Acknowledgments
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Taylor Gray
WW Associate Publisher-Marketing Director
Time
Past President
Linda Cornelius
Sr. Partner-Managing Director
Ogilvy & Mather New York
President Elect
Carl Johnson
Co-founder
Anomaly
First Vice President
Gary Steele
Consultant
Treasurer
Rick Kendall, PhD
VP-Research
MedMeme LLC
Secretary
Edward Dandridge
Managing Partner
BrandSphere Partners
Brian Collins
Chairman-CCO
Collins | Design Research
Sam Craig
Professor of Marketing
Catherine & Peter Kellner
Professor
Stern School of Business
New York University
Kendall Crolius
VP-General Manager
Forbes Conference Group
Jane Mackie
Vice President-Marketing
The Kor Group
Oswald Mendez
Managing Partner-Integrated
Communications
The Vidal Partnership
Jonathan Mildenhall
VP-Creative &
Communications Devel.
The Coca-Cola Co.
Matt Seiler
President-CEO
PHD North America
Jerry Shereshewsky
CEO
Grandparents.com
Jim Spaeth
Founding Partner
Sequent Partners
Marty Susz
Managing Director
Euro RSCG Tonic
Verchele Wiggins
VP-Global Brand
Communications
Holiday Inn Family of Brands
Intercontinental Hotels Group
STAFF
Mary Lee Keane
Executive Director
Denise McDevitt
Associate Director
Erica Stoppenbach
Director
Effie Standards & Guidelines
Cathy Davis
Director-Finance &
Administration
Lukas Pospichal
Managing Director
GreenBook
Alexandra Todd Arguimbau
Assistant Bookkeeper-Administrative Assistant
Angie Carballo
Program Assistant
Nancy Cardenas
Account Manager
GreenBook
Elizabeth Hammel
Effie International Coordinator
Vincent Mesolella
Greenbook & Effie Production
Coordinator
Stephanie Pulner
Research Assistant
Nisha Stephen
Effie Program Coordinator
Jill VanHee
Membership & Marketing
Coordinator
USA EFFIE COMMITTEE
Ellen Hyde Pace (Chair)
Exec. VP-Account Managing
Director, North America
Young & Rubicam
Gary Steele (Chair)
Consultant
Nina Abnee
Exec. VP-Managing Director
Leo Burnett USA
Daniel Cherry III
Sr. Strategic Planner
Anomaly
John Colasanti
CEO
Carmichael Lynch
Carl Johnson
Co-founder
Anomaly
Jim Kite
President-Connections &
Research Analytics
Director-Research, Insight &
Accountability
MediaVest Worldwide
Neil Powell
Partner
The Powell Rogers Project
Barbara Reilly
Managing Partner-Group Account Director
Arnold Worldwide
GLOBAL EFFIE COMMITTEE
Cleve Langton (Chair)
Corporate Exec.VP-Director,
Business Development WW
DDB Worldwide
Carisa Bianchi
President
TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles
Jeffrey Chapman
Global Director-Brand
Communications
Schick Wilkinson Sword
Marcio Moreira
Vice Chairman, Global
Professional Management
McCann WorldGroup
2008 WORLD EFFIE
FESTIVAL BOARD
Stephen Mangham (Chair)
Group Chairman
Ogilvy & Mather Singapore
Ambar Brahmachary
President
Y&R Asia
Eric Einhorn
Exec. VP-Chief Strategy Officer
McCann WorldGroup
Gorse Jeffries
Executive Planning Director
Ogilvy & Mather
John Merrifield
Creative-at-Large
TBWA\Asia Pacific
Pranesh Misra
President-CEO
Lowe India
Michele Simpson-Crew
Asia Pacific Talent Director
TBWA\Group
Chris Thomas
Chairman-CEO
BBDO Asia Pacific
Charles Wigley
Chairman
Bartle Bogle Hegarty
Asia Pacific
2008 ASIA-PACIFIC
EFFIE COMMITTEE
Judd Labarthe (Chair)
Executive Planning Director
Atletico International &
Argonauten G2
Patrick Mowe
Hon. Secretary
Institute of Advertising
Singapore
Rod Pullen
Executive Partner
Foo & Pullen
Jeffrey Seah
CEO
MindShare Singapore
David Tang
President-CEO
DDB Worldwide Singapore
