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Jeffrey Cole Director USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future |
Jeffrey Cole has been at the forefront of media and communication technology issues in both the United States and internationally for the past 25 years. An expert in the field of technology and emerging media, Cole serves as an adviser to governments and leading companies around in the world as they craft digital strategies.
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Harit Talwar President - US Cards Discover Financial Services |
Harit Talwar is President - U.S. Cards, for Discover Financial Services and as a member of the company's Executive Committee plays a key role in driving overall strategy. He is a senior business leader in global financial services with over 20 years of experience in cards, retail banking & payments in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
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Paul D'Alessandro Partner Diamond Management and Technology Consultants |
Paul D'Alessandro, a Partner at Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, leads the firm's Customer Impact practice. With an extensive background in high-tech and consumer product Experience Design (xD). Paul's specialization is in the creation of unique customer experiences that blend the physical place (retail, home, workplace) with virtual environments (online communities, mobility solutions, word of mouth networks).
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Juli Spottiswood CEO & President Parago |
Ms. Spottiswood helped form Parago in early 1999 as the company's CFO and was promoted to President and CEO in 2007. She is responsible for strategic expansion of the company's incentive services offerings and driving innovation within the rebate processing and incentives industry.
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Brian Krause Vice President of Marketing and Communications Molex Incorporated |
Brian has been working in the Interconnect World for the past 31 years, with the last 29 years for Molex Incorporated in various Marketing and Sales positions. In his current position as Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Molex, Brian is responsible for Global Marketing and Communications, which includes the Molex Brand, Advertising, Public Relations, as well as the Commercialization and Promotion of Molex's products globally. In addition Brian has responsibility for Molex's Web site, Strategic Marketing, and Strategic Planning.
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Jim Lecinski Managing Director of U.S. Sales Google, Inc. |
Jim Lecinski, Managing Director of U.S. Sales for Google, Inc., leads Google's advertising business nationally focusing on major marketers and media agency partners in the Consumer Packaged Goods, Healthcare, Restaurant, B2B and Local Markets industry verticals. Based in Google's Chicago office, Jim brings his 20 years of integrated marketing and online/offline advertising experience to help clients address their challenges with branding and creative strategy; consumer insights; marketing plan development; lead generation; measurement, data analysis and optimization. He is a frequent guest speaker at industry events, conferences and universities including the ANA, AMA, BMA, Northwestern University and the University of Virginia.
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Tonise Paul CEO Energy BBDO |
Tonise Paul, CEO of Energy BBDO and a Director of BBDO Worldwide, has built Energy BBDO around the single idea that to grow brands you must energize people: employees, clients, and consumers. This focus has led to a brand-building approach that is insight driven, highly collaborative, creatively charged, and fully integrated. Tonise joined BBDO in 1983 and held every account leadership position before taking the helm in 1996.
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Chris Mead Managing Director, Marketing CME Group |
Christopher E. Mead is Managing Director of Marketing for CME Group. He is responsible for leading the creation and delivery of targeted, integrated and customer-focused marketing campaigns that differentiate CME Group products in the marketplace.
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Lisa Donohue CEO Starcom |
As CEO of Chicago-based media agency Starcom USA, Donohue's proven strategic talent empowers her company to meet and exceed challenges on behalf of some of the country's mightiest marketers - connecting them with their desired audiences through thoughtful media relationships and inspired communications models.
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Julie Dexter Berg EVP & CMO SUPERVALU |
Julie Dexter Berg, Executive Vice president and Chief Marketing Officer for SUPERVALU, leads all marketing activities including brand and customer strategy, advertising and research and analytics. She joined SUPERVALU in 2010.
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Teresa Iglesias-Solomon VP, Multicultural and Latino Initiatives Best Buy Co., Inc. |
As Vice President of multicultural and Latino initiatives for Best Buy Co., Inc., Teresa Iglesias-Solomon leads all strategies relative to serving diverse customers, with an emphasis on Hispanic communities. Her cross-functional team is responsible for gaining deep understanding of different cultures, and translating that insight into respectful and meaningful relationships - wherever and however we interact with them - in our stores, online or in their communities.
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Chris Miller EVP, Group Management Director, Interactive Draftfcb |
Chris has created, built and led businesses in the digital marketing space for close to twenty years, most recently in his role as SVP, Group Management Director, Interactive at Draftfcb. In his work he combines a relentless pursuit of perfection with a passion for experimenting, traits that have served him and his client's well across the shifting digital landscape.
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Patrick J. Moorhead Director of Mobile Platforms, Chicago Draftfcb |
As director of mobile platforms at Draftfcb Chicago, Patrick Moorhead not only leads the mobile initiatives for Draftfcb's Chicago agency but provides leadership for mobile efforts across Draftfcb's entire North American network.
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Kevin Drew Davis SVP, Group Creative Director Draftfcb |
Kevin Drew Davis, a creative pioneer in the digital space, will be leading our digital creative efforts as SVP, group creative director, digital. For the past year, Kevin has served as SVP, director of digital strategy at Publicis West in Seattle while simultaneously co-leading the agency's digital creative.
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Michael Arndt News Editor Bloomberg News |
Michael Arndt has written extensively about marketing as a senior correspondent and senior editor for Bloomberg Businessweek over the past 10 years. His work includes cover stories on McDonald's and 3M. Michael, who is based in Chicago, also led the publication's innovation and design coverage in print and online. He posts regularly on businessweek.com's Next blog, and you can follow him on Twitter at Mr_Innovation.
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Timothy W. Simonds Managing Director - Marketing and Merchandising United Airlines |
Timothy "Tim" W. Simonds is the Managing Director in the Marketing and Merchandising divisions at United Airlines. He is based at the company's worldwide headquarters in Chicago. Simonds joined United in 2004 as director of marketing for Ted and United Express, where he lead the start-up and expansion of Ted, United Airlines low-fare airline, and launched explus - a United Express® service featuring state-of-the-art regional jets, which offer United First® and Economy Plus® seating.
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Lisa Arthur CMO Aprimo Inc. |
Ms. Arthur serves as Aprimo's Chief Marketing Officer driving global market and brand strategy, demand generation and customer-centric initiatives. A 25-year marketing veteran, she has served as CMO for Internet leader Akamai Technologies and B2B2C application provider Mindjet. Ms. Arthur spent nearly 7 years at Oracle where as a Vice President of Marketing, she managed the market entry and growth for Oracle CRM as well as drove market and demand initiatives for all of Oracle's services including its E-Business Suite On-Demand. Most recently, as the founder for Cinterim, Ms. Arthur applied her market-centric processes and insight to provide strategic counsel for Silicon Valley start-ups and Fortune 50 technology companies.
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Dennis Cary SVP and CMO Bally Total Fitness |
Dennis Cary is Chief Marketing Officer for Bally Total Fitness, responsible for leading the company's marketing functions, and developing and implementing initiatives that will help Bally further strengthen relationships with its nearly 3 million members.
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Jennifer Scanlon VP & CIO USG Corporation |
Jennifer Scanlon is Vice President and CIO for USG Corporation. In addition, she oversees corporate-wide strategic planning, including executive level direction for strategy formulation, strategy process improvements and communication of strategy on a worldwide basis
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– Neil White, SVP, Group Director of Account Services, BBDO Minneapolis
– David Hillman, Director, Global Bus Marketing, Navistar
– Julia Fitzgerald, CMO, Toys and Seasonal Businesses, Sears Holding Company
– L. Martin Grabijas, VP of Marketing, HCR ManorCare
