Board of Directors
Officers
Val DiFebo
Chair
Chief Executive Officer
Deutsch New York
Nicki Grant
Vice Chair
SVP, Global Brand and Advertising
Mastercard
Bill Imada
Vice Chair
Chairman & Chief Connectivity Officer
IW Group, Inc.
Pat Lafferty
Vice Chair
President
APR
David J. Moore
Vice Chair
Chair, Finance Committee
Executive Chairman, Urban Pickleball Clubs
Nancy Rabstejnek Nichols
Vice Chair, Co-Chair, Honors Night
Gordon McLean
President & Chief Executive Officer
ANA Educational Foundation
Directors
Eric Austin
Vice President, Global Marketing & Media
Procter & Gamble
Lou Aversano
Chief Brand and Marketing Officer
Cigna
Michele Barlow
EVP, Enterprise Marketing
Bank of America
Tim Castelli
Vice President, Global Advertising Sales
Instacart
Daniel Cherry
SVP, General Manager
Adidas
Lisa Coleman, Ph.D.
President
Adler University
Daisy Expósito-Ulla
Chairman & CEO
d expósito & Partners
Nermin Eyuboglu, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing and Chair, Dept. of Marketing and International Business
Baruch College
Kathleen Franz, Ph.D.
Supervisory Museum Curator
Smithsonian Institution
Tasha Gilroy
Global Chief Belonging Officer
VML
Gareth Goodall
Chief Strategy Officer
Publicis Creative US
Vann Graves, Ed.D.
Executive Director
VCU Brandcenter
Amber Guild
Chief Executive Officer
McCann NY
Vita Harris
Global Chief Strategy Officer
FCB Global
Vince Hudson
Head of NA Business Marketing
Meta
Carole Irgang
Founder & Chief Marketing Officer
Red Shoes Marketing
Joe Kelly
SVP, Chief Talent Officer
Interpublic Group
Clarence Lee, Ph.D.
Co-Founder
Eisengard AI
Dawn Lerman, Ph.D.
Professor, Gabelli School of Business and
Exec. Director, Center for Positive Marketing
Fordham University
Bob Liodice
Chief Executive Officer
Association of National Advertisers
Jason Lonsdale
Head of Brand
The Travel Corporation
Chris Macdonald
Former Chairman and CEO
McCann
David Mataranglo
US Chief Executive Officer
KINESSO at Omnicom Media
Peter McGuinness
Chief Executive Officer
Impossible Foods
David Mechlin
Managing Partner
CoalHart Associates
Leah Meranus
Customer President
PMG
William (Mack) O’Barr, Ph.D.
Founding Editor: Advertising & Society Quarterly
Department of Cultural Anthropology
Duke University
Tiffany Perkins-Munn, Ph.D.
Managing Director, Head of Marketing Data & Analytics
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Darla Price
WPP Global Client Lead, Mondelez
WPP
Joe Prota
Global Director of Brand Marketing
IBM
Jef Richards, J.D., Ph.D.
Advertising and PR Department
Michigan State University
Hayes Roth
Principal
HA Roth Consulting LLC
Cynthia Round
Brand Strategist
Independent Consultant
Ann Rubin
EVP, Marketing, Communications & Events
4A’s
David Rubin
Chief Brand and Communications Officer
The New York Times
Van Sapp, Ph.D.
Vice President, External Affairs and Strategic Engagement
Tuskegee University
Denis Sison
Founder
Modern Marketing Xcellence
Andrea Spiegel
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
BermudAir
Mark Truss
Executive Director
Galileo Research and Strategy Consultancy
Barry Wacksman
Chairman and CRO
Proto
William H. Weintraub
Professor, School of Journalism and Communications
University of Colorado, Boulder
Paula Alex
Honorary Director
Previous President & CEO, AEF
