Meet The Fellows: Ran Wei

  Ran Wei is a storyteller passionate about bringing uncommon people onto common ground.  She is a strategic and data-driven performance and brand marketer at Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures, where she accelerates growth for venture-backed products and delivers 360 go-to-market plans to launch into new and emerging markets. Prior to BCG, Ran was on…

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Meet The Fellows: Lauren Busch

  Over the course of her career, Lauren has been fortunate to experience many of the transformations affecting the media industry first-hand. Because of her unique ability to recognize value and opportunity amidst major change, she has enjoyed success across brand building, marketing, and media. Lauren currently works on the Global Media team at BlackRock,…

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Meet The Fellows: Sylvia Knight

  Sylvia is currently a Partner of Integrated Planning at J3/Universal McCann in New York, NY. In her current role, she is responsible for the cross platform media strategy for the Janssen Immunology therapeutic areas, overseeing the planning of consumer campaigns which includes channels from TV and OOH to social and programmatic media. After graduating…

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Meet The Fellows: Amelia Tran

  Named “Top 30 Women in Digital you Should be Following” in 2019, Amelia Tran is a Digital Marketer collaborating with startups and global companies overseeing social media & digital strategies, senior stakeholder communications for Tech, CPG, Oil & Energy Fortune 500 brands. She is also a Part-Time Adjunct Professor at Baruch College and previously…

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Meet The Fellows: Chelsea St. Clair

  Chelsea St. Clair has spent the entirety of her career thus far pushing to be in strategic roles that work to flex her critical thinking and curious nature. After graduating from the University of Kentucky (and her third agency internship) Chelsea moved to Boston to start her career as a Brand Strategist at Arnold…

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Soon There Will No Such Thing As An Advertising Career Without A Technical Background; SmartyAds on Talent

Ivan Guzenko, CEO, SmartyAds As agencies have faced recent financial hardships due to the current climate, how do you think they can make hiring new talent a priority? The pandemic has given us an important lesson — one should constantly review and shift their business strategies and tactics in order to adapt to the ever-changing…

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Talking Talent with Pinterest

From Yolanda Lam, Global Head of Agency & Ads Partners, Pinterest As agencies have faced recent financial hardships due to the current climate, how do you think they can make hiring new talent a priority? As an ex-agency executive myself, I believe whether agencies are going through successful or less successful periods, there needs to…

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