The Ad Council, the non-profit organization dedicated to using communications to drive social change, elected new members to its board of directors at its fall meeting held virtually yesterday. Hayley Romer, chief revenue officer and publisher of The Atlantic, has been named secretary of the board, succeeding Laura Corb, sr. partner, McKinsey & Company. The Ad Council Board is chaired by David Fischer, chief revenue officer, Facebook. Vice chairs include Linda Yaccarino, chairman, advertising sales and client partnerships, NBCUniversal, Jacki Kelley, CEO, Dentsu International, and Diego Scotti, chief marketing officer at Verizon.
The Ad Council’s board of directors is comprised of a prestigious group of senior marketing and media executives who provide expertise, insights and financial support to ensure the Ad Council’s social good communication campaigns are effective and impactful. Most recently, the Ad Council board of directors led the media, marketing, advertising and entertainment industry’s response to the COVID-19 crisis with unprecedented communications efforts.
New members of the Ad Council Board of Directors include:
- David Cohen, CEO, Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)
- Seth Dallaire, chief revenue officer, Instacart
- Leslie Gillin, CMO, JPMorgan Chase
- Michael Guth, SVP and CMO, Spectrum Reach, the advertising sales business of Charter Communications
- Elizabeth Herbst-Brady, VP, head of North American sales & global client solutions, Verizon Media
- Lee Hurley, CMO, Northwestern Mutual
- Sean Lyons, global CEO, R/GA
- Scott Kelliher, head of brand advertising & partnerships, eBay Ads
- Matt Kohan, VP, marketing culture & capabilities, Anheuser-Busch
- Suzanne Kounkel, CMO, Deloitte
- Barri Rafferty, EVP, head of communications, Wells Fargo
- Elizabeth Rutledge, CMO, American Express
- Cara Sabin, CEO, Sundial Brands, Unilever
- Melissa Selcher, chief marketing and communications officer, LinkedIn
- Raj Singhal, COO, Huge
- Tim Sims, chief revenue officer, The Trade Desk
- Marisa Thalberg, EVP, chief brand and marketing officer, Lowe’s
- Alicia Tillman, global CMO, SAP
- Sebastian Tomich, global head of advertising, marketing solutions, New York Times
- Mark Zagorski, CEO, DoubleVerify
“The critical social change needed today requires cross-industry collaboration, leadership and commitment,” said Lisa Sherman, president and CEO of the Ad Council. “Our board of directors epitomizes the best and brightest across the marketing and media communities who share an unyielding commitment to improving the world. I’m so excited to welcome our newest members and leverage their innovation and passion as we address the most important social issues facing our country.”
The Ad Council also added two new members to its Leadership Council, which consists of executives across media, tech, marketing and advertising who identify ways their companies can support Ad Council campaigns and the country’s most critical social issues.
New members of the Ad Council Leadership Council:
- Paula Davis, chief communications officer, Colgate-Palmolive Company
- Samantha Roth, VP communications, National Football League
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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