2012 NAMD Conference Speakers
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Janice Bond
Brand Strategist | Arts & Culture Consultant
SAVANT | SAVANT
www.savantsavant.com
Janice Bond is a leading-edge strategist and business development professional, who both develops and manages a myriad of creative projects for a spectrum of clients. Such include world-class independent artists, agencies, non-profit organizations, record labels, destination events, and Fortune 100 companies to start.
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Ty Christian
Chief Marketing Strategist
Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King
National Memorial Foundation Project, Inc.
Mr. Christian is a marketing and sales executive with over 35 years of diverse marketing experience in the cable television, telephone and advertising industries. He has worked in several marketing management positions with such industry leaders as GTE, J. Walter Thompson, Times Mirror, Westinghouse, Financial News Network and Cablevision Industries.
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Keenan Davis
Director of Digital Marketing and Media
TurtleBeach
Keenan currently serves as Director of Digital Marketing and Media for TurtleBeach. TurtleBeach manufactures chat-enabled gaming headsets for the video game player. Over the past year in this role, Mr. Davis has enjoyed double digit percentage revenue growth and tripled website traffic. He also led the launch of Turtle Beach's mobile site which better caters to the company's primary target market of young men aged 13 - 34.
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Ernest Freeman
Diversity Consultant
Freeman & Associates
Ernie Freeman, a dynamic and passionate diversity professional, is a partner in Freeman & Associates, Counseling and Consulting Centers in Chicago. Formerly a lead supplier diversity manager with PepsiCo, he was responsible for executing the company's initiative which generated near $1.3 billion with minority and women businesses and instrumental in promoting their Best-in-Class efforts receiving numerous awards and recognitions for his expertise.
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Melissa Dawn Johnson
President
Velvet Suite Marketing Consulting Group, Inc.
The authority on authentic Global Branding and Personal Transformation, Melissa Dawn Johnson has a proven track record of elevating the world’s greatest brands. Johnson is one of the few, hand-selected, American female advisory board member for the World Brand Congress, in Mumbai India, a global think-tank of brand masters. Johnson has been an on-air contributor to CNN through Morning Motivation and currently contributes to Huffingtonpost.com and Essence magazine.
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Lester McCarroll
President and CEO
The McCarroll Group
The McCarroll Group creates and seeks ideas that enhance urban lifestyles through technology, and has helped a range of individuals and companies create new revenue streams from these ideas. Lester and his associates "connect the dots" between technologies, business models, strategy and marketing initiatives and trends, product planning, and a global network of people and companies to help bring these new ideas to market.
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Cheryl Pearson-McNeil
Senior Vice President of
Public Affairs and Government Relations
Nielsen
Cheryl Pearson-McNeil has a proven track record of building brand awareness and managing the reputation of major businesses through public speaking and community outreach.
» View her Celebrating 60 For 60 Highlight
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Jeffrey R. Meade
President
The Reason
Mr. Meade's brand marketing expertise reflects his years of client and agency experience - working at Toyota's youth nameplate, Scion and agencies such as The Rebel Organization and Alloy Marketing and Promotions.
» View his Celebrating 60 For 60 Highlight
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McGhee Williams-Osse
Co-CEO
Burrell Communications
McGhee Williams Osse has performed nearly every job in advertising. She started her career in traffic at WSB-Radio in
Atlanta soon leaving to pursue an opportunity as a copywriter and layout artist at Sears -- her first “real” jobs after completing post-graduate course work in advertising at the University of South Carolina. Combining her creativity with managerial skills, she became a field-marketing manager for KFC, marketing manager for the General Mills Restaurant Group, and a marketing director for RTM, Inc.
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Christina Steed
Vice president
Client Relations
Flowers Communications Group
Christina Steed is vice president of client relations with Flowers Communications Group (FCG) in Chicago, Illinois. She is primarily responsible for business development, client relations and external visibility for the agency. Additionally, she provides strategic counsel for the agency's accounts including McDonald's, Wells Fargo and AT&T.
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Jetta Bates Vasilatos
Market Engagement
Strategist/Lifestyle expert
Twist Global
Lifestyle expert with 10+ years of award- winning consumer engagement/strategic planning experience for luxury and global brands like BMW and Coca-Cola.
Jetta appears on stations such as WCIU-TV, KBS-TV(Korea), ABC-7, CLTV and KBC- TV (Kenya) and writes for national print publications such as Essence, Recommend, and HomeStyle Design. Jetta is the host of the weekly Jettasetting segment on WVON-AM 1690.
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Sherman Wright
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Commonground
Inc. Magazine's 2010 fastest growing privately owned company, Fortune 500 brands include, MillerCoors, The Coca-Cola Company, Nike, Bacardi USA, and General Mills.
» View his Celebrating 60 For 60 Highlight
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Deborah Gray-Young
Vice President
Media Director-Toyota
Burrell Communications
Deborah Gray-Young is a seasoned marketing communications professional with 25 years experience in developing and implementing strategic marketing communications plans.
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