Tim Love is Chief Executive Officer of Omnicom's Asia Pacific India Middle East Africa (APIMA) region. Omnicom is a leading worldwide marketing and communications services company. Tim is responsible for helping Omnicom and its clients be more collaborative and effective at global brand-building, areas in which his own background and expertise are particularly well suited. His experience is diverse and extensive, providing him with the unusual perspective of a true citizen of the world.
An active member of the advertising and international business community, Tim serves on several boards and advisory committees, including the Advertising Council, the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the Heart of America Foundation, the Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT) and the Institute for Advertising Ethics at the University of Missouri. He also has been a member of the 4A's Government Relations Council and has served on self-regulatory panels for the National Advertising Review Council.
Tim was a founding member and the first chairman of the 4A's Minority Advertising Internship program, a former board member of The Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and was a founding member for Business for Diplomatic Action (BDA), an industry volunteer organization focused on improving international business cooperation.
He has had numerous articles published that share his insights, and presented an array of papers and speeches on globalization, consumer and cultural understanding. He has been a guest lecturer at many venues worldwide—including Oxford, Harvard, Yale and Columbia universities, the Institute for Public Diplomacy and Security at Ohio State University, the United Nations Business Council and the Tokyo Foreign Correspondence Club. He has been keynote speaker at ESOMAR in Berlin in 2004, where he delivered "Ecologism: The Evolution of Consumerism in the Age of Ecology," at Brazil's 2007 "MaxiMidia" Conference, AAF's 100th Anniversary Conference, the Yahoo Creative Summit at the Museum of Television and Radio in Hollywood, and at numerous global client and industry gatherings.
Five papers expressing his key themes: "Think Like The Sun," "The Race For Ideas," "Advertising Industry Manifesto," "Our Language Impediment," and "Self-Regulation in a New Media World" have been published. He was also invited by the U.S. State Department to write a white paper on the issue of rising anti-Americanism following 9/11. Excerpts of this paper, titled "Walk the Talk: Think Like the Sun," were published in 2003 by Advertising Age and featured in 2004 in a book America The Brand (by Blaisse and Fuchs). A book Think Like The Sun: The Secret to Building Global Lovemark Brands was published in 2001. Many of these works, including two of his most recent lectures at Oxford's SAID School of Business, titled "Y2K84," and "Does Advertising Have A Moral Conscience," can be found on www.timlovesworld.com
Over the course of his 39-year career, Tim has held senior client relationship positions in the U.S. and abroad. In addition to his role as Chief Executive Officer of Omnicom's APIMA operations, he is a Vice-Chairman of Omnicom Group. Before joining Omnicom he was President, Global Clients, at TBWA Worldwide, where he was responsible for the agency's largest global client, Nissan Motor Company, and was based in Tokyo.
Before joining TBWA in May 2004 Tim was Vice-Chairman—International at Saatchi & Saatchi, serving as relationship manager for the Publicis Groupe's global portfolio of Procter & Gamble business (124 brands) across four agency networks. During that time, he also supervised the UBS Wealth Management account and served on the worldwide board of directors for Saatchi & Saatchi.
Tim began his career in advertising after graduating with a master's degree in communication from the University of Illinois, where he was a James Webb Young Scholar and was named "Most Outstanding Graduate" by the school in 1972. His undergraduate work was performed at Miami University in Ohio, where he had a dual major in marketing and fine arts design.
In 1992 while with D'Arcy Worldwide Tim moved to Brussels, Belgium, and assumed overall leadership of that agency's P&G business worldwide. He was instrumental in helping P&G globally extend their spectrum of brands. During this time, he led important expansions into Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, also helping P&G launch Crest in China and introducing the Always feminine hygiene brand globally, including in culturally challenging markets like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kenya, Russia, India and China. He oversaw the agency's Pampers business, winning an award from the United Nations Environmental Program for responsible marketing in 1992.
Prior to joining D'Arcy Tim headed his own agency, Tim Love Advertising. The agency created successful national advertising for Lenscrafters, British Knights, Zena Jeans and the National Committee for Adoption. His creative work on behalf of the National Committee for Adoption won recognitions from the EFFIE, TELLY and the International Broadcast Awards.
His first assignment in advertising was for the Ad Council's public service campaign for the Peace Corps. Mr. Love remarked of his early beginnings: "Working with the Ad Council on the Peace Corps campaign imprinted on me that advertising is a noble career which can help improve lives."
