- Donny Deutsch
Donald Jay "Donny" Deutsch (born November 22, 1957 in Queens, New York) is an advertising executive and talk show host. Deutsch is the chairman of Deutsch, Inc., a $2.7 billion marketing company founded by his father that is the 10th-largest U.S. agency. In 2000, Donny sold his agency to the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) for a reported $300 million. He is also the managing partner of Deutsch Open City, an independent production company.
- Kevin Roberts
Kevin Roberts (born 1949) has been the Chief Executive Officer Worldwide of the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi since 1997. Roberts is a highly-regarded figure in the advertising industry due to his deep insight and creative mind. In September 2006, Saatchi & Saatchi won a US$430 million JC Penney contract because of the idea of "lovemarks", which was invented and promoted by Roberts. Kevin Roberts is currently attending UCLA.
- Jay Chiat
Jacob Morton "Jay" Chiat (October 25, 1931 - April 23, 2002) was an American advertising designer. Chiat was born in the Bronx in New York City and grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers College, graduating in 1953 and was inducted in its Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 2000. He served in the United States Air Force. In 1962, Chiat teamed up with Guy Day to form the Chiat/Day advertising agency in Los Angeles (now TBWAChiatDay).
- Charles Saatchi
Charles Saatchi (born June 9, 1943) was the co-founder with his brother Maurice of the global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, which became the world's biggest before the brothers were forced out of their own company in 1995. In the same year the Saatchi brothers formed a new agency called M&C Saatchi. Many large clients followed, and their new agency quickly overtook their ex agency in Britain's top ten.
- Scott Oki
Scott Oki (born October 5, 1948 in Seattle, Washington) is a former senior vice-president of sales and marketing for Microsoft who conceived and built Microsoft's international operations. Oki also played a crucial role in Microsoft's rapid domestic growth during the 1980s. Born to a Japanese-American family, Oki attended the University of Washington, but left after 18 months to join the Air Force. While in the service he took courses at the University of Colorado.
- William Bernbach
William (Bill) Bernbach (August 13, 1911, New York City - October 2, 1982, New York City) was a legendary figure in the history of American advertising. He was one of the three founders of Doyle Dane Bernbach and directed ad campaigns such as "Think Small" for Volkswagen Beetle (recognized by Advertising Age as the top advertising campaign of the 20th Century). Bernbach was noted for his devotion to creativity and offbeat themes, …
- Dean White
Dean White (1924-present) is a billionaire entrepreneur from Crown Point, Indiana. His father challenged him to "make a million dollars by your 40th birthday." White claims that he's "Missed, at the most, 12 days of work since 1946." In 1946 he joined his father's billboard business Whiteco Advertising Company, and took over in 1952. White sold his billboard business to Chancellor for $960 million in 1998.
- Maurice Saatchi Baron Saatchi
Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi, born June 21, 1946 is the co-founder of advertising agencies Saatchi and Saatchi and M&C Saatchi. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, to Jewish parents, he is the brother of Charles Saatchi. Following Michael Howard's elevation to the leadership of the Conservative Party in November 2003, Lord Saatchi was appointed joint chairman of the party with Liam Fox. He had responsibility for running the party machine, …
- Alex Faickney Osborn
Alex Faickney Osborn was an advertising manager and the author of the creativity technique named "brainstorming". Osborn was born in the Bronx and spent his childhood in New York. He was a graduate of Hamilton College, where he had worked for the school newspaper. Upon graduation, Osborn attempted a career in journalism in Buffalo, New York, and worked at the Buffalo Times and the Buffalo Express, …
- Arturo Moreno
Arturo "Arte" Moreno (born August of 1946) is an American billionaire of Mexican decent. On May 15, 2003, made history by becoming the first Hispanic to own a major sports team in the United States when he purchased the Anaheim Angels baseball team from the Walt Disney Company
- John Singleton
John Singleton AM is an Australian entrepreneur. He was born in Sydney in 1942 and educated at Fort Street High School, New South Wales. Singleton, known as "Singo", commenced a career in advertising in the 1960s before founding with others the Sydney agency Strauss, Palmer and Singleton, McAllan (SPASM) which was later sold to the US Doyle Dane Bernbach network in the early 1970s.
- Jean-Claude Decaux
Jean-Claude Decaux is a French billionaire who earned his fortune in advertising. He is the chair of the advertising firm JCDecaux, which is now run by his sons, Jean-François and Jean-Charles.
- Maxwell Dane
Maxwell "Mac" Dane (June 7, 1906-August 8, 2004) was an American advertising executive and co-founder of the Doyle Dane Bernbach agency. For advertising against U.S. presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964, he became one of the original 20 people mentioned on Nixon's Enemies List. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dane began his advertising career in his mid-teens, working as secretary to the manager of advertising at Stern Bros.
- Daniel Snyder
Daniel M. "Dan" Snyder is the current owner of the Washington Redskins football team and Chairman of the Board of Six Flags Inc., the world's largest amusement park and theme park operator. He is married to Tanya, with whom he has two daughters and a son.
- Gaby Castellanos
Gaby Castellanos, was born in Venezuela in 1970. Begin her advertising career of the hand of Bobby Coimbra (JWT's Worldwide Creative CEO). Became Associated Creative Director with only 23 years old, and was the first young Associated Creative Director woman in Latin America. Winner during that period of awards like Cannes Lions, NYF, Clio, Fiap, among others. She travels to Spain where she lives and works at the moment, …
- James Walter Thompson
James Walter Thompson was the namesake of the JWT advertising agency and a pioneer of many advertising techniques. He was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1864, while Thompson was serving in the Marine Corps, William James Carlton had started selling advertising space in religious magazines. The agency was called Carlton and Smith although almost nothing is known about the Smith partner. In 1868, Carlton hired Thompson as a bookkeeper.
- David Ogilvy
David MacKenzie Ogilvy, was a notable advertising executive. He has often been called “The Father of Advertising.” In 1962, "Time" called him “the most sought-after wizard in today's advertising industry." He was known for a career of expanding the bounds of both creativity and morality.
- Corey Rudl
Corey Rudl (1970-2005) was a Canadian marketing strategist, and founder and President of The Internet Marketing Center. He was also an author, speaker, and software producer. Rudl started his first online business in 1994, turning it into a multi-million-dollar business based on Internet marketing. In response to the demand for his advice, Corey founded the Internet Marketing Center, where he taught techniques and strategies that stemmed from his own experience.
- Josh Linkner
Josh Linkner is founder and CEO of ePrize, an interactive promotion agency that develops and carries out online promotions, incorporating online sweepstakes, instant-win games, interactive loyalty programs, online trivia games and other promotions that directly connect individual consumers with company Web sites. As a pioneer in interactive marketing, he's been involved in the development of thousands of digital marketing strategies and e-commerce solutions over the last 15 years.
- Michael Tomczyk
Michael S. Tomczyk is best known for his role in the development and marketing of the Commodore VIC-20, the first microcomputer to sell one million units; and for his early role as a pioneer in telecomputing. More broadly, he has come to be known as a technology futurist through his activities as Managing Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School, which he joined in 1995.
- George Newall
George Newall enrolled at Florida State University in 1955 after spending two years in the Army’s 11th Airborne Division Band at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He studied composition with John Boda, winning Florida Composers League awards in 1958, 1959, and 1960. After graduation, Newall moved to New York City and took a $50 per week job in the mailroom of an advertising agency.
- Ed Tourriol
Edmond Tourriol is a French comic-book author. He was born in Talence, Gironde (France in 1974. He founded Climax Comics studios with his former partner Olivier Dejeufosse. He published with Climax Studios more than 50 fanzines and wrote some of his own comics Reflex and Zero Force. In 2001 he set up his advertising agency Clark System Innovation in partnership with Stephan Boschat.
- C. William Boyer
C. William Boyer was born in Los Angeles, California in 1965. Educated at San Diego State University, Boyer received his Bachelor of Arts in 1989. From 1990 to 1999 he worked as an advertising executive for various North American newspapers, and began writing fiction in the mid-1990s. His first mystery, entitled One Month To Midnight (2001), revolved around a series of murders connected to Aztec history and religion.
- Pam Chun
Pam Chun is a writer and marketing consultant, most notable as the author of the book "The Money Dragon".
- Mark Charles Merenda
Mark Charles Merenda (born September 13, 1950) is the author of articles and books, including "Satan's Harvest" published by Dell with co-author Michael Lasalandra in 1990 and made into a movie in 1995 "The Possession of Michael D." (1995) (TV).
- Corey Rudl
Hello Everyone! I am a type of person that likes to just go out there and have a great adventure. I mostly travel now and see what's in this world. There are great places out there if you don't have that time to go places. I am an internet marketer and helping others succeed in internet marketing.