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New York, Ny, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

This role focuses on driving our agency growth overall and finessing how we win – across the overall agency offering and through the lens of the practice brands.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Jack Health is a specialty healthcare agency, delivering extraordinary brand experiences for clients in the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, health / wellness and healthcare service categories. We build on the great work Jack Morton has long delivered to these clients, grouping them now under Jack Health to get both the benefit of the Jack Morton network, and the additional focus of healthcare specialists. I am the Head of Jack Health in the US, managing the brand, the offering, business planning, reporting, financials, stable of talent and client growth. This role also drives how we collaborate with existing Jack Morton markets, DxTRA sister agencies, IPG teams and external partners to deliver excellence for today's increasingly complex healthcare assignments. Visit us at Jack-Health.com

Dallas, Texas, Us

Head of (National) Corporate Account Sales team for Freeman and leader of the New York Office. This role is an expansion on the SVP Biz Dev role with FreemanXP, which was also a division of Freeman.My main charge at Freeman is to lead a team of business developers who specialize in servicing our corporate customers. The team builds relationships with marketers who may need a new exhibit house, events firm, logistics partner, or turnkey brand experience agency.I also lead our quickly growing New York office — the home base to a mix of Freeman team members from sales, creative, digital, design, delivery, operations, production, measurement, strategy and marketing.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Sales and business development leadership across markets for FreemanXP, the brand experience agency within the broader Freeman organization. FreemanXP uses the power of social engagement to inspire audiences to action. Whether online or face-to-face, FreemanXP connects individuals and brands in ways that accelerate engagement and create transformational change on a global scale. FreemanXP offers a full range of marketing solutions from strategy and creative services through event/production management and measurement.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

The primary purpose of this role is to create a unified new business effort across North America, and to build a strong sense of community amongst business development colleagues. Offices include New York, Boston, Exhibits (NJ), Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco and Los Angeles.The remit also includes working in lock-step with global marketing to set priorities for agency growth efforts, participating as a member of the senior leadership team, developing tools and solutions for the global growth community, and networking across agency lines to drive collaboration with sister IPG and CMG agencies.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Charged with group account direction and business development / new category growth for Jack Morton's New York region. This role is part of a Jack leadership team that develops and maintains an ongoing and well defined road map for the company's new-from-new account development, organic account growth, and cross-pollination opportunities with sister IPG agencies.

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for Eastern Region business strategy and sales management, working with the organization's Client Service, Production, Creative, Digital, Marketing, Entertainment and Training team colleagues to identify and apply best practices for business development.This role also included the day-to-day management of a group of accounts in the healthcare, technology, and consumer categories.

New York, Ny, Us

Founded in 1994, TBA Global, LLC is one of the world's leading producers and marketers of connective brand experiences. Fortune 1000 Companies such as IBM, McDonald's, Walmart, State Farm and Ford return to TBA time and time again to ensure that their audiences are engaged, connected, transformed and inspired to action.Headquartered in New York with offices in 10 cities across the US and Canada, TBA is ranked a top 25 marketing agency by Advertising Age magazine and is on the Event Marketer magazine "Hot List".

New York, Ny, Us

Marina Maher Communications is a leading marketing to women agency, and proudly one of five roster PR firms servicing Procter & Gamble. This assignment included the leadership of the Head & Shoulders and Secret Deodorant account teams, with specific focus on program development and organic account growth.

This role was created at Caffeine in response to the consistent revenue growth in the years prior. Responsibilities included revenue growth for the agency, annual sales target planning, sales projections, management of sales colleagues, design and implementation of new processes, recruiting and onboarding, and the management of the weekly work stream from both a sales and operations perspective.

Caffeine Media is a production company with a strong focus on a health and beauty client base. The company executes an average of 30 programs in New York each year for brands within The Estee Lauder Companies, Coty Beauty and L'Oreal Paris. Other clients served during my tenure include the Skin Cancer Foundation, FEI Women's Health, P&G Beauty, The Melissa K. Bambino Melanoma Foundation, Dow Chemicals, and Bath & Body Works.As VP of Sales, I was also the company's first employee at the start-up stage. Very proud to see our efforts result in such a strong run of growth.

Cubic B's was a boutique creative shop, specializing in events and video for Fortune 500 clients. Primary clients served within this role included Godiva, Ricoh, and Fortis Benefits. The remit as SAE was business development: Outreach, capabilities, proposal work and organic growth.

Caribiner International was a leading communications agency most renowned for large scale corporate productions and training initiatives. Caribiner ultimately became a part of Jack Morton Worldwide in the early 2000's. The AE role on the IBM business was designed to expand our business within the software and server divisions - reporting into the global account director.

New York, Ny, Ny, Us

Gained a strong foundation in account management at Brouillard, an integrated PR and advertising firm owned by JWT. Enjoyed rapid progression from Group Assistant to AE in just over a year and was elected to complete the AAAA's Institute for Advanced Advertising Studies. Clients included Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, VisaPLUS, and United Technologies.

Ba, American Studies / French

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