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click above to see photos and comments from the Chicago Roadshow
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4:00 - 4:30pm
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Meet and Greet
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4:30 - 6:30pm
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Content/Showcase
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6:30 - 8:30pm
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Cocktails/Networking
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8:30pm
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Conference Closes
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dennis Ryan
Chief Creative Officer
Element 79 Partners
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Element 79 Partners was founded on unprecedented mutual client/agency-loyalty with a generous
helping of individual entrepreneurial spirit. Dennis Ryan embodies the latter, bringing a wealth
of imagination and creative firepower to the existing relationships with Founding Clients
PepsiCo and the Quaker Oats Company. He views his role as fostering the agency brand's growth
by servicing those charter accounts in a manner that creates a blueprint for future client
partners across a number of categories.
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Dennis has enjoyed a steady climb up the creative ladder at such agencies as Needham, Harper and Steers and
J. Walter Thompson Chicago. He honed his craft working with some of the best known brands in the world
including Budweiser, Rold Gold, Frito Lay, Discover Card, Miller Brewing, Kraft, Nestle, Nabisco and
Blockbuster. His enormous enthusiasm for his work is contagious and he has a knack for enhancing ideas with
his sharp eye and experienced ear.
Dennis graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1984 with, he notes, "not one but two highly
unsaleable majors in Art and English." He was thrilled to discover that advertising offered an alternative
to "manning phone lines during local PBS telethons."
A disarming sense of humor combined with an unmatched dedication to client business objectives has long been
the cornerstone of his career. He was, in fact, Needham's youngest Group Creative Director in its history
and joined JWT Chicago in 1997 as its Executive Creative Director. He later assumed responsibilities as the
North American Regional Creative Director, charged further with overseeing the agency's Worldwide Creative
Council.
In his four years at Thompson, he led the successful pitch for Kraft's sprawling Brand Equity campaign,
besting their other six roster agencies. The agency's pro bono work for the Partnership For A Drug-Free
America stands as that organization's strongest recent work and, importantly, he reorganized the department
using today's technology with innovations like the JWT Digital Pre-Pro, which uses the internet to store and
share production information.
He has been married to Maureen since graduating from college, and with two daughters Zoe and Grace, maintains
off-the-job interests in travel, dogs and "good water pressure."
JONAH BLOOM
Executive Editor
Advertising Age
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Jonah Bloom is the executive editor of Advertising Age, the world's leading marketing and media
publication. In that role he oversees the day-to-day editorial operations of the weekly
publication, which reaches more than 300,000 readers, as well as helping to manage AdAge.com and
Madison + Vine.
Jonah joined Advertising Age in September 2002 from PRWeek magazine, a national weekly based in
New York reporting on corporate communication, branding and public affairs.
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He helped to launch PRWeek in 1998 as news editor and went on to becomeeditor-in-chief.
He also has considerable experience reporting on the media industry in Europe having founded and been the
editor of Campaign Media Business, a national weekly covering planning, buying and selling of media in the
UK.
Jonah's other roles have included being magazines editor on journalist's weekly Press Gazette, being a news
reporter on VNU's Accountancy Age and being a reporter on weekly print and packaging journal PrintWeek. Last
year Jonah edited the Harper Collins' book Top Companies in Marketing & Media. His stories have been
published in several national dailies in the UK including The Financial Times and The Guardian.
JOSEPH JAFFE
President & Founder
jaffe, L.L.C.
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One of the most sought-after consultants, speakers and thought leaders on interactive marketing
and media, Joseph Jaffe is President and founder of jaffe, L.L.C.
- a "New Marketing" consulting practice that works with both the buy and sell sides, offering a suite of
strategic and creative services, agency relations consulting and training.
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Prior to consulting, Joseph was Director of Interactive Media at TBWA\Chiat\Day and OMD USA, where he worked on
clients including Kmart, ABSOLUT Vodka, Embassy Suites and Samsonite.
Joseph brings with him a diverse mix of both client and agency experience, on both the traditional and
Interactive sides of the business. He is a regular contributor on iMediaconnection.com and his weekly
"Jaffe Juice"
column is a favorite read within the industry. Jaffe's first book, "How to Fix Marketing" is due in Q4 of 2004.
Jaffe is a founding faculty member of iMediaLearning, and has also lectured part-time at NYU's Stern
School of Business, Cornell's Johnson School of Business and Syracuse University.
Hailing from South Africa, Joseph lives with his wife and two children in Westport, Connecticut.
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