Join senior communications and marketing leaders from the American Cancer Society, Cox Automotive, UPS and more for an intimate lunchtime discussion on their path to the corner office. Come prepared with your questions on how they’ve managed their careers and what they’ve done to secure a communications seat at the business table.
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IABC Atlanta: Meet Your Mentor: Senior Level Round Table
April 24, 2018 @ 11:15 am - 1:00 pm
$48MEET YOUR MENTOR: SENIOR ROUND TABLE
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Meet Our Speakers
TODD WANDTKE
VICE PRESIDENT OF CUSTOMER COMMUNICATIONS AND DIGITAL MARKETING
Over his 20 year career with UPS, Todd has held a number of management positions within Marketing, Communications, Sales and UPS Consulting. Currently, Todd is the Vice President of Advertising, Customer Communications and Digital Marketing. In this role, Todd is responsible for all UPS customer-centric communications, advertising, sponsorships, direct marketing, UPS’s marketing technology stack and ups.com.
Most recently, Todd played a pivotal leadership role within the Global B-to-C Strategy team, contributing to the development of key strategies for UPS’s future success in this fast growing segment. His team focused on developing solutions to accelerate growth for merchants, improve consumer experiences and optimize profits for UPS.
Todd sits on the Nord Family Foundation Board and is a trustee of the Marketing Science Institute, a learning organization dedicated to bridging the gap between marketing science theory and business practice.
Todd holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Miami University, a Master’s in Business Administration from Clemson University and a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.
SHIRLEY POWELL/H4>
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, COMMUNICATIONS, COMMUNITY & INDUSTRY RELATIONS
Shirley Powell is senior vice president of communications, community and industry relations at Cox Automotive, a global automotive services and software company whose vision is to transform the way the world buys, sells and owns cars. Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of family-owned Cox Enterprises, Inc.
Based in the Cox Automotive corporate headquarters in Atlanta, Powell leads and manages the day-to-day operations of the company’s communications organization, which includes internal and executive communications, public relations, community and industry relations, and reputation and crisis management. She also oversees the company’s event management and creative services teams.
Powell joined Cox Automotive with more than 25 years of strategic communications experience. Previously, she served as the executive vice president and chief communications officer at The Weather Company where she oversaw all internal and external communications, executive communications, corporate brand/reputation, issues management, community relations and social media strategies for all of Weather’s consumer and business-to-business brands.
Prior to The Weather Company, Powell held a variety of senior level corporate communications roles at Turner Broadcasting System, NBC Entertainment and Disney/ABC.
She serves on the board of directors of Project Open Hand in Atlanta and on the board of visitors for Temple University’s School of Media & Communications. Previously, she served on the boards of The Atlanta Women’s Foundation, Leadership Atlanta, Women in Cable & Telecommunications, and Girls Inc.
Powell earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Temple University in Philadelphia and presented her with a Lew Klein in the Media Award in 2005, Women in Cable & Telecommunications Atlanta named Powell “Woman of the Year” in 2014.