Gerardo Blumenkrantz
Professor, BIC Creative Track
In that time, Gerardo has won numerous awards including the Clio, ADDY and Effie; his work has been featured in Communication Arts and among Ad Age’s Best. Recently, Gerardo won the prestigious Maurice Sendak Fellowship for Creative Storytellers.
Gerardo continues to work as an independent creative director and consultant. In 2013 he was art director and creative director for a campaign designed by Ogilvy Indonesia for the UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) that is a finalist in a global awards competition for public service/social welfare ads sponsored by the London International Awards (LIA), a global ad awards program for advertising, digital, branded content, design, production, and music & sound.
BIC Quote: “By exposing every student to the best of NYC’s Creative, PR, and Strategic Planning, BIC is destined to raise a unique breed of A.D.D. busters.”
Seven helps clients develop dynamic, growth-oriented and measureable integrated marketing campaigns consisting of public relations, branding,emerging technologies, user experience research and market research, corporate social responsibility initiatives, internal communications, and crisis communication strategies. This interdisciplinary, culturally conscious narrative approach attracts clients across industries and sectors, including law, technology, healthcare, private equity, entertainment, and food and wine.
The firm is also involved with several pro bono projects, notably India-focused grass roots-level initiatives, and WEConnect International, a Washington D.C. based, corporate-led non-profit dedicated to women’s business enterprises.
Angela holds a Masters in International Affairs, Columbia University; a Masters in International Journalism, City University, UK; and a BA in Communications, Seton Hall University. She is a current board member with the Asian American Writer's Workshop, a NYC-based nonprofit literary arts organization founded in support of writers, literature and community.
She was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Zambia (UNZA), Africa, in 2013, where she continues work on a public relations campaign for the country as part of the Africa investment story.
Angela Chitkara
Assistant Professor, BIC Public Relations Track
Angela Chitkara is the Founder and CEO of Seven Corridors (Seven), formerly US India Corridor (USIC), a strategic level communications and business development consulting practice, serving international and bicoastal companies, from Silicon Alley to Silicon Valley.
Seven helps clients develop dynamic, growth-oriented and measureable integrated marketing campaigns consisting of public relations, branding,emerging technologies, user experience research and market research, corporate social responsibility initiatives, internal communications, and crisis communication strategies. This interdisciplinary, culturally conscious narrative approach attracts clients across industries and sectors, including law, technology, healthcare, private equity, entertainment, and food and wine.
The firm is also involved with several pro bono projects, notably India-focused grass roots-level initiatives, and WEConnect International, a Washington D.C. based, corporate-led non-profit dedicated to women’s business enterprises.
Angela holds a Masters in International Affairs, Columbia University; a Masters in International Journalism, City University, UK; and a BA in Communications, Seton Hall University. She is a current board member with the Asian American Writer's Workshop, a NYC-based nonprofit literary arts organization founded in support of writers, literature and community.
She was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Zambia (UNZA), Africa, in 2013, where she continues work on a public relations campaign for the country as part of the Africa investment story.
Douglas Davis
Adjunct Professor
Principal, The Davis Group LLC
Since 1999 Douglas Davis has been a Freelance Art & Creative Director specializing in multi-channel solutions. Douglas began his interactive advertising career as a digital designer for various media properties and agencies including CondeNet, ESSENCE Magazine, JWT/Brouillard, Tribal DDB, Deutsch, Greater Than One and G2 Direct & Digital. While Associate Creative Director at JWT/Brouillard, he was responsible for founding and co-directing the company's Interactive division. In 2011 Douglas founded The Davis Group LLC and continues to offer strategic solutions to client branding, digital and design problems.
Douglas holds a B.A. in Graphic Design from Hampton University, an M.S. in Communications Design from Pratt Institute and a M.S. in Integrated Marketing from New York University. Douglas has been an Adjunct Professor in the Integrated Marketing Department at New York University and is currently Associate Professor of Advertising and Graphic Design within the City University of New York.
In addition to client work and giving back in the classroom, Douglas was appointed to serve on the advisory board for New York City's High School for Innovation in Advertising and Media (IAM). His advertising and academic experience aided him in authoring the 4-year curriculum for the only public advertising high school in the country.
Clients Served: Campbell's, Aetna, Magic Johnson Enterprises, Liberty Mutual, Aveeno, HSBC, Constant Contact, Ruby Tuesday, Deutche Asset Management, DWS Scudder, Scholastic, Genentech, Essence & Essence.com, Epicurious.com, Style.com, Concierge.com, Brides.com, The ACE Group, Illy, Subway, RREEF, Bounty, Chrysler, Entertainment Benefits Group, Perka, Council for Economic Education, Brooklyn Watercolor Society and The Economist.
Adjunct Professor
Founder and Chief Catalyst, LivingWorks Ventures
Scott was the co-founder of Elias Arts, which for over 25 years and from offices throughout the U.S. and Europe, was a worldwide industry leader in audio for corporate and network identity systems and advertising as well as a record producer for Duran Duran, Grace Jones, Gutterboy, Patti Scialfa, and Yes.
Elias Arts was awarded over 750 awards for 7,500 commercial projects -- including two Emmy's and dozens of Clios, London Internationals and Cannes Lions. Elias Arts initiated large-scale use of audio as a means to give voice to brands -- Adidas, Apple, Budweiser, Coke, Columbia, eBay, eTrade, Exxon, Nike, Universal, Verizon, Visa, Yahoo -- to name just a few.
Since 2011, Scott has headed up LivingWorks Ventures, a venture firm focused on seeding and sustaining the growth of "designed for love" companies, brands, and products. LivingWorks helps companies design, develop, and deliver the most reliable and effective paths to sustainable profits by aligning the organization, creating market coherence, focusing opportunity, and reducing distraction.
When, says Scott, does a brand or company succeed? When it becomes a company that people love. Sounds good.
Belle Frank
Adjunct Professor
Executive Vice President, Director of Strategy & Research, Y&R
In her years with Y&R, Belle has had many gigs. She was part of the team that developed Y&R's BrandAsset® Valuator (BAV) model. Belle co-authored several pieces for Admap, including "Reinventing Qualitative Research" and "Brand Strategies for an Economic Downturn" and is working on a book about advertising talent for the new world. She received a 2007 AWNY, Trailblazing Working Mother of the Year award and has lectured at conferences, at Tufts and NYU as well as Wharton and Columbia business schools.
Belle is a self-professed "quant-wannabe" who tweets and teaches professional development for the City College of New York Media and Communication Arts program. Belle has a BA in French from Tufts University and holds a Master's from Harvard in Education, in human psychological development and the effects of communication.
Michael Gregorek
Adjunct Professor
Attorney
Adjunct Professor
Attorney
Michael has a Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Michael has worn many hats: he is a practicing attorney, a small claims arbitrator, a real estate broker, a registered tax professional, a notary public, a guardian, a court evaluator, a referee, and a retired administrative law judge.
Michael has worn many hats: he is a practicing attorney, a small claims arbitrator, a real estate broker, a registered tax professional, a notary public, a guardian, a court evaluator, a referee, and a retired administrative law judge.
Turning his attention to education, he taught law students trial techniques. Then for another decade and a half, he taught college students philosophy, history, and political science; and, more pertinently, he taught communication students ethics and law at several colleges. He is delighted to be joining BIC teaching Leadership, Ethics and Legal Issues.
Michael was the founder and chief advisor of Great American Mentoring, a college organization, whose students won umpteen awards, including best new organization, best organization, the Martin Luther King, Jr. award, outstanding international student, outstanding student leader and more. He is also the founder and executive director of Gregorek & Associates on Madison Avenue, which began as an experiential learning course and continued as an organization for student-led research. He served as the Director of Professional Enrichment, revamping the dean’s program (School of Management, NYIT) into another student-run organization with countless more accolades for the students.
Michael has been fortunate throughout a couple decades of teaching to have been acknowledged for outstanding achievements in adjunct teaching (by NYIT), for exemplary supervision of experiential education (also from NYIT), and for outstanding service to the students of the CCNY community.
Adjunct Professor
Social Media and Digital Marketing Strategist
Zontee has worked as a brand and digital marketing consultant as well as having served as a spokesperson for national media for her clients. She currently works with Convince & Convert, a new-format marketing communications services company -- social and content accelerators -- that has worked with leading national brands, including Wal-Mart, BMC Software, Caterpillar, Columbia Sportswear, Petco, and many others.
Zontee holds an M.S. in Strategic Communications from Columbia University.
Jeremy Jacob
Adjunct Professor
Partner, jacobstahl, inc.
Jeremy Jacob is a 30-year veteran of the communications industry. He has established a reputation in corporate, healthcare, consumer and global branding. At various large PR agencies, he held senior management positions in which he was responsible for building and running international networks and directing PR for high profile global accounts such as Absolut Vodka, Nike, General Motors, Western Union and various Procter & Gamble brands.
In 2003, he founded jacobstahl, inc., with his partner Sandra Stahl. jacobstahl is a full service public relations firm where he has worked for clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to start ups. Regardless of the size of the company or the scope of the assignment, Jeremy is constantly looking for creative solutions to address client needs.
Jeremy was born in London, educated in England and the USA and has lived in India and Switzerland. He holds a BA in History and Philosophy from NYU. When he's not working or on the road taking his kids to soccer games, he sleeps.
Ellen W. Oppenheim
Adjunct Professor
Founder, Oppenheim Media Consulting
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Ellen Oppenheim works at the forefront of the media evolution, helping media, ad tech, and advertising companies surface and implement solutions that generate new revenue and strengthen customer relationships. Her projects focus on bringing original insights that spur revenue growth, encourage organizational change, and improve communications with key audiences and stakeholders.Before founding Oppenheim Media Consulting in 2010, Ellen had served as Chief Marketing Officer for the Magazine Publishers of America for a decade. During that period, magazines' share of the ad market increased 1.9 share points(to the value of $1.38 billion). She pioneered magazines' exploration of opportunities to increase revenue from their digital offerings and explored the many ways print magazines could combine their assets with new digital platforms.
Previous to Ellen's work with the Magazine Publishers of America, she had held senior positions in global ad agencies (FCB, Y&R) and with media departments of global corporations (American Express Publishing Company, Time Magazine).
Ellen is a Member of the Advertising Women of New York Foundation Board and Executive Achievements Committee. She has judged Mediapost's Creative Media Awards and Digital Out-of-home Awards and has published in AdAge, eMarketer, and Mediapost.
Ellen is the Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Children's Board at Columbia, and a Member of the Board at the Babies Heart Fund. She is a graduate in Journalism of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Kate Rothen
Partner, SS+K
According to Kate's official SS+K bio, Kate sought refuge from a traditional PR career and found a home at SS+K. She has helped clients tackle challenges ranging from fighting TV censorship to empowering female entrepreneurs to getting Americans to reconsider the electric car. She has engineered engagement strategies for clients including Chevrolet, Kraft, Audi, and Westin Hotels. She has served as SS+K's first Director of Social Media and as Executive Director of the agency account management team. In 2011, the Impact Center named Kate as one of twelve Women's Leadership Institute Fellows.
Dee Salomon
Dee Salomon is Chief Marketing Officer at the strategic advisory firm MediaLink where her experience in brand marketing, digital media sales and business development has been put to use by Fortune 100's, global media companies and technology start-ups.
Prior to MediaLink, Dee spent six years with Condé Nast’s digital group as SVP, Sales and Marketing, where she ran the digital media sales group, responsible for the revenue of 26 websites including Style.com, Epicurious.com, NewYorker.com, Glamour.com, and VanityFair.com.
Prior to Condé Nast, Salomon held high-level marketing positions across the fashion/retail industry including SVP of Creative Services and Advertising at Donna Karan International. She also contributed to the successful re-launch of Anne Klein as SVP of Marketing and Corporate Communications, resulting in the sale of the company to Jones New York. Salomon began her career in investment banking, working for both Hambrecht and Quist in San Francisco and Ladenburg Thalmann in New York.
Sandra Stahl
Adjunct Professor
Partner, jacobstahl, inc.
Prior to City College, Nancy taught advertising to potential art directors, copywriters, and design managers at Parsons School of Design where she was twice the recipient of the Henry Wolf Award for Teaching Excellence.
As an active creative director and writer here in New York City, Nancy’s travelled from Toronto to Tokyo working on projects as diverse as the Globe and Mail, Foster’s Ale and Yamagataya Nori (seaweed). She's held many agency positions including a seat on Dentsu's New York Board of Directors while also Creative Director of Canon, Shiseido, JVC, Noritake and other accounts. Among her numerous industry awards, Nancy has two TV commercials in the permanent collection of advertising at the Museum of Modern Art. Check out YouTube to see the first commercial Nancy ever produced: a Christmas spot for Folgers that ran every December for nearly twenty years. Her recent book, Ad Critique, is a landmark textbook that teaches both the “creatives” and the “suits” how to effectively critique creativity in advertising.
She has a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master’s in Media Studies from The New School for Social Research.
As Nancy sees it: “BIC isn’t just about creating nimble thinkers for an ever-evolving world; it’s about re-imagining the industry.”
Adjunct Professor
Chief Marketing Officer, MediaLink
Prior to MediaLink, Dee spent six years with Condé Nast’s digital group as SVP, Sales and Marketing, where she ran the digital media sales group, responsible for the revenue of 26 websites including Style.com, Epicurious.com, NewYorker.com, Glamour.com, and VanityFair.com.
Prior to Condé Nast, Salomon held high-level marketing positions across the fashion/retail industry including SVP of Creative Services and Advertising at Donna Karan International. She also contributed to the successful re-launch of Anne Klein as SVP of Marketing and Corporate Communications, resulting in the sale of the company to Jones New York. Salomon began her career in investment banking, working for both Hambrecht and Quist in San Francisco and Ladenburg Thalmann in New York.
Sandra Stahl
Adjunct Professor
Partner, jacobstahl, inc.
Sandra Stahl specializes in corporate and public health communications programs primarily in the healthcare sector. She has deep experience building and managing communications and alliance teams as well as brand advisory boards, defining best practices and creating memorable brand communications programs.
In the last few years, she has focused on developing fully integrated efforts to help clients differentiate their brands with maximum impact across their businesses.
Sandra and her partner, Jeremy Jacob, founded jacobstahl in 2003. Their agency is a full-service firm working primarily in the health sector, both Rx and OTC, and with corporate health and well-being campaigns.
Previous to creating jacobstahl, Sandra held senior U.S. and global positions on the agency and corporate sides. She served as the VP of Marketing Communications at CDx Laboratories, and before that served over 15 years, concluding her service as Executive Vice President of the Healthcare Practice at Ruder Finn Public Relations.
Sandra is an active member of several non-profit boards and committees. She has had articles published in the Journal of the American Dental Association, Pharmaceutical Executive and the New Farm. She has also authored over 20 articles on communications strategy, issues, and stakeholder connectivity in business, communications, and pharmaceutical industry publications. Sandra received her B.A. degree in Political Science and Sociology from CUNY, Queens College.
Nancy R. Tag
Professor
Program Director of BIC
Program Director of BIC
As an active creative director and writer here in New York City, Nancy’s travelled from Toronto to Tokyo working on projects as diverse as the Globe and Mail, Foster’s Ale and Yamagataya Nori (seaweed). She's held many agency positions including a seat on Dentsu's New York Board of Directors while also Creative Director of Canon, Shiseido, JVC, Noritake and other accounts. Among her numerous industry awards, Nancy has two TV commercials in the permanent collection of advertising at the Museum of Modern Art. Check out YouTube to see the first commercial Nancy ever produced: a Christmas spot for Folgers that ran every December for nearly twenty years. Her recent book, Ad Critique, is a landmark textbook that teaches both the “creatives” and the “suits” how to effectively critique creativity in advertising.
She has a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master’s in Media Studies from The New School for Social Research.
As Nancy sees it: “BIC isn’t just about creating nimble thinkers for an ever-evolving world; it’s about re-imagining the industry.”
Andrew Tider
Adjunct Professor
Entrepreneur & Creative Director
Entrepreneur & Creative Director
Andy’s worked with the best and brightest in the advertising world at places like BBH, Wieden+Kennedy, EVB, Razorfish, @Radical, BBDO, SS+K, TAXI, 360i and others.
He’s “fooled” judges at various ad industry awards shows (ONE Show, FWA, etc.) into giving his work high praise and has also bribed journalists from Forbes, WIRED, BusinessWeek, The New York Times and Poughkeepsie Cheese Monthly into writing about said work.
His passion is pushing boundaries, for himself and brands. His belief is that getting complacent is the root of failure and that you can never re-invent yourself too many times. His favorite clients are those who want to be frightened and inspired in equal measure.
In the past few years he’s taken his own advice and re-invented himself a few times. First as a stuffed toy designer and manufacturer: Sanchez & Friends is the line of plush toys he created (now sold at UrbanOutfitters). More recently, (2010) he turned himself into a triathlete (training for and compete in Triathlons regularly) and went in a new direction as
Co-Founder of the tech startup Munchly, a mobile service that enables fans in stadiums to buy hot dogs and beer via their smart phone, and have it delivered to their seat.
When not working on an entrepreneurial project, he occasionally still freelances as a Creative/Art Director for agencies in NY and on the west coast.
His passion is pushing boundaries, for himself and brands. His belief is that getting complacent is the root of failure and that you can never re-invent yourself too many times. His favorite clients are those who want to be frightened and inspired in equal measure.
In the past few years he’s taken his own advice and re-invented himself a few times. First as a stuffed toy designer and manufacturer: Sanchez & Friends is the line of plush toys he created (now sold at UrbanOutfitters). More recently, (2010) he turned himself into a triathlete (training for and compete in Triathlons regularly) and went in a new direction as
Co-Founder of the tech startup Munchly, a mobile service that enables fans in stadiums to buy hot dogs and beer via their smart phone, and have it delivered to their seat.
When not working on an entrepreneurial project, he occasionally still freelances as a Creative/Art Director for agencies in NY and on the west coast.
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