Great Minds

As president and CEO of Index Exchange, Andrew is responsible for providing strategic direction and market vision to the company and leading the brightest minds in advertising technology across North America, Europe, and APAC. With a sharp focus on delivering benefits to the world’s leading media owners and buyers as they tackle the world of automation, he’s built Index Exchange as one of the most...

Malcolm joined Cheil Worldwide at the beginning of 2015 as the Network’s first ever Global Chief Creative Officer. Having built and led teams responsible for award-winning firsts as diverse as Foot Locker’s Sneakerpedia, Dove’s Campaign For Real Beauty and Samsung’s #BeFearless VR experience, Malcolm is a recognised industry influencer and speaker. A two time Cannes Lions Jury President, Clio Awar...

On this episode of Great Minds, we’re pleased to welcome Tom O’Keefe, Creative Chairman, and Jeff King, CEO, of the newly merged BarkleyOKRP. BarkleyOKRP is a new advertising agency formed by the merger of two prominent agencies, Barkley and OKRP. The merger creates one of the largest independent agencies in the United States, with offices in Chicago, Denver, New York, Pittsburgh, and Kansas City....

Chuck Leavell was a member of the Allman Brothers Band throughout their commercial zenith in the 1970s, he subsequently became a founding member of the band Sea Level. He has served as the principal touring keyboardist and musical director of the Rolling Stones since 1982. As a session musician, Leavell has performed on every Rolling Stones studio album released since 1983 with the exception of Br...

Jamila Wignot is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her body of work includes, the Emmy-nominated MAKERS: WOMEN IN BUSINESS; THE AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, which won a Peabody, Emmy, and NAACP awards; TOWN HALL a feature-length co-production with ITVS about the Tea Party movement; and for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE the Peabody Award-winning, “Triangle Fire”...

Alex Collmer is the founder and CEO of  VidMob , the leading creative data company. The AI-based software improves creative and media performance by helping brands and agencies derive their own custom creative best practices, and ensure that those learnings are applied across all flighted media. Vidmob counts many of the world’s leading brands and agencies as clients and helps them drive brand con...

Jason Keehn is the founder of Accompany Creative, the award-winning, impact-driven creative agency recently named Ad Age’s Purpose Agency of the Year. With their motto of “We make good, work” Accompany Creative focuses on transforming brands into change agents through inspiring, mission-led storytelling and design. The company is a collective of socially conscious branding, marketing, PR, product...

Issa Jouaneh is President, Connections, at Emerald, and is responsible for leading the strategic oversight and growth optimization of the company’s core business, comprised of 140+ leading events, trade shows, and conferences. Issa joined Emerald in March 2021 as Executive Vice President of Emerald Xcelerator, leading the company’s market diversification strategy through new shows, partnerships, a...

Heidi Dangelmaier is an inventor + designer + scientist (Quantum Physics & Artificial Intelligence). She has a track record of inventing first to market mass-appeal products, technology, entertainment & brands. Her gift at activating mass-scale growth in the female market is peerless. She’s generated billions in revenues for many global brands. She’s the most recognized leader at the front...

Robert E. (Bob) Hope is a veteran of the public relations and event marketing business. He is co-owner and president of Hope-Beckham, an independent agency based in Atlanta. Hope and longtime friend Paul Beckham started Hope-Beckham 25 years ago. Clients have included Chick-fil-A Foundation, Turner Broadcasting, Belk, The Coca-Cola Company, Southern Company, Home Depot, Comcast and a variety of sp...

With 20 years of tech experience, and after witnessing the explosion of marketing data and its potential to inform business decisions, Alexander saw a clear gap in the market that he was determined to fill. This led to the founding of Adverity, an intelligent marketing analytics platform, which he co-founded with colleagues Martin Brunthaler and Andreas Glänzer in 2015.

Rob Prazmark, Founder and CEO of 21 Marketing, returns to Great Minds to discuss his book The Olympics Don’t Take American Express and more!

On today’s episode of Great Minds we’re pleased to welcome Andrew Essex, Senior Managing Partner of TCS Interactive, working with companies all over the world. Andrew discusses his career path from Droga5 to Tribeca to present.

Scott Donaton, CMO of Versus and longtime friend of Advertising Week joins us for this special episode of Great Minds. Scott discusses his roles at IPG, Digitas, Hulu and more, leading up to his current role at Versus.

On today’s episode of Great Minds, we’re pleased to welcome Chris Slade, drummer for several of rock’s greatest bands, including Manfred Mann’s Earth Band from its inception in 1971 to 1978 on eight albums, The Firm, and AC/DC,  for which he drummed from 1989 to 1994 and performed on the 1990 album The Razors Edge.

On this episode of Great Minds, we’re pleased to welcome Yaniv Makover, CEO & Co-Founder of Anyword. Yaniv is an entrepreneur, with vast experience in numerous fields, dating back to his beginnings at Nokia, to his time at his company Keewee, to the present at Anyword.

iHeart Media’s CMO Gayle Troberman joins Great Minds to discuss her career – from her days at Microsoft to present.

On today’s episode of Great Minds, we’re pleased to welcome Josh Gross, Chief Creative Officer at Energy BBDO. Josh walks us through his incredible and unique career, from his days at powerhouse agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky to his present role at Energy BBDO.

Chris Moscardi is a marketing strategist, creative director, and MBA with a passion for bringing scalable, sustainable growth to B2B companies particularly in tech, infrastructure, and engineering. Chris’s goal is to bring sustainable development to the forefront of public consciousness using creative storytelling, the influence of marketing, and the levers of business.

Dr. Aaron Mair is an Environmental Justice pioneer intersectionally working in the spaces of, Health, Environment, Voting Rights and Disparities over the last 40 Years; a 35 year veteran urban environmental activist; regional and national Environmental Justice organizer and strategist from the State of New York.

A wise rabbi once said: “Judaism is a great product, but the marketing sucks.” As a Jew and a branding professional, Archie was in full agreement. She’s on a mission to re-brand Judaism so that it’s easy to get right to the good parts, no Hebrew required. JewBelong.com is the heart of the rebrand. It’s filled with meaningful, fun, free, easy-to-use Jewish rituals and information that will never le...

As a member of the senior leadership team, Fabio plays a pivotal role in shaping the newly formed EFG (ESL FACEIT Group). Together with his team, they drive brand partnerships, ticket sales, fan engagement, merchandising, advertising, and marketing.

Jessica Donohue is an executive dedicated to working with institutional investors and allocators as their partner, enabling their mission/vision and creating better outcomes for them and the people they serve. Jessica has a proven track record leading client management/ solutioning, organizational transformation, product innovation, and client service/operations. Jessica is a corporate spokesperso...

On the eve of ClimaTech 2024 we speak with Yvonne Hao, Secretary of Economic Development for Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Yvonne was a longtime senior executive who co-founded Boston investment firm Cove Hill Partners, and was tapped by the Healey-Driscoll administration to helm the state’s chief economic development agency.

Mr. Walker is a Nuclear Physicist and was the project lead and manager for constructing the new Rolls-Royce Nuclear Chemical Plant; he was the UK Subject Matter Expert for the UK Nuclear Material Recovery Capabilities and was the technical project manager for constructing the UK reactor core manufacturing facilities. Mr. Walker was also seconded to Rolls Royce where he modeled configurations of RR...