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A-LIST & CREATIVITY AWARDS

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AD AGE A-LIST & CREATIVITY AWARDS

 

The coveted Ad Age A-List & Creativity Awards honor the forward-thinking leaders, top agencies and creative innovators in the industry today. The long-running A-List is handpicked by the editorial staff at Ad Age, who comb through hundreds of submissions. The Creativity Awards are chosen by esteemed juries led by Ad Age.

Ad Age A-List winners and Creativity Awards finalists and winners are published in Ad Age at separate times. All winners will be jointly recognized at a gala held in New York in April, 2019.

 

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CATEGORIES

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2019 AD AGE A-LIST AWARDS

Being named on the A-List is one of the most prestigious honors in advertising. The recognition reflects game-changing creativity, bold leadership and the ability to point the industry in new directions.

A-List honorees will be named in the following categories:

Agency of the Year and A-List

Media Agency of the Year

Multicultural Agency of the Year

International Agency of the Year

Innovator Agency of the Year

In-House Agency of the Year

Data/Analytics Agency of the Year NEW!

Design Agency of the Year NEW!

Production Company of the Year and A-List

Agency Executive of the Year

CMO of the Year NEW!

 

For A-List Awards judging criteria and entry instructions:

How to Enter Ad Age A-list Awards

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2019 CREATIVITY AWARDS

Earning recognition in the Creativity Awards means that your efforts have been a driving force behind the success of campaigns, your company is using technology in savvy ways or your work is setting new standards in emerging categories. 

To be eligible for the Ad Age Creativity Awards, work must have debuted and run between Nov. 1, 2017 and Dec. 31, 2018.

Creativity Awards honorees will be named in the following categories:

People

Chief Creative Officer of the Year  

Creative Director of the Year

Creative of the Year

Chief Strategy Officer of the Year NEW!

Strategic Planner of the Year

Media Planner of the Year

Director of the Year

Brand Marketer of the Year  

Account Manager of the Year 

Diversity & Inclusion Champion of the Year NEW!

 

Companies

Visionary/Founder of the Year  

Startup of the Year

Consumer Product of the Year

Marketing Product of the Year

 

Work

Campaign of the Year

Experiential Campaign of the Year

Content Marketing of the Year

Best Work for Good 

Tech Application of the Year

Craft of the Year 

Short Form/Tiny But Mighty

Featured Category: Best AI/Code NEW!

Featured Category: Best Use of Voice Tech NEW!

 

For Creativity Awards judging criteria and entry instructions:

How to Enter Ad Age Creativity Awards

 

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PRICING & DEADLINES

There is a tiered entry fee structure for each program.

Early Pricing:

$395 per category. Ends October 23 at 11:59pm EST

Regular Pricing:

$450 per category. Ends November 28 at 11:59pm EST

A-List Awards Last Chance Pricing/Final Deadline:

$600 per category. Deadline December 18 at 5pm EST

Creativity Awards Last Chance Pricing/Final Deadline:

$600 per category. Deadline January 8 at 5pm EST
 

There will be no deadline extensions beyond those outlined above. 

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JUDGES

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The honorees in the long-running A-List Awards are handpicked by the editorial staff at Ad Age. For the Creativity Awards, esteemed juries convened by Ad Age will choose finalists and winners. See below for this year’s 2019 Creativity Award judges.

  Work Jury

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Margaret Johnson

Chief Creative Officer and Partner

Goodby Silverstein & Partners

Margaret Johnson

Chief Creative Officer and Partner

Goodby Silverstein & Partners

Margaret Johnson is a 20-year veteran of Goodby Silverstein & Partners and leads the agency's creative department, a position she assumed in 2015 after being named a partner in 2012. In 2016, she was named the agency's first Chief Creative Officer.

Under her leadership, GS&P has architected famous work with a humanitarian edge with Creativity Magazine naming GS&P one of its Top 10 Most Innovative agencies in 2017. This has included the Tostitos’ “Party Safe” bag that was created to prevent drunk driving after the Super Bowl; Doritos “No Choice” Chips, which encouraged millennials to register to vote in the 2016 election; “Dreams of Dali,” the Oculus Rift experience for the Salvador Dalí Museum; the anti-cyberbullying campaign “#IAmAWitness” for the Ad Council; the "Unacceptable Acceptance Letters" to combat sexual assault on college campuses; Doritos Rainbows, the profits of which supported the It Gets Better Project; and the Häagen-Dazs “HD Loves HB” campaign. The latter prompted Congress to conduct hearings on colony collapse disorder. In 2018, Advertising Age named Margaret as Executive of the Year, and over the years, she has been named one of the industry’s top chief creative officers by Forbes, Business Insider, Adweek and The Drum.

Johnson serves on the boards of the One Show and Facebook’s Creative Council. She was a founding member of the 3 Percent Conference and has judged the Andys and the Clios, as well as the prestigious Titanium category of the Cannes Lions. She has won awards at every major show, including the One Show’s first Green Pencil, for the Häagen-Dazs “HD Loves HB” campaign; the Grand Prize Kelly Award for the Häagen-Dazs “Five” campaign; a Cannes Cyber Lion for the Yahoo! outdoor interactive “Bus Stop Derby”; and two Lions for Logitech’s “Ivan Cobenk” spot, which was included as one of the CLIO Awards’ 100 all-time World’s Best Commercials. Johndon also produced and directed “Dunkumentary,” which was featured in the Short Film Corner at Cannes.

Johnson graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with a B.A. in journalism and mass communication and earned a degree in art direction at the Portfolio Center in Atlanta.

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Brent Anderson

Chief Creative Officer

TBWA \ Media Arts Lab

Brent Anderson

Chief Creative Officer

TBWA \ Media Arts Lab

Brent Anderson is global chief creative officer for TBWA\Media Arts Lab, the global network of agencies responsible for one of the world’s most iconic brands: Apple. A 13-year veteran of the TBWA collective, Anderson was CCO of TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles before taking the reins at Media Arts Lab in October of 2016. Anderson focuses on disruptive, iconic campaigns that push the brand forward, including the launch of HomePod with the Cannes Lions Grand Prix-winning, Spike Jonze-directed, “Welcome Home”; the multifaceted “Behind the Mac” campaign, including “Make Something Wonderful”; the launch of iPhone X and iPhone Xs; and the evolution of the famed, “Shot on iPhone” campaign into long-form content across the globe, and into social with @apple.

His career has been punctuated by thoughtful leadership and game-changing creative on some of the most enviable and innovative brands in the world. Anderson and his partner were the creators of “Gatorade Replay,” the most-awarded work at Cannes Lions that year, with two Grands Prix and six Gold Lions. As the architect behind Gatorade’s biggest global campaign in its 40-year history, he led its new positioning as a sports-nutrition company and developed the brand belief to “Win from Within.” Anderson also told the stories of the brand’s marquee athletes, from Derek Jeter’s “Made in New York,” and “Dear Peyton,” to Serena’s “Match Point” Snapchat game.

Anderson’s work has also culturally impacted Nissan, Visa, the Grammys, and Adidas, where he shared in the central role in winning the Adidas 2014 FIFA World Cup campaign. Anderson was also a leader to and champion for Airbnb, both with its global, “Live There” campaign, and in joining the mission to create a world where all seven billion of us can truly “Belong Anywhere.” Throughout his career, Anderson has collected top industry awards as a creative and as a creative leader, including Cannes Lions Grands Prix for his work on Gatorade and on Apple, the One Show’s “Best of Show” award, the Grandy and the Grand Clio.

A graduate of Brigham Young University, Anderson began his career at JohnsonSheen (now North) in Portland, Oregon. Outside work, Anderson spends most of his time with his wife and four daughters, skiing, surfing, running, basketball-ing and anything else that involves breaking a sweat.

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Devika Bulchandani

President

McCann New York

Devika Bulchandani

President

McCann New York

Devika Bulchandani is President of McCann New York, a post she assumed in 2017. Previously, Bulchandani served as Managing Director of McCann New York and President of McCann XBC, McCann Worldgroup’s agency unit dedicated to Mastercard.

Prior to being named President of McCann XBC in 2014, Bulchandani had served as its Chief Strategy Officer and as one of its founders. Formed in 2012, McCann XBC works on Mastercard’s global marketing efforts alongside additional McCann Worldgroup companies such as MRM//McCann and Interpublic agencies such as R/GA and Octagon.

In her leadership role at McCann XBC, Bulchandani played a key role in transforming “Priceless,” the Mastercard advertising concept introduced by McCann in 1997, into a global modern business platform encompassing a wide range of digital and experiential marketing programs.

In addition to directing the strategy for McCann XBC, Bulchandani was previously Managing Director of Global Strategy of McCann, building and managing the Global Strategy Group that was focused on developing new and integrated ways of working for McCann’s Global Brands. Earlier, beginning in 2005, she was Chief Strategy Officer of McCann’s New York office, where she led a group of 50 strategists who developed core marketing concepts such as the “Easy Button” for Staples and others for clients such as Verizon.

A member of the McCann family since 1997, Bulchandani and her husband live in New York City with their son and daughter, whom they are bringing up respectively to be an enlightened man who will champion strong women and a strong woman who will break barriers. Bulchandani is obsessed with raising her children to be culturally 100% Indian, 100% American, and 100% global and open-minded.

Bulchandani has won Effie Awards for Marketing Excellence and multiple 4As Jay Chiat Awards for Excellence in Strategic Planning. She also was honored as a “Working Mother of the Year” by She Runs It (formerly Advertising Women of New York) and with the AdColor “Innovator Award”—an accolade presented to professionals of multicultural background that is sponsored by top industry associations including the AAF, ANA and 4A’s. Her industry and community work includes numerous Ad Council campaigns tackling issues such as childhood and adult obesity as well as parental viewing control.

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Javier Campopiano

Partner and Chief Creative Officer

FCB Mexico

Javier Campopiano

Partner and Chief Creative Officer

FCB Mexico

Javier Campopiano, partner and CCO of FCB Mexico, began his advertising career in 1997, as co-owner of a small design and communication studio in Buenos Aires.

His desire to flourish in the industry led him to seek bigger clients and opportunities that would enable him to collaborate with local, regional and global brands. He held key creative positions in agencies such as Ogilvy, JWT, Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, and DraftFCB in Buenos Aires.

Campopiano is from Argentina and before joining FCB Mexico, he worked for Saatchi & Saatchi New York as CCO beginning in 2016, after having headed the creative management for Saatchi & Saatchi’s multicultural agency Conill Saatchi & Saatchi and Saatchi & Saatchi Latin America, based in Miami. During his tenure at Saatchi, Campopiano was recognized for having rekindled the creative reputation of the network in the United States, as he developed the most awarded projects for clients such as Toyota, Walmart and Procter & Gamble, among others. He was the mastermind behind the outstanding campaigns for Tide during the Super Bowl, “Bradshaw Stain” and “It’s a Tide Ad,” as well as “The Receipt” and "The Box" for Walmart at the Academy Awards. In 2017, he took Saatchi NY to one of its best years in history at Cannes with 13 Lions, five of them gold.

Campopiano is a multicultural creative leader with over 20 years of career. “It’s a Tide Ad” at the Super Bowl was awarded with the Cannes Grand Prix in Film, alongside with one Titanium, one Gold, two Silver and two Bronze Lions. It also received the coveted Black Pencil honor at D&AD.

Campopiano is the proud recipient of more than 45 Lions at Cannes, including a Grand Prix for Outdoor, several Gold, Silver and Bronze awards at the Clios, LIA, ANA, the One Show, D& D, El Círculo de Creativos Argentinos, FIAP, El Sol and El Ojo de Iberoamérica. He has been a jury member at Cannes, the Clios, the New York Festivals, El Sol, Wave, FIAP, El Ojo de Iberoamérica and Festival de Antigua and has been the jury president for OHH at El Círculo de Creativos Argentinos. Recently, he was a member of the Jury’s Film in LIA and he will be resident of the Jury’s Film in El Ojo de Iberoamérica.

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Ann-Christine Diaz

Editor, Creativity

Ad Age

Ann-Christine Diaz

Editor, Creativity

Ad Age

Ann-Christine Diaz is the Creativity Editor at Ad Age and oversees sibling site Creativity (Creativity- online.com). She has been covering the creative world of advertising and marketing for more than a decade. Outside of the job, she can be found getting in touch with her own creativity. Follow her at @annzo on Twitter.

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Jenny Gadd

Global Head of Production

Airbnb

Jenny Gadd

Global Head of Production

Airbnb

Jenny Gadd is the Global Head of Production at Airbnb in San Francisco.

After 20 years of working on every aspect of production—advertising agencies, production companies, digital agencies—she is now in-house at one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Gadd leads Airbnb’s internal production team, a global team with offices in multiple countries comprised of producers, filmmakers and photographers.

A Swedish native, Gadd’s career spans several countries and culture-defining brands like Coca-Cola and Google. A woman with many accolades and who has worn many hats (Executive Director of Content Production at Ogilvy & Mather New York, Head of Integrated Production at Johannes Leonardo, Managing Director at North Kingdom and Executive Producer at Believe Media, to name a few), Gadd is truly passionate about creating work that goes beyond an advertising campaign to shift perception and become part of culture.

Known as a force with a compassionate spirit, Gadd’s lifework has been punctuated with nonprofit work. She volunteered in the Tsunami area in Southeast Asia, did charity work in Cambodia and India and spent a year as Director of Strategic Partnerships for Maui Film Festival.

Gadd lives with her husband and their 11-year-old-son in Mill Valley, CA.

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Neil Heymann

Chief Creative Officer

Droga5 New York

Neil Heymann

Chief Creative Officer

Droga5 New York

Neil Heymann is the Chief Creative Officer at Droga5 New York, serving as the creative leader and guiding Droga5 into its next chapter while continuing to push boundaries in the world of integrated brand experiences and communications. Over the course of his professional career, Neil has worked with some of the world’s most high-profile clients and agencies in the design, interactive and advertising fields.

Heymann joined Droga5 in 2009 after starting his career in Sydney, Australia at Amnesia and TEQUILA\TBWA and had stints at Crispin, Porter + Bogusky and Y&R stateside.

Throughout his tenure at Droga5, Heymann has been at the center of many of Droga5’s most effective, influential and ambitious campaigns, helping lead the agency to 11 Ad Age A-List Agency of the Year wins as well as two recognitions by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.

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Menno Kluin

Chief Creative Officer

360i

Menno Kluin

Chief Creative Officer

360i

Menno Kluin serves as chief creative officer for award-winning ad agency 360i, where he oversees creative work for clients including HBO, Nespresso, Oreo and Mini USA. Under his creative leadership, 360i was named to Ad Age’s A-List 2018, recognizing the top 10 ad agencies in the country.

Menno has a proven track record of creative success, garnering hundreds of industry accolades including 30 Cannes Lions, 25 One Show Pencils and more. He joined 360i from Deutsch, where he led creative for brands like Sherwin-Williams, WATERisLIFE, Shock Top, Green Giant and Children’s Museum of the Arts. While there, he championed the creation of Krylon’s “The First Ever Pinterest Yard Sale", which picked up honors including a Titanium Lion at Cannes, numerous Pencils from One Show and D&AD, and Adweek’s Media Plan of the Year, among others. Other career achievements include the creation of a drinkable book for WATERisLIFE, which was named one of the Top 25 inventions of the year by Time magazine, and working with the New York City Ballet to mark 9/11 with “New Beginnings,” a ballet performance on top of the new World Trade Center at sunrise on Sept. 12.

Prior to Deutsch, he was at DDB New York, where he served as executive creative director and head of art. During his tenure, the agency was named Creativity's Agency to Watch in the Ad Age A-List, the Third Most Awarded Agency in the U.S. in the Gunn Report and Design Agency of the Year at Young Guns.

At Y&R NY, he served as creative director and head of art, where he elevated the quality and the craft of the work, helping the agency become the most-awarded U.S. shop and runner-up for Agency of the Year at the Cannes Lions and crowned Digital Agency of the Year at the Young Guns.

Menno started his career at Saatchi & Saatchi NY, where he earned accolades for his work for clients including JCPenney and Procter & Gamble. Within Menno's first two years in the industry, he was named Most Awarded Art Director Worldwide by Creativity and was ranked one of the Top 50 Young Creatives in the world by the New York Art Directors Club.

Menno grew up in the Netherlands. He currently resides in Brooklyn.

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Alexandra Tanguay

Senior Global Brand Director

Spotify

Alexandra Tanguay

Senior Global Brand Director

Spotify

Alexandra Tanguay is senior global brand director at Spotify.

Since joining the global music streaming platform in 2014, Tanguay has overseen the growth of Spotify’s brand team, and today she leads the company’s brand direction, brand and social strategy, and social impact teams. She was instrumental in evolving Spotify’s internal creative studio into a premier creative group, leading global campaigns for Spotify as well as individual launches for artist marketing and Spotify original content.

Tanguay’s work at Spotify includes the revamp of Spotify’s Visual Identity System, the award-winning “Thanks, 2016...It’s Been Weird” holiday campaign, 2017’s “I’m with the Banned” and artist marketing efforts with the likes of Justin Bieber, Cardi B, Gucci Mane, Childish Gambino, the Migos, Pharrell, Janelle Monáe, Justin Timberlake and Lauryn Hill, to name a few. With creativity and strategy at the heart of her work, Tanguay has inspired a creative-approach to ideating and executing across Spotify. Her leadership has helped to widen the lens on culture that Spotify speaks through.

Tanguay’s diverse experience includes in-house and agency work, along with short stints in publishing and fashion. Before joining Spotify, Tanguay worked for brands such as Nike, Jordan Brand, Mondelez International, JetBlue, Beats by Dr. Dre, Moët Hennessy, Sprite, Converse and the NBA, helping them connect better to their consumers through emotionally and culturally relevant brand narratives and experiences.

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Scott Vitrone

Partner and Chief Creative Officer

FIG

Scott Vitrone

Partner and Chief Creative Officer

FIG

Scott Vitrone is Partner and Chief Creative Officer at FIG. His first-ever “professional” ad won a Gold Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and he has since gone on to win several more Gold Lions—as well as many other industry awards—for his work. Vitrone led the creation of the iconic “Whatever’s Comfortable” campaign for Southern Comfort, and in 2007, after writing a Skittles campaign that is still running today, he was the most awarded creative in the world.

During his career, Vitrone has helped shape work for Nike, ESPN, Delta Airlines, CNN, Heineken, Target, Virgin Atlantic, Land Rover, Miller Brewing Company, Sprint and FedEx. He is also an Emmy winner.

 

 

 

 

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John Boiler

Founder and Creative Co-Chair

72andSunny

John Boiler

Founder and Creative Co-Chair

72andSunny

John Boiler is the Founder and Creative Co-Chair of 72andSunny, an ideas company that exists to expand and diversify the creative class and drive brand transformations. The agency has offices in Los Angeles, New York, Amsterdam, Sydney and Singapore.

72andSunny has been recognized as Agency of the Year by both Ad Age and Adweek twice as well as earning top honors on Ad Age’s Agency A-List for five years in a row, most recently in 2018.

In an effort to stir industry-wide progress, John helped launch the 72andSunny Playbook, an open-source guide to the agency’s diversity efforts in 2017. The Playbook outlines the successes and challenges of 72andSunny’s diversity initiatives with the intention of helping other companies implement their own. With John’s leadership and guidance, 72andSunny is also one of the founding partners of the Creative Alliance, created by Civic Nation, a non-profit, non-partisan organization established during the Obama administration, which uses organizing, engagement and public awareness to address some of the nation’s most pressing challenges, including White House-launched initiatives.

For the past five years, 72andSunny has partnered with DaVinci Schools, a charter school network that serves students from more than 80 zip codes and a variety of ethnic backgrounds, helping developing curriculum for high school students while also offering workshops, bootcamps, internships and mentorship programs.

Prior to founding 72andSunny, John was a designer and executive creative director for Wieden+Kennedy, spending time in both Portland and Amsterdam, where he helped expand the office from 25 staffers to 180 during his tenure. John’s advertising work has been recognized at every major award show, garnering multiple golds in Cannes, One Show, and D&AD, to name a few.

As one of Los Angeles Business Journal’s 500 Most Influential Leaders in Los Angeles, John is a member of Mayor Garcetti’s Council for Technology and Innovation, and serves on the American Advertising Federation Executive Committee on digital innovation. In their personal time, John and his wife Kari are involved in several charities focusing on water-related issues including The Thirst Project, which has brought access to clean drinking water and sanitation to the Ugandan Island of Buvuma through the installation of 22 wells this year. John and 72andSunny have also partnered with Frank Gehry and Gehry Partners on the River LA initiative, aimed at rehabilitating 51 miles along the LA River Corridor.

The Boilers are also active University of Oregon alumni, having founded The Boiler Family Fund for Experiential Learning, which sends a group of University of Oregon Journalism School faculty and students to research and create in the Alaskan wilderness each year.

John’s favorite pastimes are surfing and snowboarding with his family, fishing at his cabin on the Rogue River, mountain biking in the desert, and standing over the grill on Sundays.

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Ayiko Broyard

Executive Vice President and Group Account Director

Walton Isaacson

Ayiko Broyard

Executive Vice President and Group Account Director

Walton Isaacson

Ayiko Broyard is executive vice president and group account director at Walton Isaacson. Broyard joined Walton Isaacson in September of 2007 as the lead for the Lexus Black marketing and advertising business. In 2008, WI was awarded the LGBT marketing business and the Hispanic marketing business in 2009, which she leads from WI’s Los Angeles office. Services for Lexus include national and local advertising, digital and website development, events and experiential, public relations and social media. She spearheaded the Lexus-Marvel Black Panther partnership (a general market campaign), leading to historic media results of over 5 billion impressions and counting. The Black Panther initiative included car integration in to the film, a Super Bowl spot, a limited-edition Lexus-themed Black Panther graphic novel, a West Coast Customs customized Black Panther Lexus LC that is currently on tour around the country, an exclusive New York Fashion Week integration and ongoing initiatives post-release.

She co-created the television series “Verses and Flow,” an original format variety show that featured spoken-word artists and musical performances from R&B music's top acts. Created as an entertainment property for Lexus, the show was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and aired for five seasons on TVOne.

With Broyard at the lead, McDonald's retained WI in 2013 to produce the first televised broadcast of McDonald's 365Black Awards. WI has grown that relationship to become its AOR for experiential activations for the black segment. The agency oversees its cornerstone activations, including Essence Festival, HBCU Classics, Complex Con and the Stellar Awards.

Broyard also consults the agency on product placement initiatives. She has a rich history of developing advertising and entertainment initiatives for Fortune 500 brands. Prior to joining WI, Broyard served as the vice president of marketing for translation for two years, when she ran its Los Angeles office and managed a number of accounts including HP, Verizon, Levis, P&G and Reebok. While at Translation, she produced the multimillion-dollar HP Internet commercial campaign featuring Gwen Stefani, which won the Internet Buzz Award for HP. She led the Crest account for Translation and implemented such initiatives as the “Crest Healthy Smiles” web campaign featuring Mary J. Blige, and the Crest/Facebook Style State viral marketing.

Prior to Translation, Broyard served as the director of music marketing at Omnicom’s Davie-Brown Entertainment for five years. Creating the music marketing department there, she led that agency’s efforts in developing their music marketing and product placement initiatives in television, film and special events for Reebok, Timberland, HP, Sauza Tequila, and Kahlua.

Broyard was named to Ad Age’s 2018 Women to Watch and was also awarded the 2018 ColorComm Circle Award, the highest honor given to women of color in the communications industry. Her leadership also landed her among the 2016 “Black Enterprise Top Women Executives in Advertising and Marketing.” Originally from the Bay Area, Broyard splits her time between Los Angeles and Dallas and is the mother of three sons.

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Karrelle Dixon

Managing Director

Wieden & Kennedy Portland

Karrelle Dixon

Managing Director

Wieden & Kennedy Portland

Karrelle Dixon is the managing director of Wieden & Kennedy Portland and is also an agency stakeholder, a global group of leaders focused on growing opportunities for the next generation of W&K.

Dixon is a true product of the W&K network. He began his 12-year tenure with the agency as an account manager for Nike based out of W&K London. He moved to Portland, Oregon, in 2011 to be closer to Nike’s global headquarters and quickly moved up the ranks to global account director for the brand, leading W&K’s largest account and expanding the agency-brand relationship into new markets like Brazil, Korea and India. This further dimensionalized the relationship between W&K and Nike and bolstered a truly global partnership with creative impact across all eight W&K offices around the world.

As a proven leader on one of our most successful and innovative accounts, Dixon took on a new role as director of growth markets in 2016, supporting W&K’s offices in Shanghai, Tokyo and Delhi, where he focused on extending agency-client relationships to a variety of key regions before returning to Portland in 2017 as managing director.

Under his leadership and with strong partners across the network, W&K was recently recognized as Advertising Age’s Agency of the Year (2017) and Adweek’s Global Agency of the Year (2017) and was ranked No. 1 on Fast Company’s 2018 Most Innovative list for marketing and advertising.

Dixon started his career at Fallon London working on new business and the BBC.

In a previous life, Dixon was a professional rugby player for the London Wasps and was awarded the prestigious Oxford Blue award while studying for his second master’s degree in psychology at the University of Oxford (his first master’s was from Brunel University London).

He is passionate about sports and competition and has an opinion on every type of sporting endeavor, from tiddlywinks to MMA.

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Corinna Falusi

Chief Content Officer and Partner

Mother New York

Corinna Falusi

Chief Content Officer and Partner

Mother New York

Corinna Falusi is a globally awarded and recognized creative, with extensive experience creating multichannel campaigns for global, U.S. and Pan-European brands. Her client list includes fast German cars (BMW), department store retailers (Target), delectable beers (Stella Artois and Heineken) and intergovernmental organizations (United Nations). Her work on Coca-Cola and Heineken Champions League ran in over 100 countries in a dozen languages.

Falusi started her career at Jung von Matt in Hamburg, Germany, followed by a decade at StrawberryFrog in both Amsterdam and New York before spending nearly five years at Ogilvy & Mather New York, where she was named CCO in January 2015. At Ogilvy, she was leading creative for the agency’s most iconic brands: Coca-Cola, Coke Zero, Ikea, Vitaminwater, American Express, Tiffany, Spotify and UPS.

She joined Mother in New York as partner and CCO in 2016 and leads creative for the agency. Falusi was recently featured in Adweek’s 2016 Creative Top 50. Her work has been recognized by all the major award-shows, including D&AD, Cannes Lions, TED and One Show.

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Kay Hsu

Global Lead and Director for Instagram

Facebook’s Creative Shop

Kay Hsu

Global Lead and Director for Instagram

Facebook’s Creative Shop

Kay Hsu is the Global Lead and Director for Instagram at Facebook’s Creative Shop. She focuses on strategic, scaled storytelling and building a world class advertising experience on Instagram that people and creatives love. Hsu joined Facebook after more than decade at agencies like Iris, Huge and LBI where she drove strategic media plans to sell everything from soda to mobile phones to shoes. Inspired by ethnography, Hsu has always been drawn to learning why people do the things they do.

An award-winning advertiser with deep experience in creative, brand, communications and digital planning, Hsu's clients benefit from her passion for qualitative research and analysis. Her strategic mind has been tapped by brands like: TOMS, Sony, Diageo, Seamless.com, J&J and Nike. At LBi, she won a Jay Chiat for achievement for best new brand for the brand relaunch of Seamless.com, as well as a Webby for the Sony Xperia Creators Program, gaining industry-wide recognition.

Hsu started out in market research at MKTG, has a M.A. in marketing and communications from Cal State Fullerton and lives in New York with her giant husband, Tony. In her spare time, Hsu co-hosts a weekly podcast focused on her passion for memes, called The Meme Team.

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David Rolfe

EVP, Director of Integrated Production

BBDO New York

David Rolfe

EVP, Director of Integrated Production

BBDO New York

As Director of Production, Dave Rolfe oversees all of BBDO’s production areas. Rolfe joined BBDO in 2012 to help the agency break new barriers with innovation, agility and cross-medium work. Rolfe spent much of his career at Crispin, Porter + Bogusky as a partner and global lead of CPB’s production forays into digital and innovation throughout the 2000s. Rolfe also ran Production at DDB Chicago for a short period in 2006 and 2007.

Rolfe has garnered nearly every content and innovation award based on work with clients like AT&T, GE, Bacardi, Anheuser-Bush and MINI. His production leadership has extended into multicultural and global oversight on accounts such as Burger King, Microsoft, Pepsi, Ikea and VW. He was named to the Entertainment Jury at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and is increasingly sought-after as a speaker at Cannes as well as other global media and marketing forums.

Now the industry standard, Rolfe founded “Integrated Production” in 2002 at CPB, highlighting the need to systemically evolve capabilities of production departments. He now leads the charge at BBDO with a new model, guided by the “5C’s of Production.”

Rolfe and his wife Tiffany Rolfe live in New York with their two young children.

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I-Hsien Sherwood

Associate Creativity Editor

Ad Age

I-Hsien Sherwood

Associate Creativity Editor

Ad Age

I-Hsien Sherwood is associate creativity editor at Ad Age. Previously, he was the editor of Campaign US and senior editor of the news startup Latin Post. He is a punctuation fundamentalist and a great judge of character. He lives in Brooklyn, of course.

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Lisa Topol

Co-CCO

DDB New York

Lisa Topol

Co-CCO

DDB New York

Lisa Topol serves as co-CCO at DDB New York alongside her creative partner Derek Barnes. Named one of the top 30 creative women in advertising by Business Insider, Topol has an impressive resume, with leadership creative experience at several top agencies. In addition to Grey, Wieden+Kennedy and Oglivy, she spent three years as GCD at TBWA\Chiat\Day, where she led the creative teams on several brands, including the teams that produced Gold Lion-winning work on Wheat Thins, Keep a Child Alive and Kahlua. She also wouldn’t say no to a good tampon campaign, and changed the game with her ideas for U by Kotex at JWT.

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Debbi Vandeven

Global Chief Creative Officer

VMLY&R

Debbi Vandeven

Global Chief Creative Officer

VMLY&R

Debbi Vandeven is the global chief creative officer at VMLY&R, a brand experience agency the delivers contemporary, fully-integrated digital and creative offerings to clients on a global scale. VMLY&R combines brand experience and brand advertising, drawing on the complementary expertise of agencies VML and Y&R to create connected brands that drive value for clients.

Vandeven helped lead VML to being named on the Ad Age Agency A-List in 2018, 2017 and 2016. She was recently honored as a part of Adweek’s Creative 100 and Business Insider’s “The 30 Most Creative People in Advertising 2016” list.

Since joining VML in 2000, Vandeven has continually fostered a collaborative creative environment that delivers smart and innovative solutions to clients around the world, including Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Electrolux/Frigidaire, Ford, Gatorade, Mastercard, New Balance, PepsiCo, QuikTrip and Wendy’s. Her creative philosophy focuses on the idea rather than a specific channel, and she encourages teams to approach any project from this perspective. It’s this approach that’s at the heart of VMLY&R’s mission to move brands forward by creating connections across the connected consumer experience.

Vandeven has served on several international award show juries, including ANDY Awards, Art Directors Club (2018 jury chair), Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity (2018 entertainment jury president), CLIO Awards (2016 digital jury chair), IAB MIXX Awards, Loeries, New York Festivals, and One Show Interactive, and has judged Best Ads multiple times.

VML experienced unprecedented growth and award recognition under her leadership, earning accolades from top international shows, including Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, ANDY Awards, Art Directors Club, CLIO Awards, Effie Awards, Facebook Awards, London International Awards, New York Festivals, One Show, Spikes Asia, Webby Awards and more. At Cannes Lions in 2018, the agency received 21 Lions and 62 shortlists with work from 10 offices for 21 clients. VML was also named Entertainment Agency of the Year for the second year in a row. Overall, the VMLY&R network ranked sixth globally.

This year, Vandeven was part of the founding group of female agency leaders who launched Time’s Up/Advertising to address the industry’s pervasive problems with sexual harassment and gender inequality. She was named one of Ad Age’s Women to Watch in 2014 and is a strong supporter of initiatives advancing women in creative leadership and mentoring talent to help women develop the interpersonal skills it takes to succeed in today’s industry. This mindset contributed to VML being named one of the two first-ever 3% certified agencies in 2017.

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Sarah Watson

Global Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman

BBH NY

Sarah Watson

Global Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman

BBH NY

Sarah Watson is Global Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman of BBH NY. She joined BBH London in 2001 and came to BBH New York seven years ago. In New York, she has worked with clients such as PlayStation, Netflix, Nest, Seamless and Google Chrome. She is passionate about how creative thinking can transform business outcomes for brands. In her global role, she works with a diverse community of strategists to share its cutting-edge strategic thinking.

Watson is a signatory to Times Up Advertising. She was the inaugural Cannes Lions See It Be It Ambassador, speaker at The 3% Conference, founder of Griffin Farley’s Search for Beautiful Minds and works as strategic advisor to non-profits like Gender Avenger. She has two young daughters and lives in Greenwich Village, New York.

 

 

 

 

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Cindy Gallop

Founder and CEO

MakeLoveNotPorn

Cindy Gallop

Founder and CEO

MakeLoveNotPorn

Cindy Gallop is a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, and she has more than 30 years of experience in brand-building, marketing and advertising. She started the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in 1998 in New York and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year. Currently, Gallop is the founder and CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld, a co-action software launched in beta at TED 2010 and subsequently taught as a Harvard Business School case study, which enables brands to implement the business model of the future: Shared Values + Shared Action = Shared Profit (financial and social). She is also the founder of MakeLoveNotPorn—"Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference”—a social sex-tech platform designed to promote good sexual behavior and values, which she launched at TED 2009, and for which she has just raised $2 million to build out mlnp.tv as “the social sex revolution.” As a result of the funding challenges Gallop has encountered, she is raising the world’s first and only sex-tech fund, AllTheSky Holdings.

Gallop acts as board adviser to a number of tech ventures, works as a personal brand/life/executive coach and consults on brand and business innovation for companies around the world, describing her consultancy approach as “I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.” Business Insider named her one of 15 Most Important Marketing Strategy Thinkers Today, alongside Malcolm Gladwell and Seth Godin, and cited her as No. 33 on its list of 100 Most Influential Tech Women on Twitter, and No. 1 on its list of Top 30 People In Advertising to Follow on Twitter. Campaign named her No. 1 on its list of Top 10 Trailblazers for both 2016 and 2017.

Gallop has a reputation as a highly compelling and inspirational speaker at conferences and events around the world on a variety of topics. Her talks on the future of advertising and marketing have been described on Twitter as: “The most brilliant speech on the future of advertising ever—not the usual buzzword-laden bullshit”; “Watching @cindygallop slice and dice the ad industry status quo like a ginsu knife. #purewin”; and “There must be a DeLorean parked outside, because Cindy Gallop is from the FUTURE!” Influencer Con NYC introduced her like this: “Cindy Gallop is the truth Jack Nicholson told Tom Cruise he couldn’t handle.” Together with Susan Credle of FCB and Rob Reilly of McCann, Gallop is one of three Campaign Review Committee chairs for the Ad Council in the U.S., helping to make the work great. She is an outspoken advocate of diversity and inclusion in advertising, tech and business; she was jury president at Cannes Lions 2015 for the inaugural Glass Lion awards, proposed by Sheryl Sandberg to celebrate advertising that shatters gender stereotypes, and in 2017 digital agency R/GA turned her into a chatbot for Equal Pay Day that helps women ask for a raise (search “AskCindyGallop” on Facebook and chat to CindyBot on Facebook Messenger). Gallop has published “Make Love Not Porn: Technology’s Hardcore Impact on Human Behavior” as a TEDBook and is currently working on a book about what the world will look like when women share power equally with men. You can follow her on Twitter @cindygallop.

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Andy Blacker

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Gifnote

Andy Blacker

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Gifnote

Andy Blacker helped start Audiobyte because the silence in texts that he sent and received felt like a giant void for the avid music fan. He loves music, lyrics, live shows and concerts, and the way they bring people together. He is laser-focused on delivering music to texting because the pairing and sharing of sight and sound will transform communication for fans, artists and the industry. His favorite band is TheEnd (His 6th grade son, Braden Storm, is the band’s lead vocalist). His other favs include 21 Pilots, Logic, The Avett Brothers, The Beastie Boys, Sara Bareilles, Kendrick Lamar, The Foo Fighters and Willie Nelson. When he’s not working or being a great dad and husband, you might catch him watching the most recent Netflix documentary, going on a late-night Adidas sneaker-buying spree, or catching a show at Jones Beach. “You can’t beat the tailgate and seeing your favorite band, playing on the water as the sun sets. It is truly an experience,” says Blacker.

Blacker has a penchant for startups and dove into the tech industry in 1994 as one of the very first employees of the Internet search engine Infoseek, where he ultimately became Director of Business Development and Partnerships. Following Infoseek, he took on digital marketing strategy roles at AOL and Discovery. After those roles he joined the founding management team of ToneMedia, where he helped lead the mobile music platform reach 120 million users and achieve an acquisition by Bandsintown Group.

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Heather Dietrick

CEO

The Daily Beast

Heather Dietrick

CEO

The Daily Beast

Heather Dietrick is CEO of The Daily Beast. Previously, she was president of Gizmodo Media Group (formerly Gawker Media), leading day-to-day operations and driving strategic integration into its acquiring entity, Univision Communications. Before this position, she was president and general counsel of Gawker Media, overseeing business strategy and day-to-day operations, including editorial, advertising and business development. At Gawker Media, she also served on the board of directors, providing strategic advice to steer the company toward a successful asset sale.

Before joining Gawker, Dietrick worked as First Amendment fellow and counsel at Hearst Corp., as a law clerk in the Eastern District of New York and as an associate at Goodwin Procter, where she practiced trademark and patent litigation and prosecution. Dietrick was previously co-chair of the American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law. She holds a J.D. and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Georgetown University.

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Kat Gordon

Founder and CEO

3 Percent Movement

Kat Gordon

Founder and CEO

3 Percent Movement

Kat Gordon has been called a “triple threat” as an entrepreneur, ad woman and marketing-to-women expert and was named one of the “30 Most Creative Women in Advertising” by Business Insider in 2016, Visionary of the Year by Ad Age in 2018 and one of Ad Age’s “Forty Over 40” women disrupting the world in 2014. She is the visionary behind 3 Percent Movement. Started as a passion project to spotlight a huge business opportunity in advertising—the lack of female creative leadership and its impact on connecting with an overwhelmingly female marketplace—3 Percent Movement has grown exponentially since its 2012 launch, including hosting events in 17 cities globally and offering consulting and certification programs that amplify creative cultures.

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Jonathan Jackson

Co-Founder, former Head of Corporate Brand

Blavity, Inc.

Jonathan Jackson

Co-Founder, former Head of Corporate Brand

Blavity, Inc.

Jonathan Jackson is co-founder and former Head of Corporate Brand at Blavity, the largest media platform and lifestyle brand for Black millennials. Jackson worked to push its story and ideology to new markets, establish strategic partnerships and foundations and produce compelling thought-leadership content around the next generation of makers and creatives. He worked closely with senior leadership and executives who were looking to retain and engage with new audiences and drive sustained financial growth.

Jackson is currently the 2019 Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. His work is centered around the emergence of black media in the digital age, examining new ways to measure black cultural influence and its effect on the media and advertising landscape both domestically and abroad.

Prior to Blavity, Jackson worked across various roles at LinkedIn across HR and advertising, and most recently as an editor overseeing the Influencer program, which brings together 500 of the world’s top thought leaders to engage with LinkedIn’s 580MM members through rich insights and original content.

As a speaker, Jackson has lectured at Harvard Business School, Moody’s, The United Nations, Pandora, MEC and other global brands and Fortune 500 companies. He is the recipient of the Digital Diversity Network’s 2017 Culture Catalyst Award, recognized as a trendsetter and influencer in the digital and tech zeitgeist. He sits on the Nielsen African-American External Advisory Council, Sparks & Honey Global Advisory Board and is an active board member at HBCU.VC, a 5013c organization focused on equipping the next generation of Black and Latinx students looking to get involved in venture capital.

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Ben Kaufman

Head

Buzzfeed Commerce

Ben Kaufman

Head

Buzzfeed Commerce

Ben Kaufman is the head of BuzzFeed Commerce, a fast-growing division of BuzzFeed focused on social commerce, consumer product development, licensing partnerships and other new extensions of BuzzFeed and its brands. In a little under two years with the company, Kaufman has spearheaded a number of innovative social commerce projects, including the Tasty One Top smart induction cooktop, social products including the Glamspin, and Tasty’s multiyear product and content partnership with Walmart. Prior to BuzzFeed, Kaufman founded Apple accessory company Mophie and social invention platform Quirky. Throughout his career, he has been obsessed with speeding up the design, manufacturing and marketing processes of unique products.

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David Nichols

Ernst & Young LLP

Principal, Global Client Service Partner

David Nichols

Ernst & Young LLP

Principal, Global Client Service Partner

David Nichols is Principal and Global Client Service Partner at Ernst & Young LLP. In this role, he has global responsibility for managing some of Ernst & Young’s largest client relationships. Nichols also serves as the go-to-market leader for Central Region Innovation and Technology.

Nichols previously served as a member of the Executive Committee on Ernst & Young’s Advisory services line and was the Americas Advisory Inorganic Growth Leader with responsibility for driving new growth opportunities in Advisory through innovation, strategic alliances and acquisitions.

Additionally, Nichols has served as Ernst & Young’s IT and Digital Transformation Leader for the Americas where he helped clients adopt technology and digital solutions into all aspects of their business strategy, operations and workforce. In this role, his primary focus was supporting senior executives to help bridge the gap between business and IT by providing solutions in the areas of strategic technology, technology management services, security, enterprise architecture services and technology infrastructure services.

Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Nichols was the Global Managing Partner for Accenture’s Service Oriented Architecture practice with global responsibility for resource growth, financial growth, marketing, strategy, capability development, delivery-asset development and internal and external communications.

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Tina Pautz

General Manager

Convertro

Tina Pautz

General Manager

Convertro

Tina Pautz serves as GM of Convertro, a leading marketing measurement, analytics and activation platform focused on integrating Convertro’s technology, people and assets into the broader Verizon Media Group platforms. She previously led client services and operations for Convertro, providing multi-touch, marketing mix and unified attribution solutions to a portfolio of global brands.

Prior to Convertro, Pautz led the account management, ad operations and implementation practices for Ad.com Dynamic Retargeter and was a key participant in its predecessor Buysight’s sale to AOL. She started her career in finance, working in asset management and real estate investment prior to joining Buysight as its seventh employee.

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Judann Pollack

Executive Editor

Ad Age

Judann Pollack

Executive Editor

Ad Age

Judann Pollack (Judy) is executive editor of Ad Age, overseeing both print and online editions of the publication. She joined Ad Age in 1985 as editorial assistant, along the way fielding pretty much every position on the masthead, including reporter, Chicago bureau chief, New York bureau chief, features editor, executive editor and managing editor-international. She has also worked in the PR department of Campbell Soup Co. and interned at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Casey Sheehan

Partner & Designer

Work & Co.

Casey Sheehan

Partner & Designer

Work & Co.

Casey Sheehan is a partner and designer at Work & Co. He’s known for transforming many of the world’s most admired brands—including Apple, Coca-Cola, Vans and Gucci—by creating radically different, meaningful digital experiences.

Prior to joining Work & Co, Sheehan was Executive Creative Director at Huge. There he launched Elephant, a unit sitting at the intersection of physical and digital products. Before Huge, he held leadership roles at SapientNitro—where he led the launch of Coca-Cola’s digital vending platform for the Beijing Olympics—and at Los Angeles-based Hello Design.

Throughout his career, Sheehan’s work has been recognized by dozens of publications and award festivals, including One Show and Cannes Lions. His collaboration with Apple netted the Titanium Lion in 2018. He is also passionate about designing technology solutions that solve real-world problems, which is at the heart of his ongoing work with Planned Parenthood.

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Matt Sunbulli

CEO and Cofounder

Fishbowl

Matt Sunbulli

CEO and Cofounder

Fishbowl

Matt Sunbulli is CEO and Cofounder of Fishbowl, a new social network that connects professionals with colleagues in their industry. Every day, professionals come to Fishbowl to have candid and relevant conversations with others in their space. The app has rapidly emerged as the digital congregation point for industry people in advertising, consulting, accounting and finance.

Sunbulli was previously cofounder and CEO of Social Amp, one of the first Facebook Preferred Marketing Agencies, acquired by Merkle (part of the Dentsu Aegis Network) in 2012. Social Amp’s clients included Levi's, Estee Lauder and and its work was showcased at Facebook’s F8 Developers Conference as well as the ad:tech Digital Marketing Conference. Prior to Social Amp, Sunbulli served as a digital product manager and innovator at Viacom MTV Networks where he pioneered the release of new social media technologies for MTV's digital properties including launching the first video blog.

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Christina (Tina) Wein

VP of Agency and Brand Development

InMobi

Christina (Tina) Wein

VP of Agency and Brand Development

InMobi

Christina (Tina) Wein is VP of Agency and Brand Development at InMobi, the largest independent mobile in-app advertising platform and a leading enterprise platform for marketers. In her current role, she runs sales efforts for all brand and performance solutions in North America. Prior to joining InMobi over three years ago, she was VP of Agency Development at Innovid, a leader in interactive video and connected TV. She has also held senior level positions at AOL, Yahoo! and DoubleClick, and has over 20 years of digital media and advertising technology experience.

Wein holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She is an avid traveler, competitive tennis and paddle tennis player, and fledgling but enthusiastic golfer.

 

 

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