Ms. Ann Fudge

Ann Fudge is Chairman and CEO of Young & Rubicam Brands, a global network of pre-eminent companies across the full range of marketing communications. Young & Rubicam Brands companies also include
Burson-Marsteller (public relations/public affairs), Wunderman (direct and database marketing), Landor Associates (brand consulting and creative design), Sudler & Hennessey (strategic healthcare communications) and Cohn & Wolfe (public relations) among others.

Prior to Young & Rubicam Brands, Ms. Fudge served as President, Beverages, Desserts and Post Division – a $5 billion unit of Kraft Foods. She served on Kraft’s Management Committee and has managed many businesses including Maxwell House Coffee, Gevalia Kaffe, Kool Aid, Crystal Light, Post cereals, Jell-O desserts and Altoids. Before joining General Foods, she spent nine years at General Mills, where she began as a Marketing Assistant and rose to the level of Marketing Director.

She serves on the Board of Directors of General Electric. She also serves on the Harvard Board of Overseers, the Board of Directors of Catalyst and is a trustee of the Brookings Institution. She is a member of The Committee of 200 and The Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Fudge also serves on the boards of The Advertising Council and the Advertising Educational Foundation. In December 2005, Ms. Fudge was a recipient of the NY Executive Council’s Ten Awards, given for leadership and innovation in business. The previous year she was named as one of Time Magazine’s Global Business Influentials.

Ms. Fudge has received the Matrix Award for Advertising from New York Women in Communication. Among her other honors are Leadership Awards from the Minneapolis and New York City YWCA, an Alumni Achievement Award from Harvard Business School and an Achievement Award from The Executive Leadership Council. She has been profiled in Black Enterprise magazine, Business Week and The New York Times, among others and named by Fortune magazine as one of the 50 most powerful women in American business.

Ms. Fudge received her BA from Simmons College and her MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business.

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