Hot Ad (Wo)Man Of The Day

Please meet Austin McKenna.

Agency: Brand Director, Converse and Umbro at Anomaly

Recent Work: Account Director at StrawberryFrog

Little Known Fact: He directed a film called Barbecue Is A Noun.

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Meet Faris Yakob

Agency: EVP, chief technology strategist at McCann.

Recent Work: Digital ninja type stuff at Naked.

Little Known Fact: He used to be a writer for Maxim magazine.

Quote: '"Consumers" own brands - even when they aren't consuming. But yes - it does. If they don't care, or we can't give them reasons to care, then they will simply stop engaging with us. The industry seems obsessed by engagement at the moment - building / offering brand engagement. But from a person, or communities, point of view - why should they engage with brands unless there is some value in the engagement? And if we're delivering value, they will care."'

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Meet Noah Brier.

Agency: Head of Strategic Planning, Barbarian Group

Recent Work: The fab Brand Tags.

Little Known Fact: He owns 80 domains.

Quote: "I really like thinking, writing and talking about the internet, culture, media and technology (especially where they all converge) and not one of those "I really love what I do sort of ways" (I don't even know what that means, actually)."

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Meet Megan Langel.

Agency: Bulldog Drummond

Key Work: Nike, PepsiCo, PinkBerry, FDA, and (our fav lubricant) WD40.

Little Known Fact: She um, 'lives to scale mountains and ice fields...'

Source Quote: "She's hot...."

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Meet Ruby Pseudo.

Agency: Runs Ruby Pseudo Consulting with 450+ global kids

Key work: Xbox Halo 3 campaign

Recent work: Iris International Global Youth Study

Little known fact: She has the words from the Rothschild coat of arms tattooed on her, because it was written on a house she lived in as a kid. It reads: Concordia, Integrita, Industria.

Quote: Lifted from Winston Churchill - "If you're going through hell, keep going."

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Meet Neisha Tweed.

Agency: Copywriter, Ogilvy & Mather

Key Work: Bank Of America

Little Known Fact: She's a published poet.

Quote: "I believe that almost any dispute can be settled by best 2 out 3 in Rock, Paper, Scissors."

She's got a point.

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Meet James Widegren.

Agency: Creative Director/partner at Your Majesty

Key Work: HBO Voyeur (while he was at Big Spaceship)

Recent Work: Yahoo!

Little Known Fact: He runs visual information project NEW- synthesis.

Quote: When asked to define creativity, James said: "Simply - one who displays productive originality."

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Meet Ron Wessels.

Agency: Recently promoted to Creative Director, Avenue A/Razorfish, Philadelphia

Key Work: AAA and P&G

Little Known Fact: He's from Little Rock.

Quote: "Well, it seems almost everyone in the Philly ad scene is a Philly native. I'm not. I didn't even go to Penn State. But I have learned what a Wawa is. And if I ate meat, I could weigh in on the great debate. I now consider here home. So here I am."

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Meet Janine Byrne.

Agency: Designer, W+K Portland

Recent Work: Nike.

Little Known Fact: Janine, a transplant from Amsterdam, is really good at Bingo.

Quote: "Three things that have blown my mind since coming the U.S.:
I. Complete strangers asking me how I am.
II. Supermarket staff being helpful and having any kind of clue about the produce they are selling. A direct contrast to Dutch Supermarkets.
III. America's obsession with food, hygiene and insurance of every conceivable kind."

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Meet Nicola Mendelsohn.

Agency: Chairman, Karmarama

Key Work: Deputy Chairman of Grey London

Little Known Facts (for Americans anyway): She is the wife of the beleaguered Labour party's chief fundraiser Jon Mendelsohn and has four children.

Quote: "I have always wanted to run my own agency and now that I have found the right partners, it all feels very right. I would be disappointed if in a year's time we are not on bigger pitches than Coke and Nintendo."

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