Michael I. Roth is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. He added the CEO title in January of 2005. Prior to becoming Chairman, in July 2004, Roth had been a member of Interpublic's Board since 2002.

Before assuming his current role, Roth was Chairman and CEO of The MONY Group Inc. (NYSE: MNY), a financial services holding company that provides a wide range of protection, asset accumulation and retail brokerage products and services through its member companies. Under Roth's leadership, The MONY Group diversified its business mix, broadened its distribution channels and enhanced its ability to compete in today's financial services marketplace.

Roth is a member of the Board of Directors for Pitney Bowes Inc., the Ad Council and the Gaylord Entertainment Company.

He also participates in several civic organizations. He sits on the Leadership Committee of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; the Board of Directors of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy and The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA). In addition, he is a Director of The Baruch College Fund, The Partnership for New York City and The Enterprise Foundation.

A certified public accountant, Roth holds an L.L.M. degree from New York University Law School and a J.D. from Boston University Law School. He is a 1967 graduate of the City College of New York.

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Frank is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the Interpublic Group (NYSE:IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. In his role as CFO, Frank has direct management responsibility for all areas of Global Finance, Information Technology and Investor Relations.

Frank joined Interpublic with extensive experience in the media and entertainment industry, having played leadership roles at Columbia House, which was owned by the Blackstone Group, as well as The Seagram Company Ltd. owners of Universal Studios, Universal Music Group, and the Universal Theme Parks. In addition, he spent more than a decade at Price Waterhouse, becoming a partner in the Entertainment and Media practice of the firm in 1996.

Philippe Krakowsky is Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Relations for The Interpublic Group (NYSE:IPG), a leading global provider of marketing services.

In this capacity, he works with the company’s CEO to define strategy for the group and with agency management to implement key strategic initiatives.  During recent years, he has played a significant role in: the merger of Draft and FCB to produce a new agency model based on a combination of accountability and creativity; the successful evolution of IPG’s aligned media operations; oversight of developing digital and emerging media capabilities; as well as on multi-agency client opportunities.  He also oversees communications for IPG and helps to lead our diversity and inclusion activities, including serving as an executive sponsor of employee resource groups and a member of the company’s Corporate Diversity Council.

Krakowsky has extensive experience devising strategies and building brands, particularly in the professional services arena.  Prior to joining IPG, he played a leading role in articulating and differentiating the Young & Rubicam brand to a broad range of audiences – employees, clients, prospects, the financial community and the media – in the period leading up to and following Y&R’s transformation from a private to a public company.  Previously, he led the positioning and all communications efforts for BBDO when that agency carved out the niche it still enjoys as advertising’s premier global creative network.

Philippe started his career as an entrepreneur in the technology industry and moved into advertising at the heralded New York creative boutique Levine, Huntley, Schmidt and Beaver, where he worked to market both the agency and its clients’ businesses.  In 1999, he was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s “Hall of Achievement,” the premier United States industry honor for marketing services professionals under age 40.

Timothy Sompolski became Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies, in July of 2004.

Sompolski has a long and distinguished career in the human resources field, most recently with Altria Group, Inc., where he was the Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Administration and led the function for six years until January 2003 when he left the company. He started with the Kraft Foods Division in 1984 as Manager of Compensation and International Benefits and subsequently served in a variety of compensation and benefits roles, culminating in his role as Vice President of Corporate Human Resources, a position he held until 1996. He was the Director of Compensation for McGraw Edison Company and began his career as an Assistant Personnel Manager with Quasar Electronics Company, a subsidiary of Matsushita Electronics.

Throughout his career, Sompolski has designed compensation programs for companies to reward individuals for driving improved financial performance and for actions that helped companies achieve broader strategic objectives. He has directed global talent management systems to maximize development opportunities for employees and has led employee and company diversity initiatives to focus on best practices for the advancement of women and minorities, both within the organization as well as with suppliers.

Nick Camera is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. He has been with Interpublic since 1993. Before joining Interpublic, Camera was the Assistant General Counsel for Avon Products Inc. for 10 years. Prior to that he was a General Attorney with Phelps Dodge Corporation from 1978 until 1982. He began his career as an Associate with Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston.

Camera holds a BS in Economics from Wagner College. He received his Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School as well as his MBA from Fordham University. He also holds a Masters Degree in American Studies From Columbia University.

Christopher F. Carroll is Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies.

Mr. Carroll joined Interpublic with comprehensive experience in SEC reporting and financial statement presentation, revenue recognition, Sarbanes Oxley implementation and compliance, forecasting and budgeting, and merger and acquisition accounting.

Most recently, Mr. Carroll was Controller of the McCann WorldGroup. Prior to joining McCann in 2005, Chris served as Chief Accounting Officer at Eyetech Pharmaceuticals where he was responsible for all aspects of the financial organization including the controllership function, regulatory reporting (SEC) and financial press releases, factory and cost accounting, accounting policy, tax accounting and compliance, budgeting and forecasting, the internal audit function and commercial product distribution.

Prior to Eyetech, Mr. Carroll was the Chief Accounting Officer at MIM Corporation, the Chief Accountant and Controller of Avaya Communications, and Financial Vice President at Lucent Technologies. Before his tenure at Avaya, he spent 10 years in public accounting at the New York offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), specializing in technology and communications. While at PwC, Mr. Carroll was the lead senior manager on some of the firm's largest accounts and participated in over 40 business acquisitions, ranging in size from $20 million to $40 billion, and managed over 25 separate engagements.

Mr. Carroll is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Institute of Internal Auditors , and the New York State Society of CPAs. He earned his Bachelor of Science with honors in accounting and business law from the Saint Frances College in New York .

Tom Dowling is Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. In addition to enterprise-wide risk analysis, Dowling has responsibility for Internal Audit, Insurance and Compliance including Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.

Prior to Interpublic, he was employed by Avon Products, Inc., having served in various financial roles in such areas as Corporate Tax, Financial Planning, Corporate Reporting and Accounting, Internal Audit, Risk Management and Y2K Project Leader. Prior to working with Avon, Dowling was with Pricewaterhouse. He is an MBA, CPA and a member of the AICPA, NYSSCPA’s and the IIA. Dowling is Volunteer Chairman, Gifts In Kind International, the largest product philanthropy organization.

Senior Vice President of Global Taxation  

Tony Alexandrou joined Interpublic as Senior Vice President of Global Taxation in November 2006.  Tony has over 20 years experience in international and domestic tax matters working with global companies in a variety of industries. 

Most recently, he was a partner with KPMG, focusing primarily on international tax matters for KPMG’s largest multinationals clients.  He was also the partner-in-charge of the KPMG Northeast International Tax practice.  During his tenure at KPMG, he managed international tax advisory services for many large companies, with a specialty in media and entertainment.  From 1986 through 1988, he was a Tax Manager with Omnicom Group.

Tony has degrees from Queens College, St. John’s University and Pace University.  He is also a CPA and an active member with various tax professional organizations such as TEI, IFA, CITE and the AICPA.

Senior Vice President, Finance and Development

Jonathan B. Burleigh is Senior Vice President, Finance and Development of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. He has responsibility for corporate development, including all internal and external M&A activity, as well as budgets, planning and global shared services operations. Mr. Burleigh joined Interpublic in 2002 as CFO of the Interpublic Sports and Entertainment Group. He joined the holding company in 2004 as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development. Prior to joining Interpublic, Mr. Burleigh was an investment banker at firms including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Burleigh has an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a graduate of Middlebury College.

Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer

Joseph Farrelly is Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG) one of the world's leading organizations or advertising agencies and marketing-services companies. He has held the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Aventis, Vivendi Universal, Joseph E. Seagrams and Sons, and Nabisco.

At Aventis, Mr. Farrelly was responsible for an IT organization that operated on a worldwide basis supporting the company's $20 billion global pharma business. He oversaw the implementation of major IT solutions to support the company's global business re-engineering initiatives based on SAP, Seibel, and Ariba platforms, as well as the development of standard IT architecture and infrastructure. He was also responsible for implementing the IT governance model for Aventis, maintaining relations with key IT partners, and was a member of the Aventis Operations Management Committee.

Prior to joining Aventis, Mr. Farrelly served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. In addition to its Spirits & Wine division, Seagram also included Universal Music Group and Universal Studios. At Seagram, Mr. Farrelly had global responsibility for the company's information systems and telecommunications, including standards, policies, processes and structure. He was part of a team that led the development of an enterprise-wide systems architecture, the development of IS-wide standards and the creation of a global infrastructure to support all of the company's business groups. He was also responsible for the development of global solutions for HR and Finance.

With the merger of Seagrams and Vivendi, Mr. Farrelly successfully managed the IT integration activities and was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of the newly formed Vivendi Universal Company.

At Nabisco, Inc. Mr. Farrelly was Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer where he was responsible for setting the overall direction of the company's information technology initiatives and directing its information services strategic and operational objectives. He created a “best in class” IT infrastructure services group, and successfully implemented major applications, including a large-scale SAP order management system and “best of breed” manufacturing & distribution suite.

Mr. Farrelly is a member of the Boards of Directors of Aperture Technologies, Inc., NetNumber and Tango Networks.

Senior Vice President, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer

Heide Gardner was named Director of Diversity in November of 2003 and promoted to Vice President, Diversity Management in December 2004. She was elected to the post of Senior Vice President – Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer in 2007. The first African American and person of color to serve as an officer of Interpublic Group (IPG), she is responsible for collaborating with senior management to develop new global inclusion management strategies and multicultural marketing programs for IPG and its worldwide family of leading agency brands which employ 44,000 employees. Through her office, the company is working to maximize professional development opportunities for women and people of color, to deploy world class education and training on diversity and inclusion management practices, and to better leverage relationships with diverse business partners and external organizations.

Prior to joining Interpublic Group, Heide was a senior vice president of the American Advertising Federation (AAF) and the founding Executive Director of The AAF Mosaic Center on Multiculturalism. During her tenure, Heide was responsible for the development and implementation of innovative programs to promote diversity and a more methodical, strategic approach to brand building among multicultural consumers. She also worked to build bridges across industry segments, uniting many of advertising's most influential leaders to create a groundbreaking set of paradigms for leveraging diversity, The Mosaic Principles . Heide also launched AAF's Most Promising Minority Students Program, which is an enduring major hiring pipeline for agencies, clients and media companies. She has been recognized as a facilitator of President Clinton's Executive Order that included a provision to encourage business opportunities for diverse companies and media in federal government advertising contracts.

In her past life, Heide's portfolio of experience spanned a variety of roles in marketing services, lobbying and community affairs for companies including Advo-System, Coca-Cola Enterprises -- the world's largest soft drink bottler, Colgate-Palmolive, Pepsi-Cola North America, NationsBank (now Bank of America) and others.

Heide received many honors during her career and was one of the first inductees for the Ebony Outstanding Women in Marketing and Communications award in 2000. She was also recognized by Working Mother Magazine as a mother of the year, in Mothers We Love of 2000 -- the same year J.K. Rowling was selected. Most recently she was recognized as a Woman of Distinction by the New York Council of Girl Scouts in 2006.

Many of Heide's most satisfying and educational experiences have come from service to others. She received great rewards from her contributions to the concept and launch for the nationally acclaimed non-for-profit athletic and educational organization, the Midnight Basketball League . Heide has worked with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and other organizations over the years and currently serves on the boards of the AAF Foundation, the Association of American Advertising Agencies Foundation and the New York Council of Girl Scouts.

Executive Vice President, Strategy and Network Operations

Stephen Gatfield is Executive Vice President, Strategy and Network Operations of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. Steve came to Interpublic in 2004 and in March 2006 was appointed Chief Executive Officer, Lowe Worldwide, where he leads the Global Management Team.

Gatfield is a strategist and innovator who understands where marketing communications is headed His in-depth knowledge of international markets, particularly in Asia, coupled with his proven ability to manage creative agencies and global networks makes him unique in the industry. In addition to spearheading the Lowe network, he works with Interpublic's management team to plan and implement a streamlined international operating structure for the holding company. Steve also played an integral role in creating MAP (Marketing Accountability Partnership), an Interpublic unit that enhances the company's focus on marketing accountability and ROI.

Prior to joining Interpublic in 2004, Gatfield was at Leo Burnett Worldwide where, since 2001, he had been Chief Operating Officer. He was widely lauded for leading the absorption of the former D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles into the international network of Publicis, which was accomplished with minimal client and talent attrition. During Gatfield's tenure as COO for all of Leo Burnett's international operations, the network was widely recognized with industry honors including Asia Pacific Network of the Year in 2002, IberoAmerica Network in 2003, Best Eastern European Network in 2003, as well as numerous agency of the year accolades. From 1997-2000, Gatfield was Regional Managing Director for the Asia Pacific region of Leo Burnett Worldwide.

Gatfield has also enjoyed considerable success establishing new models of doing business in the industry. He led Leo Burnett through two successful joint ventures with Dentsu: Beacon, a unique offering combining Leo Burnett, D'Arcy and Saatchi in Japan with a division of Dentsu as well as Orchard, a second Burnett agency in the vital Indian market, also developed jointly with Dentsu. In South Africa, Gatfield pioneered a radical empowerment business model with Lobedu Leo Burnett, which is now cited as one of the best examples of effective empowerment partnerships in South Africa.

A 20-year veteran of the industry, Gatfield spent nearly his entire career with the Burnett organization in the United States , United Kingdom and Asia. For three years in the mid-1980s, he served as a Planning Director for Saatchi & Saatchi London.

Senior Vice President, Leadership and Organizational Development

Frank Guglielmo is Senior Vice President, Leadership and Organizational Development of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies.

He has more than 15 years of experience leading efforts to build individual and organizational capabilities. Prior to joining Interpublic, Frank was Managing Director at Park Consulting focusing on leadership development, assessment and succession management. Frank has also been Director, Management and Organizational Development at Altria Corporate Services Inc. and Vice President, Branch Management Selection and Development at Prudential Securities. In both of these roles Frank was accountable for leading efforts in management selection and development, high potential development and succession management. He began his career as a Senior Consultant at Applied Research Corp., a consulting firm specializing in management assessment and development.

Frank holds both an MS and Ph.D. in organizational psychology. He has conducted training programs and organizational interventions in many countries in Europe and Latin America as well as the U.S. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Human Resource Management and the Metropolitan New York Association for Applied Psychology.

Senior Vice President, Corporate Services

Richard J. Haray is Senior Vice President, Corporate Services of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies.

Mr. Haray oversees real estate and insurance, which are vital to managing Interpublic's overall expense structure. He has played a key role in centralizing this function and getting Interpublic on a path that will lead to better service and significant cost savings. In October 2005, Haray took on the additional responsibility of corporate-wide procurement efforts, including travel.

From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Haray was a Vice President and Lease Counsel of Rockefeller Center Management Corporation. Prior to Rockefeller Group, he held positions at both Shearman and Sterling and Willke Farr & Gallagher as a Real Estate Associate.

Mr. Haray received his B.A. from St. John's University and his J.D. Degree from St. John's University School of Law.

Senior Vice President and Treasurer

Ellen T. Johnson is Senior Vice President and Treasurer of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. She assumed this position in September 2004. In this role, Johnson is charged with managing liquidity for the company, structuring the company's credit facilities, as well as overseeing its relationships with banks and rating agencies.

Johnson joined Interpublic in 2000 as Assistant Treasurer, International, and has held a variety of senior finance positions at the corporation, primarily in the Treasury Department. In May 2004 Johnson was appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of The Partnership, a division of Interpublic which includes Lowe Worldwide and Draft, where she oversaw all financial aspects of the agencies.

Prior to joining Interpublic, Johnson held various corporate finance roles at Revlon, ultimately as Assistant Treasurer, International. In that capacity, she had responsibility for all treasury functions in Europe. Johnson also played a key role in negotiating Revlon's credit facilities and in the financing and re-financing activities that helped re-capitalize the company in the late 1990's.

Preceding her work at Revlon, Johnson was a Senior Accountant at Coopers & Lybrand. She is a CPA who holds an Executive MBA in Finance from New York University 's Stern School of Business, and a Bachelor's Degree from the State University at Albany.

Senior Vice President, Managing Director

Peter Leinroth is Senior Vice President, Managing Director of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world’s leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. Peter works with large multinational clients -- who typically do business with many different IPG companies crossing capabilities and geographies -- to deliver overall IPG resources as effectively as possible for those clients.

With a background in both client management and agency operations, Peter has a proven track record of working with clients to build highly innovative business models in rapidly changing environments. Before he began his current role in 2008, Peter was the Chief Operating Officer and then Chief Client Officer at Lowe Worldwide, an IPG subsidiary, which he joined in 1995. While at Lowe, Peter worked closely with companies such as Johnson & Johnson, InBev and Nestle helping them build their brands within an evolving media landscape.  

Peter also has 10 years of experience as a senior account leader at J. Walter Thompson both in the U.S. and in Europe, where he worked with clients like Kellogg and Unilever. He started his career as an Account Executive at Grey Advertising in New York, working with Kraft. He received his BA and MA degrees from The University of Chicago.

Senior Vice President, Investor Relations

Jerry Leshne is Senior Vice President, Investor Relations of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies.

Mr. Leshne joined Interpublic in 2004 as Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis and Investor Relations. Prior to joining the company, Leshne was Head of Fixed Income Management of Rockefeller & Co., responsible for fixed income investment strategy, trading and client communication. Before Rockefeller, he was Vice President, Investor Relations, of Dow Jones & Company. Prior to joining Dow Jones, Leshne worked for Sears, Roebuck and Co. in a broad range of financial management responsibilities, including corporate finance, treasury, divisional CFO, and investor relations.

Mr. Leshne is a member of the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan, and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Executive Vice President, Emeritus

Barry Linsky is Executive Vice President, Emeritus of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. A 30-year veteran of Interpublic and its companies, Linsky currently serves in an "at large" capacity, working with management on a wide range of strategic initiatives. In his previous role as head of Interpublic’s Planning and Business Development group, his responsibilities included managing the parent company's planning process for its worldwide networks, working with the operating companies to develop synergies and share best practices and guiding client compensation negotiations. He also supervised Interpublic's Center for Marketing Intelligence, a marketing data retrieval and analysis unit that serves its agencies and clients.

Prior to joining the parent company, Linsky was Executive Vice President-Director of Account Management at Interpublic's Lowe and Partners (formerly the Marschalk Company); his responsibilities there included management (professionally and financially) of a number of the advertising agency's consumer products clients, including Braun, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson and Sterling Drug.

Linsky began his career in client-side marketing management, rising through positions of increasing responsibility with Lever Brothers Company, Bristol-Myers and Squibb Beech-Nut. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration.

He lives in New York City with his wife Jane, a retired editor for The New York Times.

Senior Vice President, Managing Director

Terry is Senior Vice President, Managing Director at Interpublic and reports to IPG’s Chairman/CEO.  Currently, Terry serves as IPG’s senior-most corporate executive overseeing the company’s relationship with CA (previously known as Computer Associates).  Terry leads a team of 11 IPG units that provide a fully integrated marketing communications offering to this global software company. In addition, Terry leads IPG’s thought-leadership/strategy  program called New Realities, which defines the major changes impacting today’s and tomorrow’s marketing world, and puts forward IPG’s point of view on how best to meet these new challenges via marketing communications.

Terry first joined IPG in early 2003, and served as SVP, Director of Corporate Services with responsibility for management of the company’s global real estate, procurement, travel, and marketing information services. In this capacity, Terry served on IPG’s Executive Committee and worked with the CEO and executive team on a range of corporate strategy issues.

Prior to joining Interpublic, Terry was Executive Vice President of Foote, Cone and Belding Worldwide, and a member of their Board.  His responsibilities included FCB global operations, and the leadership of some of their major accounts.

From 1998 to 2001, Terry was EVP, Director of Corporate Operations of True North Communications (which was acquired by Interpublic in 2001), where he was a member of the True North Management Board, with a direct reporting relationship to the Chairman/CEO.  Here, Terry created the company’s first-ever shared service group, as well as led its human resources, IT and real estate functions. Terry’s corporate responsibilities also included management of True North’s Corporate Communications Group, which helped shape public and Wall Street perceptions of the company.  He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of NASDAQ-listed Modem Media – a digital communications company owned in part by True North.

Prior to his corporate role, Terry worked for 22 years in various management roles at True North’s lead advertising agency – FCB.  His most recent position there was Worldwide Account Director on two of the agency’s global accounts -- Cadbury Schweppes and Kimberly-Clark.  Here he led the growth of these accounts to over 30 countries and served as one of the agency’s trailblazers in developing global marketing and communications programs.  Previously, he served in senior agency roles servicing such clients as Sunkist, A.G. Bayer, Sears, Walgreens and Miles Laboratories.

Employing his international and marketing background, Terry devotes some of his outside time to various governmental and non-governmental organizations working on international social development.  He has advised groups (including many linked to the U.S. Department of State’s Agency of International Development) on how best to use modern-day marketing principles to advance the acceptance of health practices in the developing world.  In this capacity, he also consulted on a major USAID assessment of their global social marketing programs.

Terry is co-author of two books on communications for social marketing, and serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Washington, DC-based Population Reference Bureau – a think tank on global population and development issues.

Terry received his BS from Northwestern University in 1974.  In 1976, he was awarded an MBA, with honors, from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business where he concentrated in marketing and finance.

Terry resides in Chicago with his wife Cindy, son Graham and daughter Lindsay.

Senior Vice President, IPG

President of GM Relationship

Martin Walsh joined the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG) in June 2009 as Senior Vice President of IPG and President of The Bridge,  a new role that oversees and coordinates the marketing services holding company’s efforts on behalf of General Motors.  In this new position, reporting directly to Interpublic Chairman and CEO Michael Roth, Mr. Walsh is responsible for aligning the efforts of the various IPG agencies that work on GM business, ensuring optimal allocation of IPG resources against key GM strategic priorities and providing the client with a central point of contact to ensure maximum effectiveness of all marketing activities.

The new model seeks to maximize the benefits IPG can deliver to GM.  Putting in place dedicated leadership that thinks about the GM business holistically and manages resource allocation centrally while also respecting the needs of GM’s multiple marketing groups and the strong existing bonds with outstanding AORs such as Campbell-Ewald, McCann-Erickson, Mullen and R*Works.

Prior to this role, Walsh most recently was General Manager for the HUMMER division of GM. He had been with the company for 33 years, beginning his career in Canada, where he rose through the sales and marketing ranks to ultimately lead national marketing. Subsequently, Walsh spent five years in Detroit as General Director of Marketing for the iconic Cadillac division. He was then asked to serve as Executive Director of Vehicle Sales and Marketing for GM Mexico, one of the company’s most important international markets. Prior to his position at HUMMER, which he’s held since 2006, Walsh spent three years as the Executive Director of Vehicle Sales, Service and Marketing Support for GM.

Martin received his BA and MBA degrees from the University of Western Ontario.  He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.

Senior Vice President, Business Development

David Weiss is Senior Vice President, Business Development of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies.

David joined Interpublic’s advertising agency, McCann-Erickson New York, in August 1986 as Group Account Director on the L’Oreal account. Four years later he took on worldwide responsibilities for Gillette. Later he added J&J and U.S. Airways to his responsibilities. In 1992, he assumed responsibility for a special three-year General Motors Corporate program.

In August of 1997, he joined the Interpublic Group as VP, Director of Planning and Business Development. Currently, as Senior Vice President Business Development he has a wide range of responsibilities. He developed and manages the company’s Client DataBank reporting and analytics platform, has management oversight of the Interpublic Center for Marketing Intelligence and developed and manages the company’s Organic Growth Initiative. He also heads Interpublic’s growth function that includes developing new models for Interpublic to bring its broad array of resources to clients, agency compensation planning and negotiation and utilizing company resources to support business development.

Prior to joining McCann, David was President of Ingalls Advertising in Boston, MA, from 1984 through 1986 when it was bought by Omnicom. Before joining Ingalls, he was at Ogilvy & Mather where his responsibilities included the General Foods, Publisher's Clearing House, Seagram & Sons and the Pepperidge Farm accounts.

Weiss was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He received both his BS and MBA at the Ohio State University. He is active in local political affairs and held the elected position of Village Trustee for 13 years. He has two grown daughters and currently lives on Long Island with his wife Beverly.