Advertising Executive

City Government Shakeup
City URA Executive Director Pat Ford is part of Mayor Ravenstahl's inner circle and has held a variety of top posts. His wife Alicia Sirk is the mayor's press secretary. They say their friendship with the Lamar advertising executive ...

Why Funny Caveman Insurance Ads Are A Disgrace
Insurance company advertising seems to involve lots of jokes these days. Obviously, some advertising executive has convinced the insurance companies that they can increase their profits [44 billion in 2006] and market share by having ...

Meebo Brings Warner Executive to Land Fortune 500 Ad Deals
Carter Brokaw is the newest executive team member for Meebo, and he will be acting as the Chief Revenue Officer, in charge of sales, advertising sales and monetization strategies. Hailing from Warner Music Group, where Brokaw was a part ...

Advertising Marketing Exec (Carrollton)
Advertising Marketing Executive (Carrollton). Leading provider of direct marketing services requires experienced account executives. Responsible for growing client base through exceptional customer service, dynamic idea input and ...

Despite lawsuits and gift allegations, Lamar moving ahead on billboard
Despite legal challenges and new revelations that URA Director Pat Ford and his wife -- Alecia Sirk, the mayor's newly former press secretary -- received gifts from a Lamar Advertising executive, the company said Thursday it's going ...

Bram of PghComet blog on KDKA Radio
Bram R, blogger, broke the story in April of 2008 about the director of the URA and his gifts from the Lamar Advertising executive, a pal. Hear the story in an interview with Kevin Miller of KDKA Radio. Aired in the afternoon of April ...

That Shotgun Shine (shame about it...)
... report that press secretary Alecia Sirk and her husband, Urban Redevelopment Authority Director Pat Ford, accepted a surround-sound system, neckties, cigars and other gifts from Lamar Advertising executive Jim Vlasach. ...

State ethics board probing gifts between ad exec, city official
PITTSBURGH - The State Ethics Commission is investigating gifts given to the Pittsburgh mayor's press secretary and her husband by an advertising executive who brokered a deal for a downtown electronic billboard.

Billboard ad exec gave gifts to Pittsburgh officials
PITTSBURGH - The mayor's press secretary resigned and her husband, the city's top development official, asked for a temporary leave of absence Wednesday after disclosing they received gifts from an advertising executive who brokered a ...

College Presidents Urge Elimination of Alcohol Advertising on NCAA ...
In a letter to NCAA President Myles Brand, the presidents urged the NCAA's Division I Board of Directors and Executive Committee to formally review its policies on alcohol advertising, which were last examined in 2005. ...