Board of Directors

Pat Lafferty

Chairman

President

Translation LLC

Chris Macdonald

Vice Chairman

President

McCann North America

David J. Moore

Vice Chairman

Chairman, Xaxis

President, WPP Digital

Ann Rubin

Vice Chairman

VP, Branded Content & Global Creative

IBM Corporation

Gordon McLean

President & Chief Executive Officer

ANA Educational Foundation

Lou Aversano

Chief Executive Officer

Ogilvy USA

David Bell

Chairman

gyro, LLC

Judith Bookbinder

Vice President, Creative Director

Hearst Magazines

David Brot

EVP, Account Director

Leo Burnett USA

Chris Brown

President and Chief Executive Officer

DDB New York

Tony Cardinale

Co-Chair, Honors Night 2018
EVP, Strategy & Insights

NBCUniversal

Tim Castelli

President, National Sales, Mktg. & Partnerships

iHeartMedia

James Edmund Datri

President and CEO

American Advertising Federation

Peter DeNunzio

CEO

HELLOWORLD.com

Tara DeVeaux

Chief Marketing Officer

BBDO New York

Val DiFebo

Chief Executive Officer

Deutsch New York

Owen J. Dougherty

Chief Communications Officer

Grey Group

Daisy Expósito-Ulla

Chairman & CEO

d expósito & Partners

Belle Frank

Global Director, Strategic Integration & Growth

Y&R

Andy Goldberg

GM, Creative Lab and Global Creative Director

GE Corporate

Vita Harris

Global Chief Strategy Officer

FCB

Bill Imada

Chairman & Chief Connectivity Officer
IW Group, Inc.

Carole Irgang

President
Red Shoes Marketing

Tim Jones

Chief Executive Officer, Americas
Publicis Media

Marla Kaplowitz

President and CEO
4A’s

Brad Kay

Chair, AEF Digital Engagement Committee

President and Partner
SS+K

Paul Kurnit

Clinical Professor, Marketing, Pace University
President, PS Insights

Shelly Lazarus

Chairman Emeritus

Ogilvy USA

Clarence Lee, Ph.D.

S. C. Johnson School of Management

Cornell University

Dawn Lerman, Ph.D.

Chair, VPP Committee
Sr. Assoc. Dean of Research and Academic Innovation, Schools of Business
Exec. Director, Center for Positive Marketing

Fordham University

Robert Liodice

Chief Executive Officer

Association of National Advertisers

David Luna, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair of the Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business

Baruch College

Peter McGuinness

Chief Marketing and Brand Officer

Chobani

David Mechlin

Managing Partner

CoalHart Associates

Colin Mitchell

VP, Global Brand Marketing

McDonald’s

Nancy Rabstejnek Nichols

Co-Chair, Honors Night 2018
Senior Vice President, External Affairs

Weber Shandwick/Interpublic Group

William (Mack) O’Barr, Ph.D.

Editor: Advertising & Society Quarterly
Department of Cultural Anthropology

Duke University

Susan Popper

SVP, Experience Marketing

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise

Jef Richards, J.D., Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Advertising and PR Department

Michigan State University

Joseph A. Ripp

Chair, AEF Finance Committee
Founding Partner

Cannondale Capital Investors, LLC

Hayes Roth

Principal

HA Roth Consulting LLC

Cynthia Round

Brand Strategist

Independent Consultant

Jennifer Scanlon, Ph.D.

Professor of the Humanities in Gender and Women’s Studies

Bowdoin College

Linda Scott, Ph.D.

Said Business School

Oxford University

Denis Sison

Head of Marketing Excellence and Global Marketing Services Operations

Johnson & Johnson

Susan Smulyan, Ph.D.

Professor, American Studies
Director, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage

Brown University

Andrew Susman

Vice President, New York

Empower Media Marketing

Mark Truss

Worldwide Director of Brand Intelligence

J. Walter Thompson Company

Barry Wacksman

EVP, Global Chief Strategy Officer

R/GA

William H. Weintraub

Professor, School of Journalism and Communications

University of Colorado, Boulder

Paula Alex

Honorary Director

Previous President & CEO, AEF