Scott Knox
President & CEO
Recently ranked No.10 in Campaign Canada’s Hard Power List, a list of the most powerful people in Canadian advertising and marketing, Scott is also a member of the Canadian Advertising, Marketing & PR Hall of Fame.
He joined the Institute of Canadian Agencies (ICA) as President & CEO in 2016. Prior to this he was Managing Director of the Marketing Agencies Association (MAA) in the UK for 15 years.
As well as being listed in Campaign UK's "A-List", he was featured in the Daily Telegraph's Out @ Work Top 50 as No.23 of the most powerful LGBTQ+ leaders in British business.
In 2015 he became the Founding President of the world's first LGBTQ+ group for Advertising and Marketing when he launched PrideAM.
Scott is a board director of AdStandards and the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada as well as a member of 3 committees for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce; DEI, The Digital Economy and Economics & Taxation.
For the ICA he launched initiatives such as IDEA (Inclusivity, Diversity & Equity in Advertising), PRIME (Purpose & Responsibility in Media Economics), and Effie Awards Canada.
Scott is a founding director of the international agency association VoxComm, which the ICA founded alongside the US’s 4A’s, the UK’s IPA and Europe’s EACA. There are now over 40 countries in membership.
Scott graduated from Kent University in the UK with a degree in History. He also held the full-time elected post for Representative of the National Union of Students. He is married to TV baker, Gavan (aka Crumbs in My Beard) and is the proud father of two adopted children.
Leah Power
EVP, Agency Growth
A finance and operations leader with more than 20 years of agency-side experience, Leah works with agency leaders across the country to strengthen commercial performance, build healthier client relationships and support sustainable growth across the sector.
She has advised executive teams on business transformation, profitability, pricing, scope and contract negotiations, acquisitions, operating systems, talent initiatives and operational best practices. Since joining the ICA in 2017, she has led and supported a range of programs focused on helping Canadian agencies amplify their value, improve business performance and navigate a changing marketing landscape.
Leah’s agency experience includes her role as Chief Operating Officer at Grey Canada and Grey San Francisco, where she helped the executive team deliver year-over-year revenue and profit growth, support award-winning creative and effectiveness work, and lead the integration of a Montréal agency acquisition. Her earlier financial leadership roles included DDB Canada, Downtown Partners, Echo Advertising and Rapp Collins Worldwide.
At the ICA, Leah has spearheaded agency growth, transformation and talent initiatives including executive advisory groups, account leadership training, business benchmarking, agency search guidance, future talent programming and Effie Awards Canada. She also contributes regularly to industry thought leadership, including ProcureCon Marketing, Report on Marketing and the 20%: The Marketing Procurement Podcast.
Madison Papple
Head of Communications & Operations
Madison is an operations and communications professional who brings nearly 15 years of experience working at one of Canada’s top advertising agencies, john st. There she followed her passionate curiosity, holding progressive roles in almost every agency department across strategy, account service, production, operations, HR, new business, and even serving as a chief of staff to the agency’s CEO.
A true Swiss Army Knife, Madison is a versatile leader who runs towards problems that need solving and processes that need defining through a communications lens. She believes the devil is in the details, work should be fun, and you should always get dessert. She often wonders if her parents naming her after Madison Avenue has anything to do with her love of advertising.
Paul Tedesco
Head of Effectivenesss
Paul has over 25 years of experience in building some of Canada's leading CRM, digital, data, and analytics agencies most recently Omnicom’s TrackDDB. With a focus on guiding customers through their journey to engagement and conversion, Paul leverages his extensive expertise in data-driven marketing and sales enablement. He has worked across both B2B and B2C sectors on high-profile accounts including VW, Samsung, Kraft, ScotiaBank, and McDonald's. As the ICA’s Head of Effectiveness, Paul is the Chair of the Marketing Effectiveness Council. He is an Industry Professor at the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University where he teaches Marketing, Value Creation and Analytics as part of its MBA and EMBA programs, serving as an advisor to the McMaster Digital Transformation Research Centre.
Natalie is a communication designer and art director specializing in branding, web design, and print, with additional experience in motion design. She's interested in UI/UX and evolving products, and the ways in which we can continue to make design accessible for everyone. She strives to provide effective, valuable insight from a design-centred point of view through all steps of the design process, from initial research to project reflection. She believes that by being empathetic and flexible communicators (both verbally and visually), we can create long-lasting relationships through design.
To see more work, go to www.nataliekilimnik.com
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