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 Client Officer
Ogilvy

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 Executive Officer, Americas
Publicis Media

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
Chief Marketing and Brand Officer
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