AAF ANNOUNCES NEWEST MEMBERS TO ITS 2025-26 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

WASHINGTON, March 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Advertising Federation (AAF), the "Unifying Voice for Advertising," announced the newest members to its 2025-26 Board of Directors.  Members were voted on by the AAF Executive Committee at the association's Spring Board of Directors Meeting held yesterday in Washington, DC.

The new members include:

• Evan Adlman, EVP Commercial Sales & Revenue Operations, AMC Networks
• Caroline Clayton, SVP Communications and Chief Marketing Officer, American Airlines
• Tim Natividad, GM, US Head of Enterprise Sales, TikTok
• Andrea Kerr Redniss, Managing Director, MediaLink & Partner at UTA
• Aaron Sobol, Head of NA Media Investment and Data Governance, Unilever

They join a Board which already includes:

Jack Bamberger, Chair

Jacki Kelley, Vice Chair, IPG

Andy Narrai, Treasurer, Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.

Laurel Rossi, Assistant Treasurer, Infillion

Brandon Cooke, Secretary, FCB

John Boiler, Assistant Secretary, Constellation Group

Helen Lin, Immediate Past Chair, Publicis Groupe

Marcus Harper, Corporate Committee Chair, The Trade Desk

Ross Martin, Corporate Committee, Vice Chair (East), Known

Soche Picard, Corporate Committee, Vice Chair (Central), Arc North America

Ernest Meadows III, Mosaic Council Chair

Sheila Marmon, Digital Media Committee Chair, Mirror Digital

Carla Michelotti, Government Affairs Chair, Carla R Michelotti, LLC

Jeff Sheets, National Education Executive Council Chair, Brigham Young University

David Campbell, American Advertising Awards Chair, Chernoff Newman

Stephanie Price, Council of Governors Chair, Historic Hotels of America

Megan Telencio, Eastern Region Chair, Lamar Advertising

Shannon Steffke, Central Region Chair, Woods, Fuller, Shultz & Smith

Christal Gammill, Western Region Chair, Team One

Steve Pacheco, President & CEO, American Advertising Federation

"The AAF continues to attract and retain the best volunteer leadership team in advertising," said Steve Pacheco, President & CEO, AAF.  "We have added five new Board Members who share our desire to improve the advertising industry. This diverse and experienced group of acknowledged and respected leaders and visionaries will help steer the AAF through the next few years while we face lots of changes and upheaval within the advertising industry."

Also announced were AAF's newest Corporate Partners:

• American Airlines
• PayPal
• Spectrum Reach
• Travelers

They join existing Corporate Partners including (in non-alphabetical order):

fluent360 

BBDO

Spotify

Ally Financial  

NHL 

Meta

Partners + Napier

Elite Media

P&G

Paramount

The Walt Disney Company

The Room  

Indeed

Omnicom

Google

RPA

Mondelez

OMD, USA

LinkedIn

Havas

Michael Kassan LLC

MediaLink

SXM Media

The Coca-Cola Company

Ogilvy

Clear Channel Outdoors America

Tik Tok

Crowd Here

The Martin Agency

Amazon Advertising

TMA

NCM

FCB

AT&T

Walton Issacson

GroupM

Canvas Worldwide

The new members will assume their roles effective the start of the AAF Fiscal Year, beginning July 1, 2025.

ABOUT AAF

The AAF's Board of Directors guides and oversees the Federation's signature events and initiatives, including the Advertising Hall of Fame, Advertising Hall of Achievement, American Advertising Awards, Advertising Day on the Hill, Most Promising Multicultural Students Program, and HBCUs for Advertising  – all serving the Federation's 35,000+ professional members nationwide, 4,000+ students and educators, and more than 60+ corporate members spanning media and tech companies, advertisers and agencies. Established in 1905, the American Advertising Federation (AAF), acts as "The Unifying Voice for Advertising." Visit https://aaf.org/.

SOURCE American Advertising Federation