Leading Experts in Media Buyers

Phil Akin is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hellman, where he has worked since 2005. Hellman is a full service marketing and advertising agency with a client base covering 127 of the current Fortune 500 companies, including Best Buy, Advance Auto Parts, 3M, LS Power, GE, Ecolab, John Deere,...

Gary Allen is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Allen and Associates, a retail strategy, marketing, and operations consulting firm. Allen and Associates has completed contracts with banks, LBO groups, wholesalers and retailers in the drug store industry as well as the food industry. Mr. Allen...

Dirk Aschmoneit is currently a Director of Marketing, Food & Retail at Jenny Craig - a division of Nestle Nutrition, where he has worked since 2004. He manages a $500 million group of food and non-food products. His duties include product development, assortment, merchandising for 500+ stores in the...

Lee Baler is an associate media director at Digitas Inc, a leading digital and direct marketing agency. Lee works within an inter-agency team that is responsible for multimedia events and campaigns for American Express. Lee's group specifically defines the digital identity through online video, display...

Louis Bilka is the President of Communications Two Group, a direct response consulting company. He is responsible for recommending and implementing mailing list, credit card inserts, newspaper inserts, space advertising, radio and television spot buying and informercials. Communications Two Group also...

Michael Bonfils is the President of International Media Management, Corporation known for its online advertising consulting division, Hyper Interactive, and its SEM International/WebCertain (SEMI-WC) global search engine marketing management services of which provides programs for International advertising...

Alan Burgis is the Chief Executive Officer of EURO RSCG's operation in San Francisco. They were named the Global Agency of 2006 by The Delaney Report, Campaign Magazine and Advertising Age....

Nigel Carr has been a senior partner at Ogilvy, New York, a full service ad agency, since 2005. He's an experienced brand planning & strategy advocate with extremely diverse experience working for new & established clients across a myriad of product categories. He's worked on national & global brands...

Robert Cherins is the President at Cherins & Co LLC, a full service marketing consultancy and advertising and branding agency. He also teaches a masters course in direct, digital, and database marketing. He is experienced in digital, channel marketing in online & offline media, pharmaceutical, automotive,...

Dawn Ciers was the President at Wahlstrom Group, a directional media advertising agency. She has over 20 years of experienced in the yellow pages industry. She has served on the ADM Board and was the Chairman of the Directory Advertising Committee at AAAA. She is experienced in managing strategic advertiser/publisher/agency...

Tracey Clanton is the Group Account Director at The TRUE Agency. TRUE is the Agency of Record for Nissan/Infiniti, and Countrywide Insurance. In her position as Group Account Director, Tracey directs all of the Marketing & Advertising activities for Nissan North America and the Countrywide accounts....

George Cornell is currently the Chief Operating Officer at Super Bell Jewelry, a supplier of fine jewelry, accessories, and watches to jewelry retailers world-wide. Super Bell Jewelry is a manufacturer and wholesaler representing over 15 global companies. Mr. Cornell also acts as an Advisor for a major...

William Day is the Chief Media Officer at Marchex, a local online advertising company and publisher of online content. He is responsible for media strategies, including online content, consumer initiatives and advertising opportunities. Previously, he was the Chief Executive Officer of WhenU.com. WhenU.com...

Thomas DePaoli is Director of Online Marketing at The Guild, Inc., a Top 500 Internet Retailer and pioneer art and home furnishings business, and President of Mercury Solutions LLC, a marketing consulting firm specializing in online marketing in North America and South America. Mr. DePaoli has over...

David Diamond is the President of David Diamond Associates in New York, NY since 2002. David Diamond Associates is a strategic marketing consulting firm with clients in the packaged goods, retail and marketing services industries. Mr. Diamond previously worked in emerging media and promotion as President...

Andrew Donchin is the Director - National Broadcast at Carat North America, a media specialist agency. He is responsible for managing operations for New York and Los Angeles. Previously, Mr. Donchin was a buyer at Wells, Rich and Greene, and was responsible for managing the account for Procter & Gamble;...

John Duffy is currently the President of MarketOps, a food and beverage consultancy firm, where he has worked since 2001. Mr. Duffy has more than 15 years of experience in the food and beverage industry and has expertise in wholesale, retail, marketing, sales, product development and business development....

Ken Eisner runs a stealth Web 2.0+ e-commerce firm targeting women and a digital consulting firm on e-commerce, mobile, mobile commerce, and new media. Among his clients, he designs mobile commerce strategy for large SaaS e-commerce platform provider Demandware (provider for Timberland, House of Frasier,...

Robert Figa is the President of ADGEN CORP., an independent outdoor advertising consulting company. He consults with media vendors, advertising agencies, advertisers and investors in the area of outdoor advertising. Prior to opening is own firm, Mr. Figa was an Executive VP-Managing Director and member...

Barbara Fraser was Senior Vice President, Global Brand Strategy for American Express; she was one of the company's top 50 executives until her retirement in August 2006. During her five years at American Express, Ms. Fraser also served as Executive Vice President, Products and Chief Marketing Officer...