Kathleen Brookbanks — Chief Operating Officer of Hearts & Science at Omnicom Media Group

Ms. Kathleen Brookbanks serves as Chief Operating Officer of Hearts & Science at Omnicom Media Group. Ms. Brookbanks has been Chief Operating Officer for OMD US at OMD Worldwide Group since January 2014. She serves as Chief of U.S. Human Resources of Omnicom Media Group Holdings Inc. She served as Managing Director of Organizational Development - Omnicom Media Group at Optimum Media Direction Inc., and OMD Worldwide Group since 2007. She focuses on two key areas for Media Group: the acquisition and development of talent throughout the agency globally and the ongoing examination of how effectively Media Group is being run. Ms. Brookbanks first joined OMD in 2002 when she ran OMD Midwest as Managing Director, overseeing the Chicago, Dallas and Minneapolis offices. There she took on the challenge of unifying what was previously four media departments from four difference agencies, all with strong cultures. She had management responsibilities for some of OMD's biggest accounts, including McDonald's, State Farm, Dell, JCPenney and Gatorade/Quaker. Her success has been recognized by the industry through her selection as one of Advertising Age's Women to Watch.