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Brad learned the meaning of collaboration as an oarsman on Dartmouth’s crew team: “It’s not intuitive, but a boat actually goes slower when one guy rows better than the rest. And there is no defense in rowing, no way of stopping the other team. So the only way to win is to be smarter, work harder, care more and pull together better than your opponents.” He started his career in advertising at Leo Burnett after completing an MBA in finance at Columbia, rising from trainee to CEO of Leo Burnett USA. Brad joined McKinney as CEO in 2002 to build an agency that Advertising Age calls “uniquely suited to thrive in a digital world.” In 2008, he led a management buyback of McKinney from holding company Havas. He’s on the board of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s) and chairs the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Agency Advisory Board.