Jamie Beauchamp
Jamie heads the agency’s West Coast office in Los Angeles where she oversees new business development, including marketing partnerships and strategic alliances. Quite a career move since her days in a costume serving as the University’s team mascot. Go Lions!
With over 10 years experience in account management, Jamie also takes an active role in supervising some of the agency's top-tier accounts. She has successfully developed and managed large-scale marketing and public relations campaigns for clients including Turner Networks, Grey Goose, Miller/Coors, Nestle Purina, Kashi, the NFL, Popchips, Pfizer, and Anheuser-Busch InBev to name just a few.
Yes, the rumor about Jamie launching a high-end/premium cat food brand along famed chef Rocco DiSpirito at the oh-so hoighty-toighty Aspen Food & Wine Festival is true.
Words to live by: “Tell me and I'll forget; Show me and I may remember; Involve me and I'll understand.” ~Confucius
Cara Gerhardt
Cara manages the daily operations for several of the agency’s largest accounts and oversees the entire account service team. Cara’s claim to fame at The Kerry Group: At some point in time, she has managed every program operating under the agency’s roof (including our 2009 Event Marketer Ex Award-winning “Instant Experts” retailer training program that visited over 3,000 retailers)!
Cara has worked on account service and strategic planning for over 7 years. After a boring gig in retail media buying, Cara made the move to The Kerry Group as a project manager in 2003. Since then, Cara’s client relationship talents and logistics management skills have become legendary.
Clients who have benefitted from Cara’s organizational expertise include AB/InBev, Ball Park Franks, Black Magic, HBO Films, Principal Financial Group, Quaker State, Rain-X, Sears, Shell Oil, and many others.
She knows more about lubricants than she will admit.
Words to live by: “I’m good because I am telepathic. I can hear people's thoughts.” ~ Sookie Stackhouse
Ronald Garnier
Our long-tenured “Professor of Interactive” brings over 25 years of management experience in delivering large-scale online training and education platforms for large corporations and universities in the North America, Europe and Asia.
The Kerry Group acquired Ron’s successful company in 2007, and now he leads our entire Interactive unit in the development of state-of-the-art, web-based, digital and e-learning solutions for our clients.
Ron has given the agency worldwide reach. The interactive team’s longstanding “Road To The Championship/Shell First” online sales incentive program is now being executed in South Africa and Canada.
Ron’s clients have included Cooper/Bussmann, EdwardJones, Eveready, Monsanto/Solutia, Nestle Purina, Scottsdale Securities, Shell Global, UniGroup and the University of Illinois.
Words to live by: “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” ~ Albert Einstein
Mike Campbell
Our right brain-oriented, creative type leads our team in creating memorable and business-building experiential marketing programs and events. As one of the “godfathers of event marketing,” Campbell has been called on to develop market share-increasing experiential marketing/brand activation solutions for some of the world’s largest companies. Using only half a brain, Campbell has still managed to create award-winning activations for AB/InBev, Boeing, Discovery Networks, Disney, HBO, NFL, Sara Lee, Time, Inc. and Turner Networks to name a bunch.
Campbell is the recipient of a slew of awards and honors, including much-coveted AMA Effie, CTAM Mark Award, Ex Award, ProAward and Telly awards.
Mike guides the agency’s own marketing and assists with its strategic direction – from color palette to proprietary events.
Mike has served in executive level roles with Javelin, Marketing Mix and Contemporary Productions during his 25+ years in the event biz.
Words to live by: “If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.” ~ David Ogilvy
Robert McCann
Bob McCann is well known for bringing rock and roll production mentality and its “show must go on” credo to experiential marketing.
Successful programs for clients like Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Nintendo and Shell Oil proved he was (and still is) a frontrunner in the industry.
Our well-traveled leader has managed such diverse events as a Rolling Stones tour of the U.S. and Europe and a visit by Pope John Paul II.
Experience includes a stint at World Sports Promotions, and eleven years as SVP with McCann-Erickson Event Marketing (Momentum).
As The Kerry Group’s CEO, he has led the effort to increase and reorganize the staff, increase fiscal strength (via key hires and acquisitions) and oversees the agency’s marketing outreach – all to position The Kerry Group as the premier brand activation agency.
Bob also believes in the 275-year old rock and roll touring mantra: “A place for everything, and everything in its place.” ~ Benjamin Franklin