• October 17, 2003

The Association of National Advertisers has added new members to its board of directors, as well as extended the terms of several key officers. The new members are Lisa Baird, IBM's vice president of worldwide integrated marketing communications; Gary Elliot, Hewlett-Packard's vice president of global brand and marketing communications; Peter Littlewood, senior vice president of corporate marketing for Masterfoods; ANA president and chief executive officer Robert Liodice; Brad Simmons, vice president of media services for Unilever United States; and John Costello, executive vice president of merchandising and marketing for Home Depot. The ANA also extended the terms of chairman of the board James Speros, Ernst & Young's chief marketing officer, to two years and vice chairman James Stengel, Procter & Gamble's global marketing officer, to two years.