Bill Oberlander is Chief Creative Officer of Cossette NY, with clients Cannondale and
Schwinn Bicycles, Waterford Crystal, US Coast Guard and The McGraw-Hill Companies.

Prior to Cossette NY, Bill was the Executive Creative at McCann New York (Intel, Exxon Mobil, Black & Decker, Cadbury); Ogilvy & Mather (Motorola, AT&T, Nestle Waters, Ameritrade); and Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners (Snapple, Target, Hennessy).

Bill is former President of the Art Directors Club of New York, where he established the
Young Guns Show, bringing fame to the young creatives in the ad business; as well as the ADC GrandMasters Program, celebrating outstanding educators in the Advertising and Design Community. He also is an educator at School of Visual Arts, and serves on the Ad Council’s Creative Review Committee.

Bill established Agencies In Action in March 2009, the not-for-profit organization fighting hunger in NYC by rallying ad executives to serve in their local soup kitchens.

Tham Khai Meng is the Worldwide Creative Director at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide. He is recognized as one of the world’s most awarded creative directors. He joined Ogilvy & Mather Asia Pacific in 2000, which, under his leadership, was named Creative Network of the Year by Campaign Brief Asia for seven consecutive years. Khai was also named Creative Director of the Year over those same seven years. Advertising Age deems Khai “One of the world’s most influential people in the communications business”.

Khai has served on a number of jury panels, including Cannes, as well as several boards, including Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Economic Review Committee. Khai has also served on three Temasek group companies between 2003 and 2005.

Khai is currently working on a project with the United Nations to bring sustainability
to the public and to the world leaders’ awareness.

Nancy Hill has been appointed to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of the
American Association of Advertising Agencies in New York City.

Hill, 49, a veteran leader of AAAA member agencies on both coasts, has distinguished herself as a technologically-savvy champion of digital marketing tools, as well as a leading voice for the need for increased diversity and youth education and training in the advertising industry.

Hill most recently served as chief executive officer of Lowe New York, where she led an open-source agency reorganization and oversaw the launch of Lola (Lowe Latina) in the United States. Previously, she was executive vice president, managing director, at BBDO New York, overseeing many of the agency’s largest accounts. Additionally, Hill served in management roles at Doner, Baltimore; Goldberg Moser O’Neill and Hill | Holliday, San Francisco and New York; and TBWA\Chiat\Day, St. Louis and Los Angeles.

Susan Credle is CCO, Leo Burnett.

Susan’s work includes turning the M&M’s spokescandy into worldwide pop icons.
As co-creative leader, Susan turned Cingular Wireless into an iconic brand in 2000.
Then when AT&T acquired Cingular in 2007, she repeated the performance and helped
AT&T rediscover its dominant brand status. Susan has also headed successful campaigns for Pepsi, Bank of America, Lowes, Visa and Armstrong flooring.

Susan has been inducted into the AAF Advertising Hall of Achievements. Her work has
been awarded by Cannes, One Show, Andys, Clios, CA, The New York Festival, The London International Awards, Kelly Awards, Effies and National Addys. Recently, Boards Magazine selected Susan as an “Advertising Women of Excellence,” recognizing the significant impact her leadership has had on the advertising community around the world.

A skilled manager of people, budgets and brands, Sally brings over twenty years of multidisciplinary marketing experience to Cossette NY. Drawing on an unlikely degree
in Chemistry, Sally is using a scientist’s deliberate methodologies to converge the ingenuity and hunger of a boutique shop with the reach and resources of a global agency.

Sally has spent her professional life developing and executing successful business strategies on a global scale for some of the world’s most famous brands. She spent six years working as the Senior Vice President of Young and Rubicam, San Francisco, where she was in charge of business development across the Y&R Wunderman operations. Her success in that position led to her being appointed Chief Marketing Officer of Young & Rubicam, North America, a position she held just prior to taking over her current role as President of Cossette NY in 2007.

Cindy Gallop is an entrepreneur and the founder of ifwerantheworld.com. She spent the early years of her career at BBH London, running the large global accounts of Coca-Cola, Polaroid and Ray-Ban. In 1996 Cindy helped start and run BBH Asia Pacific in Singapore, and two years later did the same thing for the New York office of BBH. Just four years after it opened its doors in New York, BBH was named Adweek’s 2002 Eastern Agency of the year, with award winning work for Johnnie Walker, Axe and Levi’s.

Most recently Cindy founded Cindy Gallop LLC where she offers selective counsel to clients looking for radical and innovative ways to change the game in their sector. She also serves as an advisor to numerous technology startups.

Cindy is a longtime advocate for encouraging the advertising community to bring creative thinking to social causes. In 2003, she was voted AWNY’s Woman of the year.

Mike Byrne is Creative Director at Anomaly and a former Creative Director at Wieden+Kennedy Portland, where he served as the co-creative chief for the agency’s cornerstone Nike Account from 2000 - 2006. During his tenure, W+K Portland amassed more awards than any other agency in the United States including two ‘Agency of the Year’ honors. Importantly, Nike’s business grew exponentially during the course of those six years. While at W+K, Mike managed a creative group of over thirty people, oversaw creative development for Nike in the US and Latin America. Sub-brands with Nike included: Basketball (Pro and Collegiate), Football, Baseball, Running, Cycling (Lance Armstrong/ LiveStrong (Yellow Band), Olympics, Soccer, Tennis and the ACG division. Products included both footwear and apparel for men and women.

Mike has been recognized throughout his career for creative excellence. He has won numerous awards at Cannes, D&AD, The One Show, Art Directors Club, Clios and CA amongst others.

Doug Jaeger is the Innovation Director at Taxi. He is an in-demand industry contributor with notable credentials in design, digital, social media, as well as event and brand experience. He has previously served as Associate Creative Director and Partner at JWT and Group Creative Director and Managing Partner at TBWA. In 2003, he co-founded New York-based thehappycorp, which aimed to improve national happiness by using design, experience, and technology to create connections between consumers and progressive brands. Their clients included Apple, Bacardi, Virgin, VH1 and MoMA.

Doug’s work has won awards at Cannes for Absolut.com, the Online Paid Media campaign, and the Doctors Without Borders Campaign. In 2008, he was elected president of the Art Directors Club, the youngest in the club’s history. He has served as a juror for the interactive One Show, the Effies, and Webby Awards.

Justin Gignac is a freelance art director and New York artist. His background includes serving as Senior Art Director for Toy, where he helped create the pop culture hit called Elf Yourself, the fastest growing viral website ever. He has also served as an Art Director for Fallon New York and Ogilvy & Mather.

Justin is currently a prominent and innovative New York artist. He has received significant attention and accolades for his projects including New York City Garbage and Wants For Sale. The One Show, D&AD, Art Directors Club, Andy Awards and the London International Advertising Awards have all recognized Justin for his work. He was named one of Creativity Magazine’s “Young Creative’s to Watch” and the ADC also honored him as a “Young Gun”
in 2006.

Priscilla Natkins, Executive Vice President, Director of Client Services, joined The Advertising Council in January 1999 after seventeen years of account management at several New York advertising agencies, including DMB&B, JWT and Bates USA. Ms. Natkins worked on a broad range of packaged goods and financial services accounts during her long tenure in marketing within the advertising industry, including work on Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Citicorp, and T.Rowe Price.

At the Ad Council, Ms. Natkins oversees the development and evaluation of all of the public service advertising campaigns on the Ad Council docket. To this end, Ms. Natkins is chiefly responsible for the Ad Council’s relationships with nearly fifty non-profit and government client groups, as well as over forty volunteer advertising agencies. In addition to managing the strategic and creative development of the Ad Council campaigns, Ms. Natkins oversees the Research and Evaluation Department, as well as the Creative Services Department, which is responsible for all the printed collateral material developed at the Ad Council, and the physical and digital distribution of the PSA materials to media outlets across the country.

Rick Kurnit, partner of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, has 30 years experience in the advertising and marketing services and publishing industries, representing advertisers, advertising agencies, public relations, promotion, and publishing companies. He has handled the leading cases defining the application of intellectual property law to advertising and marketing communications, including representing the defendants in the Vanna White, Woody Allen and Jackie Onassis look-alike cases; Viking Press, Nelson DeMille, Terry McMillan, and other authors and publishers in libel cases based on works of fiction; Prodigy in the Stratton Oakmont case and other cases defining online liability; John Deere in defining use of trademarks in comparative advertising; the maker of a smaller copy of the necklace from Titanic in defining the scope of parallel marketing; and "Gone With The Wind" in defining parody and copyright infringement. Rick has also handled numerous Lanham Act and comparative advertising cases

Managing partner of Stephen M. Smith & Company, LLC., Mr. Smith has over
25 years experience in public accounting and advising clients in financial matters; particularly, in the advertising, design, entertainment and media services industries. Prior to co-founding, Stephen M. Smith & Company, L.L.C., he was a Senior Partner at Starr & Company, P.C., Certified Public Accountants in New York. Mr. Smith has advised on many mergers and acquisitions in the advertising, entertainment and production industries.

Steve received his B.B.A degree in Accounting from Adelphi University in Garden City, New York. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. He lives with his wife and three children in Great Neck, New York.