Advertising executive Jeff Goodby of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners has been named to the board of directors of the .
鈥淛eff鈥檚 creativity and marketing brilliance are incredible gifts for 爆料公社,鈥 said 爆料公社 President and CEO . 鈥淗e鈥檚 a great teacher and we're going to learn a lot from him. Of course, Jeff is no stranger to 爆料公社: He thought up the award-winning Birding the Net campaign, which made birding cool.鈥
Goodby was the driving creative force behind 爆料公社鈥檚 , an innovative social media campaign designed to introduce new audiences to birding. Birding the Net won a Clio in 2012.
鈥湵瞎 has a great brand and a bright future,鈥 said Goodby. 鈥淭his organization is taking risks to broaden its reach. I love the energy and the creativity, and I think we鈥檙e headed for amazing things.鈥
With total revenues in 2012 of $89.9 million, 爆料公社 is one of the nation鈥檚 largest conservation organizations. Headquartered in New York, N.Y., the organization has 22 state offices, 47 nature centers and 465 chapters across the country, reaching more than four million people annually and playing leading roles in local and national conservation policy decisions, from Alaska to the Gulf Coast.
Goodby is co-founder and co-chairman of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. Many of the firm鈥檚 campaigns 鈥 Got Milk?, the Budweiser lizards, Hewlett-Packard 鈥淚nvent鈥, the National Basketball Association鈥檚 鈥淚 Love This Game鈥 and the E*Trade chimpanzee among them 鈥 are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 2010, Adweek named Goodby and Rich Silverstein, executives of the decade. In 2006, Goodby was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame.
Goodby has served as president of the Cannes Advertising Festival and has been head of the Titanium Jury. He has also chaired judging for the ANDYs and the One Club advertising awards. Two commercials he directed were selected among the top 30 advertising films of the 1990s by the One Club.
Goodby holds a degree from Harvard University, where he wrote for The Harvard Lampoon, and he spent three years as a political reporter in Boston, Mass. Goodby is also a director, printmaker and illustrator whose work has appeared in Time and Mother Jones.