Ad Council Announces David Sable, Global CEO of Y&R, as Board Vice Chair

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Oct 01, 2015, 09:15 ET

NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- David Sable, the Global Chief Executive Officer of advertising agency Y&R, was named a Vice Chair of the Ad Council's Board of Directors at the organization's Executive Committee meeting last week. He will serve alongside Board Chair David Christopher, CMO of AT&T Mobility, and Vice Chair David Kenny, Chairman and CEO of the Weather Company. Sable will serve as Vice Chair through June 2017 at which point he will assume the Board Chair position.

"David Sable has always been on the vanguard in the advertising community, including as a digital pioneer, and his dedication for giving back is exemplary," said Lisa Sherman, President and CEO of the Ad Council. "He and Y&R have been long-time supporters of the Ad Council, lending talent and time to many critical issues facing our country. We're thrilled he is taking this leadership role on our Board." Sable joined the Ad Council Board of Directors in 2011 and became a member of the Executive Committee in 2013.

Throughout his longstanding tenure at Y&R, Sable led the agency's pro bono support of several Ad Council campaigns including Digital Literacy, Ebola Aid Awareness, Financial Literacy and the most recent iteration of UNCF's (United Negro College Fund's) iconic A Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Waste campaign, which over its history with Y&R has raised over $2 billion and helped graduate over 400,000 deserving minority students from college.

In 2013, Fast Company named Sable one of the 10 Most 'Generous Marketing Geniuses,' and this position will continue that legacy. In addition to serving on the U.S. Fund for UNICEF's National Board, Sable was the founding chair of their NY Board. He also serves on NY's Volunteer State Office of National and Community Service Commission, as well as the Cultural Advisory Committee. Additionally, Sable provides his leadership on the boards of UNCF and the Christopher Reeve Foundation and he is deeply involved with the Special Olympics.

"I believe that we can help change the world by applying creative, marketing, research, branding, public relations, digital, data — all the skills and resources that make up our industry — to the world's problems. No one has done more to advance public service advertising than the Ad Council and I am honored to step into this new role and committed to helping make a difference," said David Sable.

Among his many contributions to the advertising industry, Sable has been the Director-at-Large of the 4As, and Jury President and Jury member of several Cannes Lions Creativity Festivals. Sable's advertising career began at Y&R, after which he worked at Wells Rich Greene and then co-founded Mimsar, an advertising agency in Israel. Sable then moved to Burson-Marsteller and Cohn & Wolfe, before returning to Y&R in 1990 to lead the international portion of the Colgate-Palmolive account. While there, he also helped win Y&R's U.S. Postal Service's consolidated account, before leaving to pioneer an omni-channel startup, Genesis Direct. In 2000, he moved to Wunderman, where he spent 10 years ultimately as its Vice Chairman, before returning again to Y&R.

With Sable's election, the Ad Council will continue its ongoing tradition of rotating Board Chairs every year between the organization's founding sectors: advertising agencies, media companies and corporate advertisers. For a complete list of the Ad Council board see here.

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