Great Minds

EP331: Heidi Dangelmaier, Founder of Girl Approved

Heidi Dangelmaier is an inventor + designer + scientist (Quantum Physics & Artificial Intelligence). She has a track record of inventing first to market mass-appeal products, technology, entertainment & brands. Her gift at activating mass-scale growth in the female market is peerless. She’s generated billions in revenues for many global brands. She’s the most recognized leader at the frontiers of Market Growth X Gender X Design.

EP330: Bob Hope, Chairman & Co-Founder, Hope-Beckham-Espinosa

Robert E. (Bob) Hope is a veteran of the public relations and event marketing business. He is co-owner and president of Hope-Beckham, an independent agency based in Atlanta.
Hope and longtime friend Paul Beckham started Hope-Beckham 25 years ago.
Clients have included Chick-fil-A Foundation, Turner Broadcasting, Belk, The Coca-Cola Company, Southern Company, Home Depot, Comcast and a variety of sports teams and leagues as well as non-profit organizations.
He is author of two books – “We Could Have Finished Last Without You” about his early days with the Braves, and “Greater Late than Never” about people who achieved their life’s success after age 50.
Will Rogers once said there are two kinds of people on earth – those who march in the parade and those who sit on the curb and watch. If you march, you have only one view your entire life. However, if you sit on the right curb, you see marvelous things.
Bob Hope has spent his life on a marvelous curb observing remarkable people and events. He started working for the Atlanta Braves while in college and became the team’s director of public relations and promotions at age 24. He managed the Major League Baseball All-Star Game at age 25. And he was with Hank Aaron during the chase to break the all-time home run record of Babe Ruth.
When Ted Turner bought the team, he was promoted to vice president at age 29 and worked not only for the Braves but also the Turner-owned Atlanta Hawks and for Turner’s TV station, handling marketing for the Braves and the TV station.
He left Turner to work on sports, particularly the Olympics, for The Coca-Cola Company and then decided to go into the public relations agency business so he could work for both Coke and Turner, which led to a career in New York in a top job of the world’s largest public relations firm.
Along the way, he has been involved in many Olympics, including Atlanta. He helped several cities with their campaigns to land major league sports franchises – Charlotte in the NBA, Miami, Denver and Washington in Major League Baseball, Ottawa in hockey, and Atlanta in the WNBA.
He also attempted to open the doors to girls and women as baseball players, creating the Colorado Silver Bullets professional baseball team of elite women athletes, which traveled the world for four years playing against men’s amateur, college and minor league professional teams. The team was managed by former Braves star pitcher Phil Niekro. His involvement with the Silver Bullets led to a 14-year stint on the board of Billie Jean King’s Women’s Sports Foundation and six years as the only male on its executive committee. The WSF is the chief lobbying organization in favor of equal education opportunities, including sports, for women in colleges and universities.

EP329: Alexander Igelsböck, CEO at Adverity

With 20 years of tech experience, and after witnessing the explosion of marketing data and its potential to inform business decisions, Alexander saw a clear gap in the market that he was determined to fill. This led to the founding of Adverity, an intelligent marketing analytics platform, which he co-founded with colleagues Martin Brunthaler and Andreas Glänzer in 2015.

EP328: Rob Prazmark Returns

Rob Prazmark, Founder and CEO of 21 Marketing, returns to Great Minds to discuss his book The Olympics Don’t Take American Express and more!

EP327: Andrew Essex, Senior Managing Partner, TCS Interactive

On today’s episode of Great Minds we’re pleased to welcome Andrew Essex, Senior Managing Partner of TCS Interactive, working with companies all over the world. Andrew discusses his career path from Droga5 to Tribeca to present.

EP326: Scott Donaton, CMO, Versus

Scott Donaton, CMO of Versus and longtime friend of Advertising Week joins us for this special episode of Great Minds. Scott discusses his roles at IPG, Digitas, Hulu and more, leading up to his current role at Versus.

EP325: Chris Slade, Drummer

On today’s episode of Great Minds, we’re pleased to welcome Chris Slade, drummer for several of rock’s greatest bands, including Manfred Mann’s Earth Band from its inception in 1971 to 1978 on eight albums, The Firm, and AC/DC,  for which he drummed from 1989 to 1994 and performed on the 1990 album The Razors Edge.

EP324: Yaniv Makover, CEO & Co-Founder of Anyword

On this episode of Great Minds, we’re pleased to welcome Yaniv Makover, CEO & Co-Founder of Anyword. Yaniv is an entrepreneur, with vast experience in numerous fields, dating back to his beginnings at Nokia, to his time at his company Keewee, to the present at Anyword.

EP323: Gayle Troberman, Chief Marketing Officer, iHeart Media

iHeart Media’s CMO Gayle Troberman joins Great Minds to discuss her career – from her days at Microsoft to present.

EP322: Josh Gross, Chief Creative Officer at Energy BBDO

On today’s episode of Great Minds, we’re pleased to welcome Josh Gross, Chief Creative Officer at Energy BBDO. Josh walks us through his incredible and unique career, from his days at powerhouse agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky to his present role at Energy BBDO.