|
Barry Linsky is Executive Vice President, Emeritus of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. A 30-year veteran of Interpublic and its companies, Linsky currently serves in an "at large" capacity, working with management on a wide range of strategic initiatives. In his previous role as head of Interpublic’s Planning and Business Development group, his responsibilities included managing the parent company's planning process for its worldwide networks, working with the operating companies to develop synergies and share best practices and guiding client compensation negotiations. He also supervised Interpublic's Center for Marketing Intelligence, a marketing data retrieval and analysis unit that serves its agencies and clients.
Prior to joining the parent company, Linsky was Executive Vice President-Director of Account Management at Interpublic's Lowe and Partners (formerly the Marschalk Company); his responsibilities there included management (professionally and financially) of a number of the advertising agency's consumer products clients, including Braun, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson and Sterling Drug.
Linsky began his career in client-side marketing management, rising through positions of increasing responsibility with Lever Brothers Company, Bristol-Myers and Squibb Beech-Nut. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration.
He lives in New York City with his wife Jane, a retired editor for The New York Times.
| 