Inside PPAI | Community WHAT’S HAPPENING Inside PPAI This Month 91 PPAI Announces 2023 Board Election Results 92 PPAI Brings On Market Economist, Senior Manager Of Research 94 Mason Linn Joins PPAI As Membership Manager PPAI Announces 2023 Board Election Results ASSOCIATION MEMBERS HAVE ELECTED new directors to the PPAI Board. Erin Reilly, CEO and founder of supplier Pop! Promos, and Zack Ottenstein, president of The Image Group – ranked the No. 41 distributor in this year’s PPAI 100 – were approved in this summer’s board election. Reilly’s and Ottenstein’s tenures on the board begin in January at The PPAI Expo 2024 and extend through The PPAI Expo 2028. The industry veterans will replace the expiring terms of Dawn Olds, MAS, senior vice president of industry relations and DEI at HALO, and Tom Goos, MAS, president of Image Source. Reilly fell into the promotional products market when, as a senior at John Hopkins University, she and her friend Sterling Wilson started making Pantone-matched sunglasses. Launching College Glasses in 2012 and rebranding to Pop! Promos a year later, Reilly has worn just about every hat at the Philadelphia-based supplier, scaling the firm from a small startup to more than 125 employees in offices across the globe. “This industry has been so generous to me over the past 10 years in my role as CEO and founder of Pop! Promos,” says Reilly. “I’m excited to pay it forward to the industry as a whole and the PPAI Board specifically. I’m also excited to represent the next generation of leaders in the industry on the PPAI Board. As an executive in my early 30s, I come to the board with a unique perspective and vision for how we can cultivate, nurture and elevate rising leaders in the industry.” Ottenstein joined The Image Group in 2016 after serving as an investment analyst and director of marketing communications for Welltower, a $40 billion enterprise value company. He has led the Holland, Ohio-based firm’s transformation into a vertical-focused marketing solutions business, and in 2018 he was named a PPAI Rising Star. He is also a highly involved member of the Young Presidents’ Organization. “It’s important to support the industry, especially during such a transformative time,” says Ottenstein. “We all face a long list of changes and challenges: industry consolidation, prohibitive technology investments, disintermediation and emerging competitive technologies. As a result, PPAI’s mission has never been more relevant. The industry’s well-being will require creativity and industry-wide contributions. PPAI Erin Reilly Zack Ottenstein PPAI • OCTOBER 2023 • 91
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