Big In Print
Women to Watch 2007
Michelle Gass
June 01, 2007
As senior VP-chief merchant, global product for Starbucks Corp., Michelle Gass presides over the worldwide product and development teams for 250 products and most of the company's revenue. It's a massive challenge as the chain works to rein in the commoditization famously outlined in a recent company memo from Chairman Howard Schultz.
Tamara Ingram
June 01, 2007
A billion dollars. If you can put a price tag on what a job is worth to a company, affix that amount to Tamara Ingram's title. Last January, WPP Group named Ms. Ingram president of its Team P&G, with responsibility for $1 billion in business across 40 agencies.
Wendy Clark
June 01, 2007
There's no question that Wendy Clark is, on the basis of measured-media spending, near the top of any list of the most important women in marketing. As senior exec VP-advertising, her hand was behind the morphing of a regional telephone brand into a new version of one of the world's most iconic brands.
Jacqueline Hernández
June 01, 2007
To say Jacqueline Hernández is the most successful publisher in Hispanic media would be an understatement. That's because publisher hardly captures the essence of what she does best. "Brand builder" is actually a more suitable title.
Alice Li
June 01, 2007
As China prepares to host the Summer Olympics next year, Alice Li is leading Lenovo Group's strategy to create a global brand through the Games.
Coleen Kuehn
June 01, 2007
As head of MPG North America's strategy group, the media agency's in-house think tank, Coleen Kuehn is pretty much the rudder that keeps a fast-moving boat on course.
Ann Mukherjee
June 01, 2007
When you talk about ideas with Frito-Lay's Ann Mukherjee, you want to -- do something. Run a mile, meet a deadline ... learn Russian. That happens when you meet inspiring people.
Michelle Bottomley
June 01, 2007
Data, strategy and debate top the list of favorite things for Ogilvy's Michelle Bottomley. She co-heads the New York office of Ogilvy and runs new-business pitches. With the added title of general manager for OgilvyOne Consulting U.S., she oversees an 80-person unit that serves clients including American Express Co., Allstate Corp. and Aflac.
Carole Walker
June 01, 2007
"Full-contact" communications is Carole Walker's mission. Since being promoted to marketing services director last January at Masterfoods USA, Ms. Walker, 48, has been hard at work inspiring collaboration between agency partners.
Katie Bayne
June 01, 2007
Among the charges for Katie Bayne, Coca-Cola North America's newly installed chief marketing officer, is to help make 120-year-old Coca-Cola Co. a more nimble marketer.
Julie Mulholland
June 01, 2007
Hollywood's clout on Madison Avenue first became apparent to Julie Mulholland while she was working on the Coca-Cola Co. account at McCann Erickson Worldwide. The year was 1991, and Hollywood talent shop Creative Artists Agency jolted the ad industry by winning a big chunk of Coke work.
Tiffany R. Warren
June 01, 2007
A "diversity Pollyanna." That's what Tiffany R. Warren calls herself. Ms. Warren, 32, was among the first 25 students to be recognized as an American Advertising Federation Most Promising Minority Student in 1997. Today, she's one of the creators of the AAF MPMS Alumni Rising Star Award.
Laura Lang
June 01, 2007
"This has been the most exciting year," says Laura Lang. It's little wonder that the CEO of Digitas USA is smiling. Last December, Digitas was acquired by Publicis Groupe for $1.3 billion. Since then, the digital-marketing agency has snapped up business wins in several major product categories.
Mary O'Keefe
June 01, 2007
Many of the skills Mary O'Keefe gained during her previous career in social work -- including one stint as a suicide prevention counselor -- still come in handy.
Julie Rieger
June 01, 2007
Julie Rieger would be the first to tell you that perhaps out-driving your boss and his boss -- while barefoot -- on the golf course may not be a surefire way to climb the corporate ladder. However, continually growing ZenithOptimedia's share of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s global media business doesn't hurt.
Deanna Brown
June 01, 2007
Deanna Brown joined Scripps Networks just a few months ago to help grow its web business. However, one might ask how much help Scripps needs.
Linda Yaccarino
June 01, 2007
If TNT and TBS seem exceptionally brand-friendly, it's no coincidence. Linda Yaccarino has something to do with it.
Carole Irgang
June 01, 2007
The challenges at Kraft Foods aren't so much weighing heavily as weighing optimistically for Carole Irgang, who in January joined the package-goods behemoth as senior VP-integrated marketing communications. "There is so much energy at Kraft right now behind the new growth strategy, and a real openness and willingness to embrace new thinking and move quickly toward trying new things," says Ms. Irgang, 43.
Laura Klauberg
June 01, 2007
To see how media are changing, Laura Klauberg, who oversees Unilever's media efforts across the Western Hemisphere, need look no further than home.
Elizabeth Ross
June 01, 2007
Since joining Tribal DDB in 2004, Liz Ross has been credited with saving the Clorox Co. interactive business, growing office revenue fivefold and helping it land on the San Francisco Business Times' recent list of best places to work.
