Tom Collinger

Tom Collinger is the associate dean and Chair of the Integrated Marketing Communications program at Northwestern University, and a member of the faculty since 1998. He is a widely recognized expert in the areas of integrated marketing communications; direct, database and e-commerce marketing management; customer loyalty; customer-relationship management; and channel integration.

Collinger is also president of The TC Group, a marketing-strategy consulting firm. His clients have included: Advanta, A.G. Edwards, Discover Card, DoubleClick, Benesse Corp./Japan, Nimblefish, Sony and Walt Disney Attractions.

He has been an editorial advisory-board member for the Journal of Consumer Marketing; a former senior vice president of Leo Burnett Company; and former vice president and general manager of Ogilvy & Mather Direct. Collinger also serves on the board of directors of RC2 Corp, and a not-for-profit, The Cancer Wellness Center in Northbrook, Ill. He was an advisory-board member of Performics, Inc., a division of DoubleClick from 1999 to 2008.

Garry Marshall

Garry Marshall is a veteran producer, director, and writer of film, television, and theater. After graduating from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, he went on to create, write. and produce some of television's most beloved situation comedies, including Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, and The Odd Couple.

Marshall is passionate about live theater. His play, Shelves, was performed at the Pheasant Run Playhouse in St. Charles, Ill., and The Roast, which he co-wrote with Jerry Belson, ran at the Winter Garden Theater in New York City. In addition, he co-wrote Wrong Turn at Lungfish with Lowell Ganz, which he went on to direct in Los Angeles with Hector Elizondo, and in Chicago and off-Broadway with George C. Scott. At the request of Placido Domingo, he made his operatic directing debut at the Los Angeles Opera in 2005, with his own adaptation of Offenbach's The Grand Duchess, starring Frederica von Stade. In 2007, he joined the San Antonio Opera to direct Elixir of Love, which received rave reviews.

He has directed 16 movies. Among them are Pretty Woman, Beaches, Overboard, The Princess Diaries 1 and 2 and Runaway Bride. As an actor he's played many memorable roles, including Mr. Harvey in his sister Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own, and Irwin in his son's, Scott Marshall's, debut feature, Keeping Up With the Steins. In 1995, Marshall wrote his autobiography with his daughter, Lori, called Wake Me When It's Funny (Newmarket Press, 1997). And in 1997, with his daughter, Kathleen, he built a theater in Burbank, Calif., called the Falcon Theatre.

Wenda Harris Millard

Wenda Harris Millard is president of Media Link, LLC., working with the CEO and founder to manage the company’s divisions, secure new business relationships, and to act as senior advisor to Media Link’s various Representation and Advisory clients.

Previously Millard was Co-CEO and president of Media for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (NYSE: MSO). She had joined MSLO in July 2007 after three years as a member of its board of directors. Millard oversaw MSLO’s media businesses, which include publishing, internet, and broadcasting. She is credited with elevating the company to its No. 1 position in percent of revenue derived from digital advertising among all other "traditional" media companies.

Before joining MSLO, Millard was chief Sales officer at Yahoo! and prior to that chief internet officer at Ziff Davis Media and president of Ziff Davis Internet. Previously, Millard was a founding member of the executive team at DoubleClick, where she served as executive vice president responsible for establishing the DoubleClick brand and overseeing the operations of DoubleClick Media. She also served as president and group publisher of SRDS, senior vice president and publisher of Family Circle and executive vice president/group publisher of Adweek, Mediaweek, and Brandweek magazines.

Millard is chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau. She sits on the boards of the James Beard Foundation, PopTech, and Do Something. Millard also served two terms as a trustee of Trinity College in Hartford.

David Sable

David Sable brings his insatiable quest for originality, the power to see solutions and opportunities differently, and an astute grasp of what drives local consumers in a global marketplace to Grandparents.com. As COO of Wunderman’s since January 2006, Sable is charged with managing the world’s largest global marketing services network and overseeing its operational infrastructure to deliver service, excellence, and growth.

One of the advertising industry’s most innovative thinkers, Sable is a frequent speaker at industry events. As an entrepreneur, he was a founding partner and chief marketing officer of Genesis Direct, which was instrumental in helping the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and the National Football League develop innovative direct-to-fan, integrated internet, brick-and-mortar, event- and catalog-based sports-retail businesses across all marketing channels.

Sable was appointed by the Mayor of the City of New York, Michael Bloomberg, to serve as a member of the Cultural Advisory Committee of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. In April 2006, he was named chair of the Mail Industry Task Force for the United States Postal Service and a member of the Independent Mailing Industry CEO Task Force. He also serves as marketing advisor to a number of charitable organizations and universities.

Most important, Sable is grandfather to his first grandchild, Henry Aaron.

Matt Thornhill

After a 23-year career in advertising, Matt Thornhill has emerged as a leading national authority on Baby Boomers. His opinions and insights are sought by reporters for national media, including magazines like BusinessWeek and Money, newspapers such as the Washington Post and Minneapolis Star-Tribune, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and NBC Nightly News.

His background on the agency side with Ogilvy & Mather and Ted Bates in New York City, the Martin Agency in Richmond, Va., and running his own interactive agency in Atlanta during the dot-com boom, means that Thornhill understands both consumer behavior and trends.

Over the years, Thornhill has worked on brands, including Coca-Cola, Mercedes-Benz, AT&T, Kraft General Foods, Colgate, Marriott, Seiko, and others.

Lynn Wunderman

Lynn Wunderman has 30 years of direct marketing experience focused on strategic planning, database management, market analysis, and behavioral targeting. In her current consulting practice, she provides strategic marketing and analytic services to a variety of companies, including package-goods marketers, online media companies, traditional direct marketers, luxury marketers, advertising agencies, technology- and database-service organizations.

Through December 2005, Wunderman was president and CEO of I-Behavior, a database company serving the targeting needs of multichannel marketers. I-Behavior was first to capture SKU-level transactions, to provide attitudinal targeting, and to apply the co-op business model to Internet advertising through its aCerno division.

Previously she was founding partner of Wunderman, Sadh & Associates; President and COO of Marketing Information Technologies, Inc (now an Experian company); and SVP and director of Strategic Planning and Information Management at Ogilvy & Mather Direct. Clients included The Advertising Council, American Express, AOL, AT&T, IBM, Kraft, Lotus, Pantone, Perrier, Seagram, and Unilever.

Occasionally Wunderman gets trade tips from her famous father-in-law, Lester. She and her husband Marc reside in Hartsdale, N.Y., with their dog Fergus. Her favorite activities are yoga, Pilates and aerobic workouts, cycling, scouting for colonial antiques, golf, and cross-country skiing.

Bert Hayslip, Jr., Ph.D.

Bert Hayslip, Jr. received his doctorate in Experimental Developmental Psychology from the University of Akron in 1975. After teaching at Hood College in Frederick, Md., for three years, he joined the faculty of  the University of North Texas (UNT), where he is now Regents Professor of Psychology. Dr. Hayslip is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Gerontological Society of America, and The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, and has held research grants from the National Institute on Aging, The Hilgenfeld Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

His published research deals with cognitive processes in aging, interventions to enhance cognitive functioning in later life, personality-ability interrelationships, grandparents who raise their grandchildren, grief and bereavement, hospice care, death anxiety, and mental health and aging. He is coauthor of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Theoretical, Empirical, and Clinical Perspectives (Springer Publishing, 2000), Working with Custodial Grandparents (Springer Publishing, 2003), and Diversity among Custodial Grandparents (Springer Publishing, 2006). He is director of Undergraduate Instruction and chairs the doctoral program in Experimental Psychology at UNT.