-Founder, GSD&M
Founder and CEO, Mythos Legends and MindMeld Alliance

In 1971, Tim was one of five University of Texas at Austin graduates who founded GSD&M, one of America's most successful advertising agencies.

In 2001, Tim launched Mythos Legends, a Brand Invention, Evolution & Legacy company. Mythos has designed the Flagship Fleet of custom jets for Southwest Airlines, created evolutionary branding for Austin: City of Ideas; and recently invented H2Orange, the first purified Texas water that funds academic scholarships for students attending The University of Texas at Austin.

In 2010, Tim launched MindMeld Alliance, a virtual alliance of creative solutions companies that provide 21st Century solutions to a client's most challenging marketing problems—from corporate innovation and collaboration strategies to live+mobile+online marketing and social media strategies. MindMeld’s battle cry echoes its bold core purpose: virtually anything's possible.

Tim is a self-described ideanthropist. One of his notable pro bono ideas was naming SafePlace, the merger between Austin's Center for Battered Women and Rape Crisis Center. Ideas are Tim's passion.

Chief Revenue Officer, Quantcast

Todd Teresi joined Quantcast in September 2008 as Chief Revenue Officer. He is responsible for Quantcast's business development, client services and operations activities, focusing on connecting advertisers and publishers through addressable media solutions. These solutions include Quantcast's revolutionary direct measurement products, Quantcast Publisher and Quantcast Marketer, along with the recently announced Quantcast Media Program, that provides advertisers with new ways to evaluate their key customer profiles against the entire US Internet population, so they can target meaningful audiences numbering in the millions, even tens of millions, with relevant advertising. Quantcast measures and organizes the world’s audiences in real-time and connects the marketplace so that advertisers can buy and media companies can sell the people who matter most to them.

Teresi joined Quantcast after nearly 10 years at Yahoo! as Senior Vice President of Yahoo!'s Publisher Network across both Search and Display advertising. Teresi contributed to the development of many of the company's highly innovative advertising, publisher network, and targeting capabilities, and helped drive strategic acquisitions, global advertising operations and new business models.

Partner and Managing Director, Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Winston Binch is Partner/Managing Director at CP+B, in Boulder, Colorado, where he's responsible for agency-wide business development and interactive operations and strategy. He works with brands such as American Express, Domino's, Microsoft, MetLife, Coke Zero, Burger King, Best Buy, Kraft, B-cycle, Bonnier, Bolthouse Farms, Jose Cuervo, and Vail Resorts.

Since his arrival in 2005, Winston has been a principal leader in the build-out of CP+B's internal interactive capabilities, enabling the agency to handle large-scale application production, mobile and social media strategy, SEO/SEM, metrics analysis and implementation, interaction and experience design, and technical development responsibilities. Today the agency has 400 people dedicated to interactive in North America and Europe, and they've been awarded Interactive Agency of the Year at Cannes for three of the last five years.

Over the last thirteen years, his work has been recognized by international award shows and publications such as Cannes Cyber Lions, Andys, One Show, Clios, London International Awards, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, AdAge, Adweek, Creativity, Travel + Leisure, Ski Magazine, and Communication Arts.

He's active in social media and frequently posts his opinions on marketing, digital invention, music, and skiing, at his Posterous blog, winstonbinch.com. Additionally, his thoughts on marketing and social media have been published in various industry trade magazines, and he's a regular speaker at the world's leading digital and marketing conferences and events. He enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, making and listening to music, as well as rapid mountain descents on alpine skis and mountain bikes.