JMI

Bob Abdellah, Vice President, Global Communications

Bob presides over the JMI brand globally, as well as leading the Agency's corporate communications. He has spent most of his career in sports marketing and extensively in motorsports. His early career was as an internationally-touring auto racing journalist.

Bob has worked on the corporate, team ownership and agency sides of the industry, both with and for a "Who's Who" of Blue Chip corporations and brands including General Motors, Quaker State, MBNA and Anheuser-Busch, among others.

Tim Bampton, VP Communications, International

Tim Bampton has over 20 years in the communications industry, gained across in-house, freelance, agency and client-side roles, representing rightsholder, sponsor, team, personality and owner perspectives. His career has spanned the key communications disciplines including corporate affairs, issues and crisis management, brand and sponsorship communications, across motorsport in general and Formula One in particular.

Prior to joining JMI, Tim was co-founder of the 63G agency which, among its work for clients over five years, managed the Lucky Strike and 555 brand sponsorships in Formula One on behalf of British American Tobacco, and handled the global F1 communications for Diageo's Johnnie Walker brand.

After learning the media relations trade in corporate communications departments of international companies in London, Tim's motorsport experience began at the Brands Hatch Leisure Group, where he eventually headed up the corporate communications team.

He then moved to Williams Grand Prix in 1994, covering media and sponsorship briefs over six years on the team's touring car and F1 interests, before joining Honda's F1 media relations agency to head the business. After turning freelance Tim continued in F1 and motorsport, while adding rugby, cricket and golf to his portfolio.

After handling the Interpublic Group's media communications for the British Grand Prix in 2003, Tim returned agency side as a Public Relations Director covering multiple clients in F1, World Rally, soccer and consumer brands. At the end of 2004 Tim formed 63G which, under the banner of Lucky Strike Racing, handled BAT's motorsport interests, through the corporation's ownership and title sponsorships of the B.A.R F1 team.

Lauri Morrow Crawford, Senior Vice President, Marketing

Lauri Morrow Crawford joined JMI as Senior Vice President Marketing in February 2010. She has built and led diverse marketing teams through business model transitions at Invensys and Trane, led retail marketing at Nike, managed highly competitive brands at Procter & Gamble and established a foundation in communications at PepsiCo. Lauri's experience leading global business and brand strategy for world-class consumer packaged goods, consumer durables, retail and technology firms is now being uniquely applied in the motorsports space to advance strategy, ideation, creative, interactive and ROI capabilities for JMI's clients.

John Driscoll, Vice President, Partnership Development

John joined the agency in January 2010 and is responsible for Partnership Development in the America's. In this role, he leads the process of providing unique and comprehensive solutions to JMI clients across a variety of motorsports platforms.

Prior to joining JMI, John had a lengthy career in the publishing industry. He spent 15 years with Hachette Filipacchi Media US, working with such publications as Car and Driver, Road & Track and Cycle World. Most recently, John was the Senior Vice President, Chief Brand Officer of Car and Driver and Road & Track where he managed all aspects of both brands which included editorial, sales, marketing and brand development. Additionally, he brings sales and marketing experience from previous roles with Deltran Corporation and Oakley.

Evan Frankel, Vice President, Ideation

Evan joined the Agency at the start of 2007. He formulates approaches that provide clients with strategic direction to meet and exceed their marketing objectives. Evan manages JMI's New Jersey office located in Short Hills, just outside of New York City. Primary to creative development, he works with the JMI staff to bring forward original and innovative ideas, thinking and solutions.

Prior to joining JMI, Evan was the Director of Business Solutions at NASCAR, providing their 60 official sponsors with strategic approaches to help leverage their NASCAR assets. He also helped create and manage the highly successful NASCAR Fuel for Business Council, dedicated to business-to-business marketing among official sponsors.

Mikel Hartmann, Vice President, Client Services

Mikel is accountable for all JMI client service relationships in North America. His previous corporate background includes a 12-year tenure with Ashland, Inc., serving the Valvoline family of brands.

Before joining JMI in 2005, he was most recently Motorsports Marketing Manager for Valvoline, following a series of sales, marketing and operational posts. He has previously managed sponsorships in NASCAR, NHRA, IRL, AMA, USAC and SCCA, and a dual-purpose role with the first consumer products company to own and sponsor a NASCAR Sprint Cup team. His first-hand understanding of brand and corporate sponsorship objectives are a foundation for leading client service and business growth initiatives.

Martin Heckers, Vice President, Partnership Development

Martin Heckers, a qualified lawyer and business graduate, conducts JMI's Business Development in Europe.

A veteran global motorsports marketer, Heckers provides special depth and focus to JMI's Formula One, World Rally and MotoGP interests, among others.In his role he assists global brands in finding a suitable in-route to the motorsport marketing platform and guides and consults them on strategy and planning for their future partnership with motorsport properties to ensure return on investment.

Preceding his key senior leadership at JMI in Europe, Heckers worked for the last 12 years in marketing and communications in Formula One racing, managing and leveraging global sponsorships and hospitality programs.

John Hogan, Senior Associate, Global Strategy

As much as any corporate executive, Mr. Hogan directly contributed to the development and professionalism of the modern motorsports industry. He enjoyed a 30-year tenure at Philip Morris, in which he concluded as Vice President, Marketing and Sales, Philip Morris International, and global head of all sponsorship activities.

Mr. Hogan directed the world's largest single brand sponsorship portfolio in racing, embodied by the famous 'Marlboro Red' branding which has adorned many of motorsports' most storied and accomplished teams (e.g. McLaren, Ferrari, Penske), drivers (e.g. Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher, Emerson Fittipaldi, Mario Andretti) and tracks/events (e.g. Indianapolis, Monaco, Le Mans). His career at Philip Morris was distinguished by phenomenal success both on the track and in growing the Marlboro brand.

Upon his retirement, Mr. Hogan joined Just Marketing International as an advisor and mentor to Mr. Brown. His knowledge, relationships and credibility throughout the motorsports community are without peer. He now moves on to join Mr. Brown in the marketing of the new United Autosports.

Aled Rees, Vice President, Client Services, Just Marketing International

Aled joined JMI as VP of Client Services to manage the fulfillment of JMI's deliverables to its corporate accounts currently participating in the F.I.A. F1 World Championship. These currently include LG, Diageo (Johnnie Walker), FXDD, and Lenovo.

Aled joined us from Vodafone Group Services Ltd., where he was Global Head of F1 Sponsorship. In that role, Aled was responsible for planning and integrating a global strategic framework for the brand's F1 property. Over a 7 year period Aled successfully integrated Vodafone's 1st global sponsorship property (Ferrari F1) into the marketing mix across business and consumer channels in all key markets. He also helped negotiate and manage Vodafone's move from Ferrari to McLaren.

Previously Aled worked in the Global Event Marketing Department of Philip Morris International where he worked on Marlboro brand sponsorships in F1 and MotoGP.