WITZIG Group, Ltd.
The Search Source for Advertising and Marketing Communications
Our People
We are proud to have a staff of recruiters who understand advertising and marketing communications: people whose experiences help them relate to the environment in which you work and the functions of the positions you must fill. Count on these professionals to work with you toward your goals as one of your own staff members. Those listed as consultants work on a part-time basis around their teaching and other occupations. Please keep our owner, Pam Witzig, posted on your experiences with them. We have consistently earned feedback from candidates as well as clients about our professionalism and responsiveness. Integrity and sound ethics are important to us. It has been a critical component of our history and we do not intend to stray from that.
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Pamela Witzig,
Pam accidentally discovered a love of recruiting early in her otherwise sales career. From there, she simply took it toward her bent for creative and appreciation for advertising and marketing communications. Pam has a passion for finding the pieces to fill in a puzzle; a great base for recruiting and matching. It's why her group hunts rather than gathers (job seekers). Her only frustration is that annoying little 24 hour day that limits the possibilities of how much can be covered in a mere seven day week. Though founder of Witzig Group (in 1986 as Witzig & Associates), she is not one to be a mere figurehead. Pam enjoys rolling up her sleeves to do the work and is very much a hands-on recruiter. She loves art deco, ballroom dancing, family, entertaining, a bold “red,” and all the challenges her clients can bring.
Pam
works most of the PR and Corporate searches and keeps a
hand in all agency disciplines as well. |
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George
Tenne,
George is longtime veteran of the creative community in markets like New York, Detroit, St. Louis and Chicago with major agencies including NW Ayer, DMB&B, and BBDO. He began his career as an art director moving up the ranks to become SVP Group Creative Director at DMB&B, St. Louis and even had a stint with them in Australia. In 2004 he created the 10eGroup in St. Louis and Chicago as a creative recruiting resource. During his career he won more than 80 national awards including Clio, CA and Art Director Magazine awards, NY Festival and ADDYs. He has also served on boards of industry organizations and chaired and judged local and national advertising competitions including the Clio, Andy, national and regional ADDY shows, Obie Awards, Communication Arts magazine & The NY Festivals. He was active in the St. Louis Ad Club as a Board Member and headed the ADDY show for seven years. George also guest lectured at Washington and Webster Universities and at Columbia College and College of DuPage. He consulted in portfolio reviews at Kansas University as well as Portfolio Center and the AdCenter at VCU. He taught Advertising at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn as well.
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Colleen Fahey, Consultant Great Generalist; Works all industry disciplines
Collen Fahey is SVP Marketing at Star Farm Productions, a Chicago based entertainment company that creates global properties for kids, tweens and teens. Previously she was Executive Creative Director at Frankel/ARC and ran a $12 Million business unit and had executive responsibility for Human Resources. As the agency grew and grew she hired hundreds of creatives and account people and developed a tool called the "Career Map." After Frankel's acquisition by Publicis Groupe, Colleen held a global role at Publicis Worldwide traveling across five continents to work with agencies and clients on retail, promotional and kids marketing strategies. She is convivial in four languages and loves to hear how people's careers are progressing. |
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Marion Black-Ruffin, Consultant Digital and Account Management
Applying and understanding emerging technologies have always been the primary pursuits for Marion Black-Ruffin. Marion was awarded the coveted “Product Introduction of the Year” award by PC Magazine after joining NEC Home Electronics in 1981 where she was Manager of Corporate Marketing Communications for seven years. She then joined FCB (now DraftFCB) where she was VP Account Director for seven years responsible for clients such as Citibank, Coca Cola, Kraft and Illinois Bureau of Tourism. Marion followed that in 1996 with a few years at Frankel (now known as Arc Worldwide) as Director of Digital Marketing. She was responsible Internet based marketing strategy for Cars.com, Target.com, McDonald’s, Frito Lay, Oldsmobile and US Postal Service. She managed online advertising and promotions for these clients and many more. Next was Mypoints.com where she led a team of key account managers and product marketing managers to expand the penetration of their private label product on the MyPoints.com loyalty platform. She then joined United Airlines as a member of the direct marketing team to cost effective market to the Mileage Plus member base and the united.com new customer base. Marion developed the email-marketing program at United Airlines and converted email marketing to a revenue-generating program. Next Marion joined Orbitz.com as Director of product Marketing, Cross-Site Initiatives. She was responsible for making sure that the customer experience was the same across all online marketing channels. Most recently, Marion was Director of Marketing Services for ShopLocal.com where she directed the strategy for direct marketing, public relations, creative, promotions, print and online advertising. Marion applies her previous experience of hiring creative, web development, marketing and account service managers for the interactive market to Witzig Group, Ltd. She concentrates her efforts on the interactive marketing segment. |
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Contact any of our recruiters or support staff at any time. We are at your service.
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Heather Shriver
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(309) 664-7405
p.witzig@witzig.com