| Janelle James
Janelle James Vice President, Account Director Leo Burnett Worldwide www.leoburnett.com Janelle James is a Vice President, Account Director at Leo Burnett Worldwide, an advertising agency with 95 offices in 86 countries and over 8,000 employees. She currently serves as Account Director on the Procter & Gamble Always business in North America helping to drive the vision for how the agency services this client; leading the holistic brand building & communications process for Always initiatives; and managing, integrating, and coordinating all partner agency work. Directly prior to this role, Janelle was the Director of Global Marketing Innovation at Burnett. Working alongside the Global CMO, she was tasked with improving new business development practices and marketing the Leo Burnett brand. Her efforts mainly focused on leading global prospecting efforts in key industries and creating tools to improve business development processes. Some of her notable achievements in this role included facilitating 10+ telecoms wins in the sector in 2009 and creating the agency’s first industry summit to connect managers from across the globe and allow them to collaborate, share, and learn around a specific industry. Janelle started her career at Burnett as an Account Management summer intern in 1999 and since then has worked for the agency in four cities and two countries. She was the youngest expatriate at Burnett and left the US to work in Europe at age 23 spending almost 4 years of her Burnett career working in the Milan, Italy office. Her client assignments have included McDonald’s USA, McDonald’s Italy, P&G Feminine Care in EMEA, Samsung Global, and now P&G Always in North America. Janelle is a native of Brooklyn, NY, and has a B.A. from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She spends a great deal of her free time mentoring students and recent graduates about the advertising industry. www.leoburnett.com [ back ] |
