Leading Experts in TV Advertising Purchasers

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...

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...

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,...

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....

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;...

Sushil Haksar is currently the Director General of the Association of Distillers, Brewers & Vintners of India (ADBVI), the primary trade association of the alcohol beverage industry in India. At ADBVI, Mr. Haksar is responsible for representing all important issues concerning the industry to the states...

Jason Kanefsky is the Senior Vice President of National Broadcast at the New York office of Media Planning Group, a media specialist agency. He is responsible for the purchase of annual national cable and broadcast television advertising. He directly oversees $600 million worth of advertising and works...

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...

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...

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...

Maribeth Papuga is a Director of Local Broadcast at Mediavest in New York. She spends approximately $600 million on local cable, TV, and Radio on an annualized basis throughout the entire US market. She has been in both planning and buying for 25 years, sixteen of which have been at Mediavest.

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...

Alan Schanzer is the Founder and a Managing Partner of Mediaedge:cia LLC, an online advertising agency. He is responsible for managing activities of MEC Interaction and associated companies, and delivers strategic leadership, vision and insight to MEC Interaction staff and clients. Mr. Schanzer has...