Franklin Event Draws Sell-Out Crowd to Honor Industry Luminaries
Marty Maloney, Franklin Event co-chair, in his introduction of Howard Draft said, “Howard has the uncanny ability to attract consumers on behalf of his clients and then connect with them and keep them. He totally gets behavior based marketing.”
Receiving the Power of Communications Awards were:
- Thomas Saggiomo, president and CEO, DG3 Group (for Printing);
- Kit Taylor, chief operating officer, New York Media (for Publishing); and
- Paul Nicholson, senior vice president, production & technology, Showtime Networks, Inc. (for Advertising).
PIA President Tim Freeman bestowed upon Dwight E. Vicks, III, the John Peter Zenger Medal, awarded to an individual employed in the graphics community with PIA’s trade territory who has exhibited exemplary character outside the workplace, in the form of selfless courage, charity, activism or service. Vicks, whose wife Jean was diagnosed several years ago with a rare type of cancer, the treatment for which was known to only a handful of doctors in the world, established in 2007 the International Thyroid Oncology Group, a collaboration of leading physicians and researchers throughout the world, who are seeking to find a cure.