Fancy lunch with Jerry Della Femina, George Lois, and Allen Rosenshine at The Four Seasons?
FIRST-EVER AD CLUB ALL ACCESS AUCTION TO FEATURE BIGGEST NAMES IN AMERICAN ADVERTISING AND MARKETING FOR BID
— Unique, online auction provides up-close, personal access and cool “New York Experiences” to support club foundation —
NewYork – The ADVERTISING Club is announcing its first-time, onlineauction open to the industry that provides one-on-one access to some ofthe biggest names in advertising and marketing. The AD Club All AccessAuction will offer 29 exciting “New York experiences” with highprofile, star executives from the agency, media and corporate worlds tounderscore its mission of making connections, learning from the prosand “giving back.” Proceeds of the auction will go to the Club’sFoundation, which funds educational initiatives, scholarships andmentoring programs for students looking to enter the business.
The All Access Auction gives people the opportunity to gain access theywould not ordinarily have to top tier, successful executives – themovers and shakers who make an imprint in our business and lead some ofthe most prominent companies and organizations locally, nationally, andworldwide. The auction (and site) which launches live at the Club’sStars of Madison Avenue luncheon (kicking-off ADVERTISING Week) onMonday, September 27th will continue online throughout that week andconclude on Monday, October 4st (details available at www.theadvertisingclub.org on Sept 13th). The highest bidder will have a breakfast, lunch ordinner with their “prize” at a major NYC hot spot (all expenses paid)which, in some cases, will also include time at a ball game, artgallery, karaoke hall or the corridors of the executive’s company. Theopening bid for each is $500.
The fabulous, diverse array of talent and experiences include:
• a three martini, retro-inspired lunch at ’21” with Mad Man and MadWoman Bryan Batt of AMC’s “Mad Men” and Linda Kaplan Thaler, CEO/ChiefCreative Officer, The Kaplan Thaler Group
• a private meeting with HBO Co-President Richard Plepler and lunch at HBO
• Lunch with The Legends: a roundtable for multiple winners withindustry icons Jerry Della Femina (left), George Lois (top), and AllenRosenshine at The Four Seasons
• breakfast with New York restaurateur Danny Meyer at his latestMaialino in The Gramercy Park Hotel, a tour of the kitchen andautographed copy of his latest book
• lunch and kick-off at a Giants game at the new Meadowlands Stadium with Mike Stevens, CMO of The New York Giants
• afternoon tea at the private Core Club with Wenda Harris Millard, President & COO, MediaLink llc
• a West Village evening at Recette and the Village Vanguard with Microsoft researcher and influential designer Bill Buxton
• dinner with director Bob Giraldi at his Gigino Trattoria inTribeca and a two- week session of his Social Media & Advertisingclass at the School of Visual Arts
• partying in New York with Crispin, Porter + Bogusky partnersAndrew Keller, Jeff Benjamin and Rob Reilly at Rosa Mexicano followedby a night of karaoke.
Other executives in the line-up are Tim Armstrong, AOL; David Sable,Wunderman, with illusionist David Blaine; Michael Lebowitz, BigSpaceship; David Droga (left), Droga5; Susan Jurevics, Sony USA;Richard Beaven and Tim Spengler, Initiative Worldwide; Linda Sawyer,Deutsch Inc.; Stuart Elliott, The New York Times; Joe Abruzzese,Discovery Communications; Joanne Davis, Joanne Davis Consulting Inc.,with Dick Roth, Roth Associates; Bob Liodice, ANA; Judy Hu, GE, withJohn Osborn and Don Schneider, BBDO NY; Tom Carroll, TBWA Worldwide;Kim Kadlec, J&J; Mary Baglivo, Saatchi & Saatchi; Steve Stoute,Translation Advertising; Michael Kassan, MediaLink llc; Carol Bartz,Yahoo!; and David Jones, Havas Worldwide/Euro RSCG.
“In the business world, access, connections and ‘who you know’ isessential when careers are measurably shaped by effective networking.We’ve done auctions on a smaller scale in the past, but the All AccessAuction is the most extensive, ambitious and exciting one we’ve everconducted,” says Gina Grillo, President & CEO, The ADVERTISINGClub. “Time with these executives will be invaluable, memorable and alot of fun – we’ve arranged for some absolutely wonderful ‘offerings.’We hope that everyone takes advantage of this fundraiser as anopportunity to spend personal time with an industry star and help thenext generation of young people who are working hard to enter thebusiness.”
The Club thanks the All Access Event Committee for their support inmaking this program happen: Joanne Davis, Joanne Davis Consulting;Michael Duda, Consigliere.; Valerie Graves; Brad Jakeman, Activision;Jacki Kelley, UM; Alan Krinsky, Alan Krinsky Associates; Mari KimNovak, Microsoft Advertising; Ian Parmiter, Discovery Networks; LaurelRossi, Strategy Farm; and Jerry Shereshewsky, grownupmarketing.com
The ADVERTISING Club is the premier organization for all communicationsprofessionals in New York. The Club, founded in 1896, offers itsmembers a forum to exchange ideas, make connections and honorexcellence. The Club’s Foundation provides students numerouseducational outreach programs that give back to build a stronger andmore diverse advertising and marketing community. The Club is thefacilitating sponsor of the International ANDY Awards, whichacknowledge outstanding creative achievement around the world in thefield of advertising. Campaign Brief and Bestads are both global mediapartners of the ANDY Awards.