Ark Advisors is a management consulting firm committed to developing and instituting innovative approaches to the broad range of complex issues facing corporate advertisers and their marketing communications partners.

Founded by three of the industry's most respected consultants (Ann Billock, Russel Wohlwerth and Ken Robinson), Ark Advisors works in concert with clients to help them optimize their agency relationships and to maximize the effectiveness of their own internal marketing operations.

Ark Advisors services include:


• • Agency Search (Creative, Media, Interactive, Innovation, Direct/CRM, PR, Design/Identity, Promotion/Events, Multicultural, and Global Reviews)
  
  
• • Compensation Negotiation (Assessment & review, incentive models, fee benchmarking, best practices)
  
  
• • Agency Roster Optimization (alignment/consolidation)
  
  
• • Agency Relationship Management (Assessment, relationship optimization, workshop facilitation)
  
  
• • Marketing Management (Optimization & Alignment of Internal Resources, Best Practices in Agency/Resource Management)
  
  
• • The New Media Landscape (Managing for Integration, Understanding the New Media World)
  
  
• • And all other marketing and advertising resource matters

Ark Advisors is the only US marketing management consultancy with Principals on both coasts, giving us better access to - and knowledge of - the dynamic national marketing landscape. We are also the only marketing management consultancy with a true global network. Ark Advisors is the North American partner of Agency Assessments International (AAI), a London-based marketing consultancy with offices on six continents.

Clients and Experience

We have led hundreds of searches and consulting projects for a broad spectrum of companies – from small passion brands to some of the world's largest blue-chip corporations, including:

Automotive
Porsche, BMW, Hyundai, Land Rover, MINI, Mitsubishi, Nissan

Beauty/Fashion
L'Oreal, Coty Beauty US & Timberland

Financial Services
American Express, NASDAQ, Visa, WaMu, Barclays Global Investors, Dreyfus Funds, H&R Block, JP Morgan Chase, Liberty Mutual, Progressive Insurance, Wells Fargo Bank

Packaged Goods
Gillette, Heinz USA, Cadbury Schweppes, Reckitt Benckiser, Del Monte Foods, Diamond Walnuts, Eight O'Clock Coffee,

Pharma
Bristol Myers-Squibb, Eli Lilly

Automotive
IHOP, Subway, Taco Bell, Checkers, El Torito Grill, Rally's, Rubio's, TGI Friday's

Retail
Bed Bath & Beyond, Hallmark, Toys R Us, Giant Eagle Supermarkets

Technology/Consumer Electronics
Activision, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Olympus, Sony, Epson, Intel, Casio, DIRECTV, Adobe, AMD, ClearWire, Lucent Technologies, Oracle, SanDisk

Telecom
Nextel, Sprint, Virgin Mobile

Travel/Leisure/Entertainment
Hotels.com, Six Flags, Virgin Atlantic Airways

Wine & Spirits
Absolut, Brown-Forman, Mike's Hard Lemonade, Robert Mondavi Winery

If you would like to hear more about our services or if we can be of assistance to you in any way, please do not hesitate to contact us. Be assured that all inquiries are held in the strictest confidence.