About the Authors -
[Cached Version]
Last Visited: 7/19/2007
Co-author, Alice K. Sylvester is Sr. Vice President, Account Planning Director at Foote Cone and Belding and a former chair of the Advertising Research Foundation in New York.
...
Alice K. Sylvester is a veteran American ad agency researcher who is Vice President, Foote, Cone and Belding., in Chicago.She has worked for various ad agencies including Y&R, Leo Burnett , J. Walter Thompson and Tatham-Laird & Kudner (now Euro Tatham RSCG).
She is a past Chairman of the Board of the Advertising Research Foundation and on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Advertising Research.M/s Sylvester has a diverse inter-disciplinary background in media research and account planning as well as brand research.A winner of the Thompson Innovation Award for a new approach to planning, "Sales Effective Media Planning and Budgeting", she has also judged the American Marketing Association's EFFIE Competition for advertising that produces marketplace results.
Over the years, M/s Sylvester has consulted to many of the U.S.A.'s largest advertisers.She is widely published and a frequent speaker on advertising at U.S.A. and global conferences.She now specializes in brand health, advertising budgeting and marketplace effects.