Special Report: Media Mavens 2012

Media Mavens: Jane Olson, Oxygen Media

Media Mavens: Jane Olson, Oxygen Media

Ms. Olson's job is to draw to Oxygen young women who have more control than ever over when and where they consume the plethora of content available to them.

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Media Mavens: Ross Martin, Viacom Media Networks

Media Mavens: Ross Martin, Viacom Media Networks

In 2010 Mr. Martin founded Scratch, a unit that consults with brands about connecting with consumers.

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Media Mavens: Kelly Clark, CEO, Group M North America

Media Mavens: Kelly Clark, CEO, Group M North America

With his global leadership experience, Mr. Clark is in tune with the opportunities and challenges that exist in today's more complicated environment.

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Media Mavens: Annis Paschal Lyles, Coca-Cola North America

Media Mavens: Annis Paschal Lyles, Coca-Cola North America

During Ms. Lyles' tenure, she's imported and exported global best practices and worked to build marketing capabilities across the company through social-media and mobile summits and in-store media forums.

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Media Mavens: Deborah Marquardt, L'Oréal USA

Media Mavens: Deborah Marquardt, L'Oréal USA

Entertainment and content marketing have been part of Ms. Marquardt's professional life from day one, when she was a production assistant for Burt Reynolds on the ABC TV series "B.L. Stryker" for two years.

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Media Mavens: Jamie Egasti, Catalina Marketing

Media Mavens: Jamie Egasti, Catalina Marketing

In a 30-year Procter & Gamble Co. career, Mr. Egasti was best known as the driving force behind the fabric- and home-care innovation binge that saw the launch of Febreze and Swiffer. Now at Catalina, he looks to bring the same spirit of innovation to media.

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Media Mavens: Ilonka Laviz, Procter & Gamble

Media Mavens: Ilonka Laviz, Procter & Gamble

Ms. Laviz is working to help make digital central to the marketing of all P&G's 300 brands globally.

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Media Mavens: Amanda Richman, MediaVest

Media Mavens: Amanda Richman, MediaVest

Over the past decade, when a big brand did something innovative in digital, there was a good chance Mr. Richman's name was attached to it.

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Media Mavens: Sherrill Mane, Interactive Advertising Bureau

Media Mavens: Sherrill Mane, Interactive Advertising Bureau

Few "market research" executives are better prepared to try meshing online and TV-audience measurement than Ms. Mane.

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Media Mavens: Kurt Unkel, Vivaki Nerve Center

Media Mavens: Kurt Unkel, Vivaki Nerve Center

"We're here to make the agencies smarter and faster," Mr. Unkel says. "But we don't want to be the folks sitting front and center with clients taking all the credit."

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Media Mavens: Josh Chasin, ComScore

Media Mavens: Josh Chasin, ComScore

ComScore's chief research officer is working toward bringing TV measurement standards to the internet.

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Media Mavens: Dave Snyder, Firstborn

Media Mavens: Dave Snyder, Firstborn

A typical day in the life of Mr. Snyder could spark some envy. One day he might be directing Kate Upton as she rolls around a couch on a shoot for SoBe, and the next day he's coming up with a highly disruptive social-media idea for Uniqlo.

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Media Mavens: Seth Winter, NBC Sports Group

Media Mavens: Seth Winter, NBC Sports Group

Mr. Winter employs a mix of brashness and creativity in going after ad dollars from some of TV's most-desired live-sports properties, including the Olympics and Sunday Night Football.

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Media Mavens: Doug Ray, President, Carat U.S.

Media Mavens: Doug Ray, President, Carat U.S.

"I'm passionate about people, giving them the ability to grow and clear direction on where they're going to be in their careers years from now," Mr. Ray said.

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Media Mavens: Linda Boff, General Electric

Media Mavens: Linda Boff, General Electric

Ms. Boff is thinking about how to bring elements of the real-time strategy that fuels digital to TV, outdoor and even print, and making sure that all the elements of the marketing mix are connected.

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Media Mavens: Debra Berman, Kraft Foods Group

Media Mavens: Debra Berman, Kraft Foods Group

The head of Kraft's new standalone grocery brand has already overseen 55 new brand strategies at the company.

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Media Mavens: Michael Zimbalist, The New York Times Co.

Media Mavens: Michael Zimbalist, The New York Times Co.

Mr. Zimbalist is aiming not just to simply create new products, but to unearth new business models as well.

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Media Mavens: Michael Markarian, Humane Society

Media Mavens: Michael Markarian, Humane Society

Chief program-policy officer develops programs, communications and marketing strategies for the nonprofit.

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Media Mavens: Bill Brower, Geico

Media Mavens: Bill Brower, Geico

Director of media advertising built insurer's sports-marketing division from the ground up.

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Media Mavens: Jon Steinberg, BuzzFeed

Media Mavens: Jon Steinberg, BuzzFeed

Mr. Steinberg has hitched BuzzFeed's wagon to the idea of social advertising. But can a digital-media company build a big business exclusively on custom campaigns?

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