Account Planning Mentoring Program Established for Grad Students

For all those interested in a career in Account Planning and have completed or are completing the Account Planning Sequence a mentoring program has been established. Selected graduate students will have the unique opportunity to pair up with an advertising professional who is currently working or has worked as an account planner. The professional has agreed to serve as a mentor and will help you understand the business world realities of being a planner, develop a solid and engaging portfolio and from time to time offer an alternative point of view not always available in an academic environment. Here are some of the professionals that have agreed to act as mentors:

Christie Abshire, Manager, Planning, Publicis, Dallas

Jason Tarantino, Planning Director, R/GA, NY

Ed Cantu, Director, Account Planning, Latin Works, Austin

Baldwin Cheng, Director, Account Planning, Hal Riney, San Francisco

Eliza Esquivel, Senior Account Planner, Wieden Kennedy Amsterdam

Chad Hazen, Director, Planning TracyLocke,Dallas

Mick McCabe, Director, Planning Leo Burnett, Chicago

Shannon Moorman, Manager, Recruitment RG/A, NYC

Kate Niederhoffer, Senior Research Analyst, Nielsen Buzzmetrics, NYC

Dan Windel, Senior Planner, GSD&M, Austin

If you are interested in participating in the mentor program please contact Professor Neal Burns by email at: nburns@mail.utexas.edu.

2/14/2007