Leadership
Tom Browning President & CEO
- 30+ year Agency career building successful agency-client partnerships with McDonald’s (U.S. and Global), SC Johnson, AnheuserBusch, Nestlé, Frito-Lay, Discover Card and many others
- Joined JLB + Partners in 2021 and has partnered with Little Caesars, Consolidated Edison, SC Johnson, Zillow, Ruiz Foods, Wells Fargo, Duracell, Tropicana Brands, and many others to help improve their agency relationships.
- Featured speaker at the 2022 ANA Financial Management Conference: “Trends in Agency Compensation,” the 2023 Mirren New Business conference, and the 2024 AAAA’s Management Practitioner’s Forum.
Julie Wenger Senior Consultant
- Led McDonald’s USA Brand & Content Team, managing the 10- member Integrated Agency Team.
- Led the standing up of a 220-person bespoke agency and development of a deliverables-based compensation structure, and consolidation of agency resources.
- Led multiple searches, reviews, consolidations and compensation negotiations for agency scopes spanning from AOR to projectbased.
- Joined JLB+P in 2022 and has partnered with Wells Fargo, Inspire Brands/Arby’s, Remy-Cointreau, Norfolk Southern, Tropicana Brands, and many others to help improve their agency relationships.
Debbie McKean Senior Consultant
- Broad and deep agency & client marketing management experience.
- Client & agency marketing success with Fidelity Investments, Sears.com and launching State Farm into financial services.
- CMO positions with expertise in digital, performance marketing and media diversification.
- Led multiple agency search and review initiatives from project based to AOR, including compensation and scope negotiations.
- At JLB+P, has partnered with Zillow, Consolidated Edison, Wegmans, Wells Fargo and many others on Agency Search and Compensation engagements.
Molly McKenna Senior Consultant
Molly McKenna brings more than 20 years of Public Relations and Communications experience to the JLB & Partners team.
Most recently, Molly was a senior global communications leader at McDonald’s Corporation where she led multiple facets of communications across external, internal/enterprise, reputation and crisis, philanthropy and brand/consumer communications.
McKenna is the recipient of multiple leadership and industry awards including McDonald’s first-ever PR Gold and Silver Cannes Lions, and several PR Week top honors.
David Beals Senior Advisor
Dave has provided counsel to a diverse group of clients including General Motors, U.S. Army, S.C. Johnson, Walmart, Whirlpool, Kellogg’s, Cisco Systems, Johnson & Johnson, Michelin, Microsoft, Allstate, Nissan, and Dairy Queen.
He is the author of the Association of National Advertisers’ triennial Trends in Agency Compensation surveys, and the latest ANA editions of Evaluating Agency Performance, and Agency Compensation: A Guidebook. Prior to JLB+P, David was a Senior VP, Group Account Director at DDB.
There, he worked with a variety of the country’s biggest and best-known advertisers, including Anheuser-Busch, McDonald’s, General Mills, and Campbell Soup Company. David received a B.A. in International Affairs from the University of Colorado and a Masters Degree in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Mary Conrad Managing Director
Mary has been a valued member of JLB+P for over 20 years. Her clients include leading global and US. marketers such as General Motors, U.S. Army, Sony, Levi Strauss, Walgreens,
Four Seasons Resorts and Hotels, SC Johnson, Boeing, and many others. Her background also includes account management leadership positions at advertising agencies DDB and FCB, where she worked on brands including McDonald’s, Maybelline, General Mills, Motorola, Dial, Kraft, and Quaker Oats.
Mary also brings valuable client-side marketing experience as former VP of Marketing for Peapod, the industry’s first e-commerce grocery retailer. Mary is the author of the ANA’s Insights Brief on Evaluating Agency Performance. Mary is an undergraduate and graduate school alum of Northwestern University