The Direct Marketing Association’s List & Data Council has chosen Tim Hickman, a senior list manager at American List Counsel Inc., as its 2008 Ron Davis Young List Professional of the Year Award. It will also bestow its inaugural Industry Innovation Award on Scott Chilcutt, president of Marketing Information Network.
Additionally, as previously reported Linda Huntoon, executive VP of brokerage at Direct Media Inc., was chosen as List Leader of The Year (http://directmag.com/news/huntoon-list-leader-0428/).
The Ron Davis Award recognizes young list professionals who have made a mark in their careers. Candidates must be middle-management level or below, with fewer than five years’ experience in the list and data profession.
Hickman has been with ALC since February 2006. He currently oversees some of ALC’s top-managed properties such as Reader’s Digest, Time Life, and Highlights for Children. Hickman is known for upselling clients on one of his managed lists or recommending other ALC properties to mailers if he thinks they would be a good fit.
He also helps train new employees in the Data Management Division and works closely with the director of operations on creating a better workflow for both ALC and its clients.
The new Industry Innovation Award is given to an individual whose products, services, or business practices have made a lasting, positive impact on, andrevolutionized, the list and data field. The recipient has been integrally involved in creating ways for companies to be more productive and effective in serving their clients and employees.
Chilcutt started Marketing Information Network (mIn) in October 1989. The company’s mission was to create an electronic DataCard System that would cause efficiency “in an industry full of inefficiencies.”
Currently, mIn provides an extensive resource for mailing and email lists, as well as insert, statement stuffers, coop mailings along with interactive media rates and information. The company uses people, not computers, to constantly verify and update more than 55,000 active datacards for access by hundreds of list companies.
The awards will be presented during a June 9 awards dinner which coincides with the DM Days New York Conference & Expo.
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