Board of Directors
Officers
Chris Macdonald
Chair
Chairman and CEO
McCann
Vita Harris
Vice Chair
Global Chief Strategy Officer
FCB Global
Bill Imada
Vice Chair
Chairman & Chief Connectivity Officer
IW Group, Inc.
Pat Lafferty
Vice Chair
Chief Operating Officer
Acceleration Community of Companies
David J. Moore
Vice Chair
Chair, Finance Committee
Chief Executive Officer, BritePool
Nancy Rabstejnek Nichols
Vice Chair, Co-Chair, Honors Night
Senior Vice President, External Affairs
Weber Shandwick/Interpublic Group
Ann Rubin
Vice Chair
VP, Branded Content & Global Creative
IBM Corporation
Gordon McLean
President & Chief Executive Officer
ANA Educational Foundation
Directors
Lou Aversano
Global Chief Brand Officer
Cigna
David Bell
Chairman
gyro, LLC
Judith Bookbinder
Vice President, Creative Director
Hearst Magazines
David Brot
EVP, Account Director
Leo Burnett USA
Jeff Buchan
Head of Global Industry Relations
Tony Cardinale
EVP, Strategy & Insights
NBCUniversal
Tim Castelli
President, National Sales, Mktg. & Partnerships
iHeartMedia
Daniel Cherry
General Manager and SVP
DC Comics
Lisa Coleman, Ph.D.
SVP, Global Inclusion and Strategic Innovation
New York University
Peter DeNunzio
CEO, Global Loyalty
Merkle
Val DiFebo
Chief Executive Officer
Deutsch New York
Owen J. Dougherty
Chief Communications Officer
Grey Group
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
Belle Frank
Global Director, Strategic Integration & Growth
VMLY&R
Vince Hudson
SVP, Global Brand Strategy and Marketing Operations
American Express
Carole Irgang
Chief Marketing Officer
Red Shoes Marketing
Tim Jones
Chief Operating Officer
Publicis Group Marketing Services
Marla Kaplowitz
President and CEO
4A’s
Eileen Kiernan
Global Chief Executive Officer
UM
Paul Kurnit
Clinical Professor, Marketing, Pace University
President, PS Insights
Clarence Lee, Ph.D.
S. C. Johnson School of Management
Cornell University
Dawn Lerman, Ph.D.
Chair, VPP Committee
Professor, Gabelli School of Business and
Exec. Director, Center for Positive Marketing
Fordham University
Robert Liodice
Chief Executive Officer
Association of National Advertisers
Peter McGuinness
President
Chobani
David Mechlin
Managing Partner
CoalHart Associates
William (Mack) O’Barr, Ph.D.
Editor: Advertising & Society Quarterly
Department of Cultural Anthropology
Duke University
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
Van Sapp, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Business, Management and Technology
Saint Augustine’s University
Jennifer Scanlon, Ph.D.
Professor of the Humanities in Gender and Women’s Studies
Bowdoin College
Denis Sison
Founder
Modern Marketing Xcellence
Andrea Spiegel
Managing Director, Partner
VSA New York
Andrew Susman
Principal Member
New Value Associates
Mark Truss
Worldwide Director of Brand Intelligence
Wunderman Thompson
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
