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INNOVATORS are critical to moving our business forward

Cover2012-60Every year since 2006, The Internationalist has named those agency executives who possess the rare ability to rethink current notions of brand building by simplifying complex internal processes, encouraging collaboration, managing risk while working in the midst of fast change, keeping sight of “the big idea,” championing multinational strategy, and involving customers directly in the creative process.  Known as Innovators , they underscore how break-through thinking knows no bounds of geography, age, company size, or title within today’s agency organizations. 
 
This marks The Internationalist’s seventh annual Innovators and celebrates 30 men and women from agencies around the global who were nominated by their industry colleagues. According to their peers, the 2012 Innovators are leading lights— champions of multinational strategy, adept at innovative communications, individuals who think about advertising in new ways, and advocates of responsible brand-building. 
 
It is never easy to list similarities among such a diversity of people, disciplines, national origins and backgrounds.  Yet this year, a few interesting trends do emerge.  It’s clear that New York, and now Silicon Valley, attract industry talent from all over the world.  Some of the boldest and bravest advertising ideas are coming from places not immediately associated with creativity; this includes Colombia and Myanmar among this year’s group.   And although the 2012 Innovator job titles vary dramatically—from Chief Experience Officer to CEO to EVP Insights & Strategy to COO World Markets to Social Marketing Lead to Global Chief Performance Officer to Director of Business Intelligence to Worldwide Digital Creative Director— it is clear that regularly redefining notions of innovation steers all of them toward excellence.

First Last Title Company Location
Wayne Arnold Co-Founder and Global CEO Profero US-NY & UK-London
Valerie Beauchamp Senior Vice President, Director Starcom USA US-Chicago
Jordan Bitterman SVP/Social Marketing Practice Lead Digitas US-NY
Chris Boothe CEO Spark  US-Chicago
Arvid  Boström Managing Partner MEC Germany-Cologne
Beth Doyle Innovations Director Vivaki US-NY
James Fox CEO RedPeak Branding US-NY
Jan Gerits Dir. Business Intelligence & Development Omnicom Media Group US-Miami (Latam)
Huw Griffiths Global Chief Performance Officer UM US-NY
Warren Griffiths SVP, Global Digital Director Starcom USA US-NY
Bob Habeck Executive Director- Global Accounts Omnicom Media Group US-Chicago
Jonathan Hoffman Chief Experience Officer Starcom USA US-Chicago
Sebastian Jespersen CEO Vertic US & Denmark
Prashant Kumar President, Asia IPG Mediabrands Malaysia- KL
Anna Khin Khin  Kyawt Founder SAIL Myanmar (Burma)
John Handley CEO SAIL Myanmar (Burma)
David Lee Worldwide Digital Executive Creative Director TBWA/Worldwide US-NY
Michael Litchfield VP, Executive Creator Director Doremus US-San Francisco
John Noe CEO & Founding Partner Rokkan US-NY
Jitka Petrickova Managing Partner- West MEC US-San Francisco
Tamina Plum Business Director ZenithOptimedia UK-London
Sarah Power EVP, Director Insights & Strategy Initiative US-NY
Jim Russell Chief Innovation Officer McKinney US- N.Carolina
Francisco Samper Co-Founder   Lowe SSP3  Colombia- Bogota
Jose Miguel Sokoloff Co-Founder Lowe SSP3  Colombia- Bogota
Miguel Magalhães  Santos Vice Chairman-elect, ICOM+IN Brandia Central Portugal- Lisbon
Patrick  Walhain  Chairman-elect, ICOM+IN Quai des Orfevres France-Paris
Andrea Suarez President, World Markets  IPG Mediabrands US-Miami (Latam)
Sue Unerman Chief Strategy Officer MediaCom UK UK-London
Steve Williams President, PHD New York PHD US-NY
Damian Winstanley Managing Director OMD International  UK-London
Jarek Ziebinski President (Asia Pacific) Leo Burnett Singapore

2012 Agency Innovators

  • Andrea Suarez
  • Arvid Boström
  • Beth Doyle
  • Bob Habeck
  • Chris Boothe
  • Damian Winstanley
  • David Lee
  • Dr. Anna Khin Khin Kyawt and John Handley
  • Huw Griffiths
  • INNOVATORS are critical to moving our business forward
  • James Fox
  • Jan Gerits
  • Jarek Ziebinski
  • Jim Russell
  • Jitka Petrickova
  • John Noe
  • Jonathan Hoffman
  • Jordan Bitterman
  • Jose Miguel Sokoloff & Francisco Samper
  • Michael Litchfield
  • Miguel Magalhães Santos
  • Patrick Walhain
  • Prashant Kumar
  • Sarah Power
  • Sebastian Jespersen
  • Steve Williams
  • Sue Unerman
  • Tamina Plum
  • Valerie Beauchamp
  • Warren Griffiths
  • Wayne Arnold

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