Leading Experts in Print Advertising Purchasers (North America)

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...

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...

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...

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 President of Cornell and Associates, a consulting firm serving the jewelry and cosmetic industries, specializing both in the retail and manufacturing aspects, where he has worked since August 2008. He has served as COO of Super Bell Jewelry, a supplier of fine jewelry, accessories,...

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....

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...

Robert Kaufmann is an independent consultant to the consumer packaged goods industry. His focus is in business development, new product development, sales and marketing. He is knowledgeable in dairy, specialty, diet and kosher food categories. He also has knowledge on contract manufacturing and private...

John Kernan is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Bartons Confections, a consumer packaged goods manufacturer where he has worked since July 2005. Bartons Confections is a confectionery and nutrition bar manufacturer working with many major companies through contract manufacturing, a private...

Imran Khan is the Chief Marketing Officer at E-LOAN, a company providing mortgage loans, home equity, auto, commercial, debt consolidation, student, and unsecured personal loans. He specializes in data driven marketing. He was responsible for integration of the multi-channel marketing efforts using...

Deborah King is a Sr. Media Specialist at Mervyns, LLC, a department store. She oversees approximately $85 million in advertising buying and/or planning on an annualized basis. She began her career in advertising in 1994 at Saatchi and Saatchi in the media department. Since then, Deborah has developed...

Andreas Kurz was Chief Executive Officer of 7 For All Mankind, the US leader in premium denim, until December 2005. Mr. Kurz is currently the Owner of Akari Enterprises, a retail consultancy, where he has worked since April 2006. At Akari Enterprises, Mr. Kurz specializes in international distribution,...

Allen Levenson is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Asbury Automotive Group. In this role, he leads sales, marketing, Internet, CRM, and public relations initiatives for the nation's 5th largest automotive retailer, a $5.7B company with over 120 franchises coast-to-coast. He was recruited...

Robert Metz is the President of Robert Metz and Associates, a consulting company dedicated to the fine jewelry and luxury goods industry where he has worked since March 2005. Mr. Metz has over 30 years of experience in the fine jewelry industry including marketing and merchandising for major retailers,...

James Meyers is the Chief Executive Officer at Alpha Media, an entertainment media company with international sales and distribution operations, US sales and distribution operations, cable television assets, plus international production operations. He is responsible for managing corporate strategy...

Jerry Monk was most recently a Director of Retail at Kraft Foods where he worked from 1970 until 2007. Mr. Monk directed and led the retail sales organization for Kraft’s West Area, which involved 6 Regions and approximately 225 Retail Sales Representatives. He managed routing and deployment of resources,...

Paula Peterson is the President of Crown Luxury Consulting, an independent consultancy firm that advises global companies on new ventures, brand strategy, product development, distribution, marketing, and media planning. Ms. Peterson is a noted industry speaker on leading trends and changing attitudes...

Joshua Pollack is the Chief Executive Officer at NXT, an investment management company focused in the media, sports, entertainment, publishing, video game internet and digital distribution industries. Mr. Pollack recently lead a feature film slate financing with Universal Studios and GE. He also manages...