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ASI’s Counselor Magazine Celebrates 2018 Hot List

Counselor® magazine today announced the movers and shakers on its 2018 Hot List, an annual celebration of the bold, the brash and the beautiful people heating up the promotional products industry. The 2018 Hot List is an international mix of suppliers and distributors that features lawyers, marketing execs, product designers and second-career standouts as well as ace salespeople, with the majority under 40.

“This year’s Hot Listers represent an exclusive club of 20 top performers who are idealists at heart, but pragmatists in purpose, with the uncommon will to eschew the way things have always been done in the promo world,” said Counselor Editor-in-Chief Dave Vagnoni (@VagnoniASI) “We’re delighted to celebrate the innovative ways they think, create and sell. I’m betting their new ideas pay off by transforming the industry in a very big way.”

Counselor magazine, which provides news, trends and business strategies to top distributor decision-makers, is published by the Advertising Specialty Institute® (ASI).

The 2018 Counselor Hot List, in alphabetical order by last names:

  • Chris Arvay, Proforma, asi/300094
  • Katelyn Aumock, IDProductsource, asi/62088
  • Elli Chemel, A.T. Designs, asi/30239
  • Ryan Conant, TravelChair, asi/91916
  • Emily DelMarco, City Paper Co., asi/162267
  • Meghan Falkner, Sunrise Identity, asi/339206
  • Jessica Ibsen, Fully Promoted Mandeville & Metairie, asi/384679
  • Sean Kurtzman, Midnite Snax, asi/71685
  • Mason Linn, Raining Rose, asi/80489
  • Jacques Marais, Creative Marketing Concepts, asi/170631
  • Grant Mayan, The Promo Addict, asi/302225
  • Kevin Mullaney, Brandito, asi/325944
  • Dane Negrey, Brand Aid, asi/145193
  • James Przybyszewski, Hit Promotional Products, asi/61125
  • Emma Reynolds, Outstanding Branding, asi/288519
  • Bjorn Rheborg, Gemline, asi/56070
  • Eric Simsolo, Next Level Apparel, asi/73867
  • Alexandra Webb, McCabe Promotional Products, asi/264901
  • Joshua White, BAMKO, asi/131431
  • Rory Young, Pop! Promos, asi/45657

Click here for an online listing, with individual profiles and photos. For the first time, the list includes a song chosen by some of the Hot Listers as the one they listen to as motivation for the day, a big meeting or presentation. The winners will also be featured in Counselor’s June issue, available in print and online.

Anyone in the $23.6 billion promotional products industry can nominate a peer for the annual Hot List, published since 2008. This year, the criteria limited nominees to up-and-comers who have worked in the industry for five years or less.  MORE INFO