Industry Visionary Award

Bringing over 30 years of industry experience in marketing, media, and communications, Marla joined the 4As (American Association of Advertising Agencies) in May 2017 as president and CEO to help define and shape the future focus for the association. Under her leadership, the 4As works to improve the health of the industry through the power of collective experience, expertise, and impact to help empower success for its members across business transformation and talent needs. Prior to joining MEC (now Wavemaker, part of WPP), where she was CEO of North America from 2011 through 2017, Marla spent 12 years at MediaVest (now Spark Foundry, part of Publicis)....

Industry Titan Award

Marisa Thalberg is the executive vice president, chief customer and marketing officer for Catalyst Brands, reporting to Marc Rosen, chief executive officer. Marisa is responsible for leading the marketing and creative direction for brands in the Catalyst Brands portfolio. Specifically, how they connect with current and prospective customers across marketing strategy, creative, visual merchandising, customer engagement (all paid, owned, and earned media), insights and analytics, CRM and loyalty, partnerships, external communications, as well as shared responsibility for pricing and credit strategy.

Marisa brings over three decades of experience leading...