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Betty Noonan
Vice President, Business-to-Consumer Marketing
Eastman Kodak Company
Betty Noonan is currently, Vice President, Business-to-Consumer Marketing.
In this role, Betty is leading the corporate marketing strategy; directing marketing investments and overseeing the execution for core Consumer businesses. She manages and integrates the marketing function from business to go-to-market, and manages key marketing functions, i.e., Consumer Experience, Future & Current Marketing, Product Design & Development, Brand Strategy, Licensing and Business Research.
Betty joined Kodak in 1986 as a Marketing Communications specialist for Consumer Products. She has held key positions in Product Management, Strategic Planning, Marketing Management, and General Management throughout her 23-year career with the company.
In 2004, Betty was asked to lead a cross-company strategic task force to evaluate the Kodak brand and determine what needed to change as the company transformed into a digital imaging company.
In January, 2007, she was named Director and Vice President, Brand Management & Marketing Services. In December, 2007, she was named Vice President, Corporate Marketing & Business Development. The Brand Management & Business Development organizations provided critical oversight and direction for the global management of Kodak’s greatest asset, while driving growth across the company.
Betty has an undergraduate degree in Marketing and an MBA in Marketing from the Rochester Institute of Technology. |
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Cindy Gordon
Vice President
360 Public Relations
Cindy Gordon leads social media campaigns that build online communities. She joined 360 from NBC Universal. As VP of PR/New Media for Universal Studios, Cindy turned pop culture into coverage for theme park attractions, including The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. She was a social media pioneer in developing an influencer outreach program, a "Universal Mom Squad," and co-producing iVillage Live, a daytime TV and online show for women. Cindy is immersed in social media, networking with mom, tech influencers and other bloggers on Twitter and Facebook daily. She has two great kids, a cool husband and one gigantic dog. |
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Ian Wolfman
Partner, CMO
imc2
Ian Wolfman has an accomplished history in business development, management and marketing strategy. His first entrepreneurial venture dealing with online relationship marketing initiatives began in 1996, followed by over a decade of interactive marketing and entrepreneurial leadership with some of the world's most admired companies and brands.
During his entrepreneurial days, one of Ian’s early companies partnered with the independent artists channel of Kazaa. In so doing, Ian and his partners developed a pioneering ecommerce business model. Ian's partnership with Kazaa was instrumental in defining the shape of the P2P file sharing economic models that are still evolving today. Ian moved on from these projects, dedicating his focus to the growth of imc², one of the world's premiere digital and next generation marketing agencies.
Leading imc²'s new business growth from the company's inception, Ian has seen it jump to one of the nation's largest privately held and independent agencies. With more than 300 employees and offices in Dallas, Manhattan, and Philadelphia, imc² holds the claim to being the largest organically grown digital agency in the history of the digital marketing industry. During his tenure, Ian has also directed strategy and delivery for client accounts including Johnson & Johnson, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Sunbeam and Pfizer. Ian now focuses on leading imc²'s business development team, which seeks to advance relationships with prospective clients - predominantly as imc²'s first point-of-contact in market.
New accounts that Ian and his team have engaged include Pizza Hut, Procter & Gamble, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, 7-Eleven, Omni Hotels, Coca-Cola, Barilla, Blockbuster, Eli Lilly and Company, EMD Serono, Lowes, Norwegian Cruise Line, Sharp Electronics and GE.
Ian is an active thought leader in the field of digital and next generation marketing. His extensive experience delivering training and corporate evangelism for imc²'s clientele is evident in his development and execution of corporate e-marketing training for hundreds of brand managers with companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Genentech and Pfizer. Additionally, Ian has contributed his time speaking at conference engagements and sitting on boards and board committees both nationally and locally for organizations such as the American Diabetes Association and the Dallas Arboretum.
Ian received his B.S. in Corporate Communications from The University of Texas at Austin and his M.B.A. from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. He is a proud husband and father of two. |
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Stacy DeBroff
Founder & CEO
Mom Central Consulting
Stacy DeBroff is founder and CEO of Mom Central Consulting, the leading marketing to Moms agency, founded in 2006, which specializes in viral marketing and social media campaigns to activate the Mom consumer. In the last year, Mom Central Consulting has partnered with over 200 national brands, Fortune 500 companies, PR firms, and venture-backed start-ups to build brand awareness and activate Moms to significant retail purchases and online participation. Stacy’s expert marketing advice and insights have been featured in such publications as USA Today, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, as well as TV shows from CNN’s American Morning and Headline News to Fox News and Bloomberg News.
Prior to this, Stacy, heralded as a “parenting guru” by the Wall Street Journal, authored four best-selling parenting books (Simon & Schuster) and launched Mom Central, Inc. (www.MomCentral.com), a company devoted to providing savvy advice to simplify and enrich the lives of busy Moms and their families. Stacy appears as a regular parenting expert on national TV shows, including NBC’s Today Show, CNN, The View, The Tyra Banks Show, the CBS Early Show, The Daily Buzz, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, and the Rachael Ray Show. Stacy also serves as a corporate spokesperson, trendspotting for the media on behalf of over 50 national brands.
In the 1990’s, Stacy founded and ran, as an attorney, the Public Interest Office at Harvard Law School. Stacy lives with her husband, Ron, and happily engages in imperfect parenting of their two teens, Kyle and Brooks, in Boston, Massachusetts. |
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Heidi Murkoff
Author, What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Founder of the What To Expect franchise
Heidi Murkoff, author of What to Expect When You're Expecting and the creator of the world's most popular and trusted pregnancy and parenting brand. WTE delivers empowering information — along with support and reassurance — to millions of expectant and new parents. Its mission: to help every parent know what to expect, every step of the way. The brand includes the What to Expect series of books which have sold over 40 million copies worldwide and is published in more than 30 languages; their online companion, WhatToExpect.com; and the WTE Pregnancy Tracker iPhone app -- now ranked #1 by Apple in the health category. She's also the co-founder of the What to Expect Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps low-income families have healthy pregnancies, deliveries, and babies. She lives with her husband, Erik, and their two children, Emma and Wyatt, in Southern California. |
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Jim Curtis
Vice President
WhatToExpect.com
Jim Curtis is the Vice President at WhatToExpect.com and Everyday Health Inc. He joined the team in 2006 as Publisher of WhatToExpect.com and Director of Strategic Partnerships for Everyday Health.com, and was successful in building a strong solutions-oriented team that transformed the product and dramatically increased sales.
Jim began his career trading health technology options on the American Stock Exchange in New York and eventually went to work for a company he traded, OnHealth.com. At OnHealth.com, he assisted in the advertising sales and business development activities leading to an acquisition by WebMD Health.
Over his seven year tenure at WebMD, Jim was responsible for 100 strategic partnerships with Companies, including Church and Dwight, Beech Nut, P&G, Gerber, Mead Johnson, Schering Plough and Bayer Pharmaceuticals. |
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Sarah Hutter
Vice President of Editoral
WhatToExpect.com
Sarah Hutter is Vice President of Editorial at WhatToExpect.com and Everyday Health Inc. Sarah started as executive editor of the site in 2004 shortly after it launched and has helped it become one of the fastest growing parenting and pregnancy websites with over 2 million unique users per month. Prior to joining the WTE team, Sarah was a writer and editor for a variety of women’s magazines, including Working Mother and Parents. In 2001 she transitioned to online media, becoming producer of the parenting channel at iVillage. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children, Henry, age 6, and Claire, age 4. |
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Carley Roney
Editor in Chief
TheBump.com
Carley Roney is editor in chief and cofounder of The Knot Inc., a lifestage media company focused on the five-year period from proposal to pregnancy. Part of The Knot Inc., TheBump.com is a website for expectant and first-time parents that offers comprehensive stage-by-stage advice, a thriving online community, checklists, local reviews, and an online shop. The Bump brand serves moms in 17 U.S. cities with a purse-size pregnancy guide and connects moms everywhere with Facebook app, Mommyhood, and iPhone apps, Pregnancy 411 and Baby 411.
As “top mom,” Carley oversees content development and overall site direction on TheBump.com. Carley has personally endured three pregnancies, toddler milestones, and temper tantrums all while building her career as a successful new media entrepreneur. She has poured both media savvy and hard-won mommy wisdom into TheBump.com and is excited to create the first brand exclusively devoted to first time parents and the marketers who want to reach them.
The nation’s hippest lifestage expert, Carley makes regular appearances on national television, including CNN, Live! With Regis & Kelly, Today, and CBS The Early Show, as well as interviews with top publications like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, US News & World Report, and the Associated Press, where she shares trends, tips, and tricks for planning life with a new baby. With over a dozen books in print, her latest book, The Baby Bump, is a modern guide to pregnancy set to hit bookstores in Fall 2010. Carley lives with her husband and three children in Brooklyn. |
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Jim Kozlowski
Manager, Corporate Marketing
Eastman Kodak Company
Jim Kozlowski has been a manager in Kodak’s Corporate Marketing group since mid-2008. He manages activity for future product marketing, specializing in the development of consumer imaging value propositions and their related experience roadmaps.
Jim has done extensive global research for Kodak uncovering unmet consumer needs to drive product innovation in the consumer imaging space. He recently led the development and implementation of research that identified key photo segments and their needs around the world. Jim is the resident expert for Kodak’s core target of Chief Memory Officers in the household (Moms).
Jim has been with Kodak for over 30 years in many different capacities primarily involving consumer research. He is a graduate of Penn State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and has an MBA in Marketing from the University of Rochester’s Simon School. |
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Tim Sullivan
President
School Family Media, Inc.
A recognized leader in all aspects of parent involvement in education, Tim Sullivan’s unique perspective on school-business partnerships comes from a variety of angles – first as a teacher and administrator at a NYC high school, then as a senior manager for a school fundraising company. In 1999, Tim founded PTO Today, the company that has evolved into School Family Media, Inc. – which today delivers parent-focused publishing and brand-sponsored school-family involvement programs to millions of parents with school-age kids every year.
Tim has helped concept and launch (often while also playing a public/spokesperson role) impactful, school-connected programs for dozens of Mom brands, including Kellogg’s, Nestlé, Target and Procter & Gamble. His expertise on parent involvement in schools, PTOs, PTAs and connecting with moms through schools has made him a frequent guest/expert in national print, broadcast and web discussions of these key issues. Tim is also a father of 4 and – yes – the PTO president at his children’s grade school.
Most recently, Tim founded (launched in 2010) a new national non-profit: Schools Serve – the National School Food Drive, which will soon be the largest coordinated food drive in the United States. |
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Mike Swenson
President
Barkley Public Relations
Mike Swenson is a nationally recognized expert within the growing field of cause branding. His Citizen Brand blog champions companies, nonprofits and individuals that are leading as Citizen Brands within their communities. He has been a featured speaker at events for the Cause Marketing Forum, Public Relations Society of America, International Association of Business Communicators, and the International Public Relations Exchange, among others.
Mike founded Barkley Public Relations in 1988 and has led the strategic development of cause programs for multiple clients. Since 1995, the firm’s flagship cause program for Lee Jeans, Lee National Denim Day, has raised more than $70 million to benefit breast cancer research. The agency continues to work with cause clients that include Sonic Drive-In, H&R Block, the March of Dimes and Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure. Cause marketing programs under Mike’s guidance have won awards from the Public Relations Society of America, PR Week, the Cause Marketing Forum and the PRISM Awards.
Mike serves on the Board of the Kansas City Zoo, the Kansas City Free Health Clinic, and the Capital Campaign Steering Committee for Harvester’s Community Food Bank, and is a community advisor to the Junior League of Greater Kansas City. He is past president of IPREX, a global corporation of 60 independent public relations firms. Mike is a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Kansas, his alma mater, and Central Missouri State University. He is also a member of the William Allen White Foundation Board of Trustees affiliated with the School of Journalism at the University of Kansas.
Prior to founding Barkley Public Relations, Mike served as the Press Secretary to Kansas Governor John Carlin and worked as a broadcast journalist. |
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Nadine O. Vogel
President
Springboard Consulting
Nadine O. Vogel is Founder and President of Springboard Consulting LLC. Springboard works with national and global firms on how to appropriately support employees who either have a disability or who have a child or other dependent with special needs through diversity, work life and human resource initiatives. Springboard also enables these firms to successfully market their products and services to this community, now the largest minority market in the world! Springboard also produces the Disability Matters Awards Banquet and Conference which honors those firms that are making great strides in the areas of marketing, work-life and diversity as it pertains to the special needs population.
Prior to founding Springboard, Nadine held a variety of senior level positions in both Corporate America and the non-profit sectors.
Nadine is the author of DIVE IN, Springboard into the Profitability, Productivity and Potential of the Special Needs Workforce, a must-read business book. She has also authored numerous articles and is recognized as a powerful motivational, inspirational speaker. Recognized for her civic and professional activities, Nadine has received many awards and accolades including:
NJ BIZ Magazine’s 2008 Best 50 Women in Business Award, The Count Me In, 2008 Make Mine a Million $ Business Program Award, The 2007 Howard L. Green Humanitarian Award from the NJ Broadcasters Association, The College of Charleston's 2003 Distinguished Alumni Award, The Voices Award 2003 -individuals who have made a difference in the community, The Golden Gate University's 2002 Alumni Community Service Award, The Fast Company Magazine's 2002 debut list of "Fast 50" innovators -- individuals whose achievements helped change their companies or society, The Working Mother Magazine's Mothers We Love Top 25 List in 2000 and the magazine's 2000 Mothering That Works Award and numerous elections to a variety of editions to Who’s Who.
Nadine has been featured on NBC News, CNNfn, Lifetime Live on the Lifetime Channel, Good Day NY and Oxygen Television's Pure Oxygen program. She is the founder and past president of the board of SNAP, Special Needs Advocate for Parents, a member of the NJN TV Corporate Advisory Committee, a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of United Cerebral Palsy and on the editorial advisory board for WorkLife Matters Magazine. She is a member of the College of Charleston Foundation Board and a member of the College of Charleston Department of Communications Professional Advisory Council.
Nadine received an MBA from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, CA and a BS in Industrial Psychology from the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC. She resides in New Jersey with her husband and two daughters, both of whom have special needs. |
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Amanda Stevens
Managing Director
Splash Consulting Group
Amanda Stevens is the Managing Director of Splash Consulting Group, a specialist communications consultancy she established thirteen years ago. Splash now has offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland and an impressive client list of some of Australia’s leading brands such as Lend Lease, Priceline, Best and Less, Celebrity Slim, Allergan, and Proctor and Gamble.
Amanda is the author of two books, SheMarketing and SheSelling, and is widely recognized as Australia’s leading authority on marketing to women. Amanda has spoken at over 200 conferences internationally and is voted the best speaker of the conference over 80% of the time.
In 2000, Amanda was named Young Business Woman of the Year by Sydney Business Review and in December 2002 won the Young Australian of the Year Award for Career Achievement in New South Wales. In 2003, she was awarded the prestigious centenary medal by the Governor General for business innovation, and in 2008 was selected as part of the exclusive Australian speaker lineup for Donald Trump’s tour of Australia. |
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Bonnie Ulman
Co-Author,
“Trillion-Dollar Moms: Marketing to a New Generation of Mothers”
President of
The Haystack Group
Fueled by a healthy respect for the purchasing power of moms and a long history of marketing to them, Bonnie Ulman put her insights to the test when she co-authored the category-leading book, “Trillion-Dollar Moms: Marketing to a New Generation of Mothers.” She has since expanded her focus to include the family unit, exploring how each family member impacts brand preference, product choice and purchase behavior. At the helm of The Haystack Group, the firm she co-founded 10 years ago, she has the opportunity to apply this discreet understanding of consumers to clients’ unique public relations opportunities.
She has been involved with numerous landmark studies, including the 2008 expose “Scattered, Smothered & Covered,” that found an OCD-type behavior among mothers. She spent six months studying stay-at-home dad playgroups to understand his approach to parenting and play, emerging with the aha! that no matter her age, Daddy’s Little Girl always is Daddy’s Little Girl.
Bonnie was privileged to serve as a spokesperson for Kellogg’s Rice Krispies “Childhood is Calling” program in 2007 and 2008 and believes savoring a little snap, crackle and pop a great start to any day.
She lives on a hobby farm in Atlanta with her family and spends her spare time as a competitive equestrian chasing the ever-elusive blue ribbon. |
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Jon Albert
Founder & President
Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation
Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation was inspired by Jill and Jon Albert's real life story. With an MBA and years of executive experience in the corporate world, Jon found himself, his wife, Jill, and their two young children Jake and Jamie facing Jill’s Stage IV metastatic breast cancer. Jill and Jon realized early on in Jill’s fight the disease was not just attacking her body, but it was affecting their entire family. Jill and Jon decided they needed to treat their family along with the cancer. Jon took his marketing and operations background and combined it with their drive to formulate something positive and tangible out of the unfair and cruel. The Alberts knew that for their kids, Jamie and Jake, strong memories of special times together would be their greatest inheritance. From this notion, the Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation was born.
A graduate of Vanderbilt University and the University of Florida where he achieved his masters in business, Jon spent a number of years with Frito-Lay. Jon moved to Atlanta in 1989 to establish and launch the GA operations for PageNet which grew into a wonderful success story. He then had the unique opportunity to serve as a Director for The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG----a $1.8 billion start-up). In 1996 after The Olympics, Jon joined Clyde Rodbell’s company as the President of the Builder Division of Apex Supply. Jon was actively involved in the sale of Apex Supply to The Home Depot years later.
When not dedicated to this labor-of-love Foundation, which Jon says is exceptionally rewarding professionally and personally, Jon’s primary extracurricular is coaching youth sports—another passion he has done for over 20 years. |
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Nicole Green
SVP, Brand Evangelist
Frank About Women
Nicole Green has been with Mullen for the last 9 years and is one of the founding members of Frank About Women. She has made a career out of immersing herself into the emotions and actions of thousands of women, learning about their most sacred values and greatest hopes to how they go about their beauty regimens. She’s helped lead Frank efforts across brands including Walgreens, Nestlé, Endust T.J.Maxx, and Kumon Learning Centers. She also served as the director of millennials insights and strategy working for Iconoculture, where she translated trends into culturally savvy ideas for Gillette, Victoria’s Secret, Goody and Coca-Cola. Nicole currently lives in High Point, NC with her husband and daughter. |
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Stephen Larkin
SVP, Brand Evangelist
Mullen
Stephen Larkin has been with Mullen for the last five years leading their new business efforts for the Boston based agency. He re-joined Mullen from Hill/Holliday where he worked there for more than ten years in account management. With more than twenty years of experience, Stephen saw an opportunity to immerse himself with the mobile platform after an inspiring conversation with his son who was 9-years old at the time. This inspired him to help jump-start Mullen’s mobile app development practice. At Mullen, Stephen has helped create some of the most successful branded apps in the space for such brands as Stanley, Foxwoods Resort & Casino, Bass Pro Shops, Century 21 and Lumber Liquidators to name just a few. He currently lives in Marblehead, MA with his wife and children. |
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Eileen Gaffen
Public Relations Director
Hallmark Cards
Eileen Gaffen leads the marketing public relations group at Hallmark Cards. She is responsible for developing and implementing strategic public relations to support and promote Hallmark’s brands and the company’s retail, digital and mobile objectives. Eileen, the proud mother of two children, markets to moms – Hallmark’s most loyal consumers.
With more than 20 years of media and public relations experience, Eileen began her career as a television news producer for CBS in San Diego earning an Emmy and a Southern California Golden Mike award. She ran a successful public relations consulting business and founded a non-profit business organization bringing technology and industry thought leaders to the San Diego business community.
Relocating to Kansas City in 1995, Eileen held communications management positions at Sprint before joining Hallmark in 2000. She is a graduate of San Diego State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. |
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Liz Hawks
SVP and Founding Co-Chair of FH Moms
Fleishman-Hillard
A mother of two boys, Liz Hawks is a Senior Vice President and the Founding Co-Chair of FH Moms, Fleishman-Hillard’s global practice group specializing in marketing to moms. In this role, she counsels clients to strategically dialogue with moms in ways that translate to better acquisition and retention of the lucrative “mom market.” Her FH Moms practice group was awarded “Practice of the Year” for 2009 by the firm’s executives and chairs of its 29 other practices.
Currently, Liz partners with leading consumer brands to design national product launches, awareness and education programs, cause marketing initiatives, contests and promotions, word of mouth programs, celebrity seeding, consumer advocacy and ambassadorship, digital assets and media coverage – both traditional and social. She was part of the PR team that launched Hallmark’s “Cards with Sound,” a program awarded the prestigious Silver Anvil in 2007. In addition, she managed the launch of Hallmark’s “Journeys” card line, including a digital media component that was awarded a Gold Quill from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) in 2008. Spanning industries, Liz has worked with various national clients while at Fleishman-Hillard, including Hallmark Cards, Midwest Dairy Council, Helzberg Diamonds, Silpada Designs, Bayer Animal Health, Quintiles, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Teva Neuroscience and H&R Block. Before joining Fleishman-Hillard, she held positions with Habitat ReStore, an arm of Habitat for Humanity, AmeriCorps VISTA, the U.S. government’s domestic service organization, KDFW-TV (FOX) and the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE).
Liz holds a master’s degree in integrated marketing communications from the University of Kansas. She received a bachelor’s degree with departmental distinction in the communication arts from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex., with an emphasis in broadcast media, and minors in psychology and Spanish. |
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Kelley Skoloda
Partner/Director, Global Brand Marketing Practice
Ketchum
Kelley Skoloda, Partner/Director of Ketchum’s Global Brand Marketing Practice, is a recognized authority on marketing to women. She is responsible for thought-leadership, major client stewardship and Practice growth in the consumer arena. Kelley is the architect of the widely publicized Women 25to54, a communications offering that provides a better way to reach “multi-mindingSM” female consumers.
In Kelley’s distinguished career with the global, top-ten public relations firm, Ketchum, she has counseled dozens of companies and blue-chip brands including the American Iron and Steel Institute’s Canned Food Alliance, Aetna, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, Daimler Chrysler, Kellogg’s® Special K® along with other Kellogg’s brands, Kimberly-Clark, Libby’s and Rite Aid Corporation.
Kelley is a sought-after speaker and commentator on the subject of marketing to
women and has been featured in BusinessWeek Online, BRANDWEEK magazine, CNNMoney.com, Today’s Chicago Woman, The Washington Post, PRWeek magazine
and others.
Kelley’s recently launched blog, www.toobusytoshop.blogspot.com, is helping to collect input from women across the country for her upcoming business book, Too Busy to Shop: Marketing to Multi-Minding Women. Be sure to visit the blog and add your opinions. The book is slated for release in the spring of 2009 by Praeger Publishers.
Kelley earned her M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and her undergraduate degree from Seton Hill University, where she now sits on the Board of Trustees.
She and her husband, David, reside in Pittsburgh with their two children,
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Symon Whitehorn
Director, Industrial Design and User Interface
Eastman Kodak Company
Symon Whitehorn joined Eastman Kodak in 2007 as Director of Industrial Design and User Interface, and has led multidisciplinary design and engineering teams to develop advanced personal imaging concepts.
From 2000 to 2006, Symon was an Associate Partner in the San Francisco office of Pentagram Design, one of the world’s most prestigious design consultancies. Symon moved to San Francisco from London in 1996 after accepting a position as a Lead Industrial Designer at IDEO in Palo Alto, CA, where his work focused primarily on emergent technologies; designing their physical manifestation as products, and their subsequent interaction and relationships with users and brands. Symon has also directed the design development on Industrial Design Language programs for a number of prestigious Fortune 100 global technology companies.
Prior to moving to the United States, Symon worked with several renowned UK design studios, including Studio Brown, Product First and Fitch. While in the UK, he developed a diverse portfolio, working throughout Europe on products ranging from luggage and furniture to consumer electronics and mobile communications products. His work has been published in various design publications, such as Axis, Design Week, Design and ID, and Symon has received industry awards and recognition both in the US and Europe. |
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Josh Perlstein
President
Response Media
As a recognized thought leader and innovator in the Internet marketing space since 1996, Josh Perlstein, President, Response Media, has helped the world’s most trusted brands from companies such as P&G, Disney, IBM, Pfizer and ConAgra Foods build long-term, valuable, profitable relationships with consumers through innovative digital channels.
Josh’s role within Response Media is to help the agency guide marketers to their “nirvana” optimal marketing mix within digital channels, combining relationship marketing that has true meaning, trust and mutual value with direct marketing science, accountability and conversion.
Josh is a regular contributor to industry publications including Ad Age, Chief Marketer, iMedia Connection, WSJ and Multichannel Merchant and major conferences such as ad:tech, National Center for Database Marketing, OMMA, Email Evolution Conference, IAB Leadership Summits, LeadsCon, Shop.org, e-tail, travel and CPG industry events. He’s an avid fan of spicy food and sports, but ashamed to be a Pittsburgh Pirates fan.
Josh holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas. |
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