Javelin isn’t your typical agency. It’s an innovative culture where clients are partners and ideas become profits. It’s where we can be creative, crunch numbers, sell ideas and have fun along the way. Want to meet our leadership team?
Mike McCartin, President
Mike manages a team of highly experienced executives, each an expert in their chosen field, and leads their efforts to build, maintain and improve relationships and prove it. His eclectic background in digital marketing, marketing technology, operations and business intelligence serves him well in helping lead Javelin in relentlessly driving client value. Interesting Fact: Mike holds dual citizenship – US and Irish.
Anne DeLorenzo, SVP, Managing Director, Javelin NY
Anne is responsible for directing a team located in our New York office, with a roster that includes pharmaceutical/health care, financial and general business clientele. Her experience covers a range of industry categories and markets and a broad spectrum of tactics. Interesting Fact: All four of Anne’s grandparents are from Italy. Three of them are even from the same small town.
Chad Jones, SVP, Managing Director, Javelin Atlanta
Chad’s background in mathematics and statistics makes him well qualified to play a leadership role in Javelin’s marketing intelligence and decision-support capabilities. An experienced C-level executive, he brings a broad range of marketing skills to help us meet and exceed our clients’ expectations and goals. Interesting Fact: Twins run in Chad’s family. Both he and his sister have fraternal twin boys, and they’re even all the same age.
RP Kumar, SVP, Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning is the foundation of great creative ideas. RP leads a team of skilled and experienced planners, who work across the whole Javelin network and provide the research and insights needed to fuel the powerful and effective creative that helps drive customer value. RP brings global advertising experience to Javelin. Interesting Fact: RP is both an avid gourmet and an engineer, but not necessarily in that order.
Nancy Draughn, SVP, Executive Creative Director
Nancy leads the creative staff across the Javelin network. She brings over two decades of advertising experience to her role. Her experience, strong conceptual and strategic skills, and production knowledge allow her to steer her creative teams to produce a consistently high standard of work. Interesting Fact: Nancy appeared in Newsweek and Time magazines in the same week — and in the World Book Encyclopedia the same year.
Ellie Mitchell, SVP, Client Operations and Integration
One of the founding members of the Javelin leadership team, Ellie oversees new business, agency marketing and client special initiatives. Her experience in various executive-level positions in client services, human resources and finance have made her instrumental in bringing metrics to ad spending in order to maximize our clients’ return on investment. Interesting Fact: Ellie’s daughter was born in Vladivostok, Russia.
Leigh Ober, VP, Human Resources
Recruiting and retaining the best and brightest talent is fundamental to the success of any agency, and Leigh and her team take care of this for all Javelin offices. Leigh's group is also responsible for training and personnel development as well as for ensuring the efficient use of resources across the Javelin network. Interesting Fact: When she's not looking for exceptional talent, Leigh searches for Nirvana through yoga.
Joyce Kobilansky, VP, Finance
Fiscal responsibility and diligent management of Javelin's finances is what Joyce and her team is all about. Javelin's corporate owners, Omnicom Group, require speedy reporting and forecasting. More importantly, our clients frequently express their great satisfaction with the level of detail and accuracy maintained by Joyce's financial group. Interesting Fact: In her free time, Joyce likes...oh no, she doesn't have any free time.
Michael Radigan, VP, Interactive & Technology
Mike is a firm believer in the incorporation of intelligence into all forms of advertising and marketing, whether in the form of digital input or digital output. Under Mike's leadership, Javelin's capabilities in the area of data-based marketing, the construction of dashboard interfaces, traditional permission marketing and application development have earned a solid reputation. Interesting Fact: Mike hails from New Mexico and is addicted to Hatch chiles.