Ann Herrick is a key member of Hallmark’s executive team that rebranded and repositioned a 100-year-old company that is one of the most recognized and respected brands in the world. She leads the strategic development, synergy integration and optimization of national campaigns delivered across all consumer contacts, across all channel marketing efforts and within all creative executions.

She has been instrumental in migrating the company's marketing platform into the digital space by building consensus and gaining acceptance at the executive level to develop a significant online presence. She also partnered with creative and product leaders to build migration maps for future product development based upon consumer and market intelligence.

Ann leads and oversees contact planning and execution, digital planning and execution, and creative production to deliver compelling and effective campaigns across all consumer contact points.

An award-winning writer and observer of creative culture, Nick Parish established Contagious in North America in 2010 after working for nearly every class of publication, from email newsletter startup to trade bible to daily tabloid newspaper. At Contagious, he writes and edits the award-winning quarterly briefing book, frequent special reports and web platforms as well as leading client-based consulting projects including the groundbreaking Project Fly venture alongside Mondelez International.

His writing has been published in the New York Post, New York magazine, Advertising Age, Creativity, Flaunt, Slam, Comstock's, Mashable and the Globe & Mail. His first book, Cool Code Bro: Brogrammers, Geek Anxiety and the New Tech Elite is available in the Kindle Store now. He resides in Brooklyn and enjoys fly fishing, dystopian fiction and any music that sounds like it could have come from Detroit.