Advisory Board

Brodeur’s Advisory Board of industry leaders includes experts from communications, crisis, advertising, marketing and research. The Board was created in 2002 to assist the agency and its clients to stretch thinking and ideas beyond traditional parameters in branding, communications and marketing.

  • Dr. Robert Deutsch is a Boston-based specialist in communication and culture who has worked on both Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Avenue. He is a cognitive anthropologist and one of the leading strategists on how the public mind creates beliefs and how beliefs can be influenced.
  • Helio Fred Garcia is the founder and president of Logos Consulting Group, a crisis management and communications consulting firm in New York. He is a professor of management and communication at New York University, where he teaches crisis management in the Stern School of Business executive MBA program and crisis communications in the Center for Marketing.
  • Bink Garrison is the president of Bink, Inc., a Boston-based marketing and management consulting firm that helps companies with issues of strategy, innovation and growth. Garrison has more than 25 years of advertising agency management experience while he was progressively creative director, CEO and, eventually, owner of Ingalls, Quinn & Johnson, one of New England’s largest ad agencies.
  • Dave Quincy is the founder of Brand Quincy, Inc., a Boston-area marketing consulting firm that specializes in developing brand strategy and positioning for companies in the high-tech, financial services and industrial sectors. Quincy is a 33-year veteran of business-to-business and consumer marketing working for companies such as D’Arcy, a unit of bCom3, Clarion and General Electric.
  • Stuart Cable is a partner and former chair of the corporate department of Goodwin Procter, one of Boston's most prominent law firms. Cable serves as outside counsel and board member to a wide array of public and private companies. He has been involved in hundreds of public offerings, strategic acquisitions and private placements, including many in the communications business.
  • Paul Daoust is former chief operating officer of HR consulting giant Watson Wyatt Worldwide in Washington, D.C., a $700 million international human resources consulting firm with 90 offices in 40 countries. Daoust has also served on the boards or advisory boards of several Internet start-up companies and educational institutions.
  • Frank Karel is former vice president of communications for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, N.J., the largest health care foundation in the world. Previously, Karel served as vice president of communications for the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City and as associate director of public affairs for the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md.
  • Mary Modahl is former vice president of marketing for Forrester Research, Inc., a leading independent research firm in Cambridge, Mass. She is the author of the book, Now or Never: How Companies Must Change Today to Win the Battle for Internet Consumer. An influential and often-quoted analyst, Modahl's research and consulting work spans media, retail, financial services, consumer goods, computer and networks, interactive software and technologies and business trade.
  • Jeffrey F. Rayport is chief executive officer of Marketspace LLC, a unit of Cambridge, Mass.-based Monitor Group. Prior to establishing Marketspace, Rayport taught at Harvard Business School for nine years, where he authored over a hundred case studies on e-commerce and technology-mediated delivery of services. Rayport serves on a wide array of corporate boards, and he is a founding faculty member of Omnicom Group's Omnicom University and continues to teach in its Senior Management Program.