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Edward Vick
Born
Edward H Vick

(1944-02-27) February 27, 1944 (age 80)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Northwestern University
Political partyRepublican Party
SpouseStephanie Kugelman(2010–present)
Children2 sons
1 daughter

Edward H. Vick (born February 27, 1944) is a former US naval officer, businessman, American author and a volunteer advocate worker for veterans' causes. He served two tours of duty during the Vietnam War[1] and received two Bronze Star Medals with Combat "V", the Combat Action Ribbon, the Presidential Unit Citation and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. His business career was spent in the marketing communications business, including most recently, the chairmanship of Young & Rubicam Advertising and its parent, Young & Rubicam Inc. Vick has also been active in veterans' causes and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Vietnam Veterans of America for his volunteer work.[2]

Early life and education

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A native of Philadelphia, Vick attended Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northwestern University, Illinois, with Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees.[3] He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at UNC.

Military service

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A Naval officer prior to commencing his business career, Vick served two tours of duty in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. His first in 1967 was as a Division Officer aboard the ammunition ship USS Mauna Loa (AE-8) off the coast of Vietnam. In 1968 Vick volunteered to return to Vietnam with the Navy's River Patrol Force.[4] Serving with several different River Divisions at the height of the war in 1969, he led over 100 combat missions throughout Vietnam's Mekong Delta and along the Cambodian border. He was awarded Bronze Star Medals with Combat "V", the Combat Action Ribbon, the Presidential Unit Citation and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and other decorations. In 2003, he published the historical novel Slingshot[5] based on his experiences during the war.[6][7] Thomas Corey, past president of Vietnam Veterans of America called the book, "A graphic and compelling picture of Vietnam's warriors. A picture that today, more than ever, people need to understand and appreciate."

Career

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After service, Vick worked in the marketing communications business for 30 years, spending nearly half of that in Chairman, CEO or COO positions. Vick began his career with Benton & Bowles, was a senior vice president of Ogilvy & Mather, then president and chief operating officer of Ammirati & Puris and president and CEO of Levine, Huntley, Vick and Beaver. From 1992 to 1994, he was president and CEO of Landor, the San Francisco-based worldwide identity consultancy and design firm. He held one or more of these top roles at Ammirati & Puris,[1] Landor, Young & Rubicam New York, Young & Rubicam Advertising and Young & Rubicam Inc., which is considered one of the biggest integrated marketing communications companies in the world, and was chairman of both Young & Rubicam Advertising and its parent, Young & Rubicam Inc.[8] From 1994 to 1996, Vick served as president and CEO of Y&R New York, the largest operating unit of Y&R Advertising.[9]

In 1997 Y&R named Ed Vick, chairman and chief executive of Young & Rubicam Advertising, to the additional post of chairman and chief executive of the Y&R/Wunderman Cato Johnson Partnership. Its clients include such blue-chip advertisers as Ford Motor, American Express and Xerox.[10] It was announced in December 1997, by elevating the head of its Young & Rubicam Advertising Agency, Ed Vick, to chief operating officer (COO) of the parent company Young & Rubicam Inc.[11][12] In February, 1998 he became a Director at Young & Rubicam and served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2000.[13] Vick, picked up and attributes his management skills to his combat in Vietnam, in an interview in 2000 "Don't talk to Ed Vick about a crisis when what you really have is a big problem. The chairman of Young & Rubicam Advertising has lived through Apocalypse Now for real and reckons he knows the difference"[14] The Marketing Report named Ed "Outstanding Advertising Executive" in the United States in 1997. Vick played an instrumental role in bringing Y&R Inc public in 1998[15][16] and negotiating a 4.5 billion acquisition M&A with the British communications holding company WPP plc in 2000.[17] During Vick's tenure, Young & Rubicam won numerous creative awards and was named Agency of the Year on several occasions.[18][19] He retired in 2001, Vick said he was leaving "to begin a new chapter in my life. I think we have accomplished a tremendous amount during my time here, and I'm proud to have been part of it."[20][21][22]

Retirement and Philanthropy

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Guest speaker Old Greenwich resident Edward Vick, a Naval officer in the Vietnam War

Vick is very active in veterans' causes. He first served on the Board of the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, a mentoring effort undertaking in New York City in the early 1980s. New York Mayor Ed Koch appointed him to the Board of the New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission.[23] Vietnam Veterans of America bestowed its Lifetime Achievement Award on him for his work in support of that organization's goals.[24] He was the first Chairman of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America(IAVA), the first and largest non-profit set up to help veterans of those wars, and on the Board of Advisors for the political action committee VoteVets. He is a well-known public speaker, who is often invited to speak on patriotism and veterans issues on Memorial Day ceremonies in Greenwich, CT.[25]

Beyond veterans' causes, he served on a number of other boards including Hackley School in Tarrytown, NY, The American Foundation for Aids Research, the United Negro College Fund, The Advertising Education Foundation, iWeb.com,[26] Northern Westchester Hospital, and The American Association of Advertising Agencies. He is currently the chairman of the Board of Advisors of the School of Media and Journalism at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill where he founded an annual $10,000 annual prize to one professor for 'Innovation in Teaching'.[27][28] He served for 3 years as Chair of the Board of Trustees, and still a board member of The Episcopal Academy outside Philadelphia and is co-author of their current Strategic Plan. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Union League, Merion Golf Club and The Ends of the Earth Society.

Family

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His father, also named Edward H. Vick, (he is a "jr") was a physician, and his mother Margaret was a homemaker. In 2010 Vick married Stephanie Kugelman, a 36-year advertising executive of Young & Rubicam[29] whom he had met while working at Young & Rubicam Inc. They currently live and reside in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, of which is a beach town near Long Island Sound and a subset of Greenwich, Connecticut. Edward has three children, two sons and one daughter.

References

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  1. ^ a b Edelman, Bernard (30 May 2002). Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-393-32304-7. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  2. ^ "Ed Vick profile". Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America-IAVA.
  3. ^ Staff Writer (January 7, 2012). "Edward H. Vick - Medill - Northwestern University". Northwestern University.
  4. ^ slocum, bill (November 15, 2015). "Four Decades Later, Local Vietnam Vets Step Out of Shadows". Greenwich Time. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  5. ^ Vick, Edward (2002). Slingshot: Based on Actual Events. Bedford Press. ISBN 1401074731.
  6. ^ edelman, bernard (December 23, 2002). "Ed Vick's Slingshot Tells a Riveting Tale Of the Brown-Water Navy along the Mekong". Veterans Advantage.
  7. ^ smith, tom (April 23, 2015). "SLINGSHOT, By Hinckley Owner Ed Vick, Chronicles Jetboat Ops in Vietnam War". Hinckley Yachts.
  8. ^ Edwards, Jim (March 7, 2013). "Ad Agency Y&R New York Welcomes Its 16th CEO Since The Year 2000". Business Insider.
  9. ^ Lazarus, George (December 16, 1993). "Young & Rubicam Names New Ceo". Chicago Tribune.
  10. ^ Goll Beatty, Sally (March 3, 1997). "Advertising Young & Rubicam Revamps To Keep Up With Demand". The Wall Street Journal.
  11. ^ Goll Beatty, Sally (December 8, 1997). "Y&R Names Vick to No. 2 Spot, Helping Pave the Way for an IPO". The Wall Street Journal.
  12. ^ Beatty, Sally. "Y&R taps P.R. man to head ad agency". The Wall Street Journal Western Edition.
  13. ^ Staff Writers (May 13, 2005). "Edward H. Vick: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved May 13, 2005.
  14. ^ tylee, john (July 21, 2000). "A VETERANS RETURN TO Y&R: Young & Rubicam's new chairman, Ed Vick, picked up his management skills in combat in Vietnam. His coolness under fire has earned him a tough reputation as a hired gun". Campaign Live.
  15. ^ Voight, Peter (March 9, 1998). "Young & Rubicam: The Market Makers: How Peter Georgescu And His Team Turned Adland's Most Private Agency Into Its Biggest Public Coming-Out". Adweek.
  16. ^ Georgescu, Peter (December 31, 1999). "Securities And Exchange 10-K Report for YOUNG & RUBICAM INC". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
  17. ^ "MANAGEMENT MUSICAL CHAIRS AT Y&R FOLLOWS DEAL WITH WPP". WARC. June 6, 2000.
  18. ^ "PEOPLE: PHOTO REVIEW". Advertising Age. January 5, 1998.
  19. ^ Staff, Adweek (January 20, 2003). "Agency of the Year 2002: Past Winners". Adweek.
  20. ^ McMaines, Andrew (October 18, 2001). "Y&R's Ed Vick retires". Adweek. Retrieved October 18, 2001.
  21. ^ Vranica, Suzanne (October 19, 2001). "Y&R Advertising CEO Ed Vick Resigns; Michael Dolan to Head the WPP Unit". The Wall Street Journal.
  22. ^ sanders, lisa (October 18, 2001). "Y&RCEO ED VICK STEPS DOWN". Adage.
  23. ^ Brown, tim (March 29, 2016). "How was Veterans Advantage founded? – Veterans Advantage, PBC". Veterans Advantage. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
  24. ^ McMaines, Andrew (October 18, 2001). "Y&R's Ed Vick retires". Adweek. Retrieved October 18, 2001.
  25. ^ Borsuk, Ken (May 29, 2017). "Greenwich ceremonies recognize Memorial Day". Greenwich Time. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  26. ^ Sanders, Lisa (May 23, 2000). "Y&R CEO Edward Vick joins iWeb.com's board of directors". Adage.
  27. ^ smith, jon (September 21, 2009). "Edward Vick Prize for Innovation in Teaching". UNC School of Media & Journalism. Retrieved September 21, 2009.
  28. ^ Finley, Linda (June 18, 1999). "Donors bring journalism school $110,000 closer to covering Carroll Hall renovation". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  29. ^ Andrew Mccains (May 31, 1999). "Y&R Gives N.Y. to Kugelman". The Ad Week.

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