Tim Pollak
Vice Chairman/Worldwide Director of Client Service
Young & Rubicam Advertising

Tim Pollak is Vice Chairman and Worldwide Director of Client Services of Y&R Advertising, a member of the Worldwide Partnership Board of Y&R Inc. and the President's Client Council.

Tim is the senior Y&R representative on the Advisory Board of the agency's joint venture with Dentsu Inc. and serves on its Board of Directors. The joint venture, Dentsu Young & Rubicam Partnerships, operates 36 companies in 21 cities in Asia/Pacific and the United States.

He has served four terms as an elected member of the International Advertising Association World Board of Directors and serves on the International Committee of the American Association of Advertising Agencies.

Tim began his advertising career in 1968 with Doyle Dane Bernbach. Four years later, he left consumer advertising to start his own political consulting company in his home state of Delaware. In 1974, he joined a well-known New York political consulting firm -- Garth Associates -- where he created advertising for the campaigns of Mayors Ed Koch and Tom Bradley, Governors Hugh Carey and Brendan Byrne, and the late Senator John Heinz.

In 1978, Tim returned to consumer advertising with Young & Rubicam. He was elected a Vice President in Account Management in 1981 and two years later was named Senior Vice President, Director of Marketing.

In April 1987, Tim was named President and CEO of DYR and led the merger of DYR with HCM, becoming Chief Executive Officer of the new company . During his three-year tenure, HDM -- a global agency tri-venture owned by Young & Rubicam, Dentsu and Havas expanded into Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul, Bombay and Australia/New Zealand. The agency is now called Dentsu Young & Rubicam.

In 1990, he returned to the parent company as President and CEO of its New York office. He was named Vice Chairman of the worldwide agency in 1992. In 1995, as Managing Partner on the Colgate-Palmolive account, he helped orchestrate the largest global consolidation in agency history.