Tiffany R. Warren, EVP, chief diversity and inclusion officer at Sony Music Group, has been named AAF (American Advertising Federation) board chair for the 2021-2022 year. She succeeds Lynn Lewis, US CEO, UM Worldwide. The announcement was made at the AAF annual board meeting as part of its ADMERICA conference and annual business meeting.
“It has been an incredible honor to serve as AAF chair and I am thrilled to pass the baton to Tiffany, as there is no better leader to continue to drive the meaningful work the AAF does for the industry,” said Lewis. “With two core areas of focus around expanding our diversity, equity and inclusion work and emphasizing the audio, music and entertainment aspects of the AAF programing, I’m excited about all that the team will achieve in the coming year with Tiffany at the helm.”
Warren is a well-known executive within the advertising, media and marketing community having recently served as chief diversity officer for Omnicom Group, Inc. for more than 11 years prior to assuming her current position with Sony Music Group. Among her long list of contributions and achievements is ADCOLOR, the premier organization and movement that champions diversity and inclusion in creative industries, which she founded 15 years ago and remains its president. She’s also a prior recipient of the AAF’s Barton A. Cummings Gold Medal Award for exceptional volunteer service to the industry and a member of the AAF Advertising Hall of Achievement. Warren was also the AAF board secretary for the past six years.
“Tiffany personifies what AAF is all about–a unifying voice for advertising,” said Steve Pacheco, president and CEO of AAF. “Tiffany was a member of our very first class of Most Promising Multicultural Students and the prior chair of the AAF’s longstanding Mosaic Council, two strategic diversity-focused initiatives of the AAF. With Tiffany’s leadership and support, we plan to launch our most ambitious fund-raising effort ever, including the launch of the Mosaic Center Expansion Fund as well as efforts to add more historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) to our 130 college chapters.”
Pacheco added, “I cannot thank Lynn Lewis enough for her stewardship over the past year. During a very difficult moment, Lynn led an increasingly diverse AAF board, helped attract new corporate members and championed the new brand identity for our 100+ year old organization.”
Additionally the AAF announced that Carter Murray, CEO of FCB Global, will serve alongside Warren as vice chair of the board, succeeding Warren effective July 2022.
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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