Out with Old and Creating the New: Marketing Concepts Reboot for a Sustainable Future (NAMPC 2021)

Gilbert Guaring is an idea peddler, a cohort and convert of responsible, sustainable and strategic marketing and communications. Gilbert firmly believes that Marketing and Communications are one of the reasons why we are experiencing the climate crisis; therefore, this is a problem every marketer needs to fix. He loves engaging and connecting with consumers and clients. He has over 20 years of marketing, advertising and communications experience working with leading creative industries.Gilbert is Global Head of Marketing, Sustainability and Engagement at UAP (Urban Art Projects) where he partners with the organisation's board of directors, executive and country leadership teams across all studios and workshops in Australia, Asia and North America. UAP collaborates with the best artists and creative to deliver creative outcomes for the public realm. 

Last 2017, Gilbert created Be Extraordinary! a not-for-profit organisation organising thought-leadership activities to inspire and empower small & medium-sized businesses in the art, design and built environment industries on the importance of responsible and strategic marketing and communications with sustainability at its core.Before UAP, Gilbert was fortunate to have been part of highly creative and strategic advertising and communications agencies for the world's biggest consumer goods brand - Unilever for brands like Dove, Dove Men+Care, Pond's, Sunsilk, Comfort FabCon, Cornetto, Magnum and Wall’s in global, regional and local integrated marketing and communications projects. Other brand experiences include retail, luxury and professional services.

Gilbert has a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering at the University of the Philippines Los Banos and Business Engineering and Management at University of California Los Angeles and an MBA at Griffith University Brisbane, Australia.  He is currently preparing post doctorate research study on the same topic of Out with the Old and Creating the New: Marketing Concepts Reboot for a Sustainable Future.

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As Public Art Fund's Deputy Director, Kellie Honeycutt leads all aspects of the organization's communications, development, and administration activities. She is responsible for advancing the organization’s mission and strategic vision, as well as its impact and visibility through marketing, publicity, digital media, design, audience development, engagement, fundraising, special events, finance, human resources, and operations. This has included leading successful media campaigns for exhibitions including Tauba Auerbach’s tour de force floating sculpture "Flow Separation" (2018); Ai Weiwei's internationally-acclaimed, New York City-wide exhibition "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" (2017); and Anish Kapoor's "Descension" (2017), a continuously swirling liquid mass converging in a central vortex at Brooklyn Bridge Park, among many others. Prior to joining Public Art Fund, Honeycutt was a Senior Account Executive at Blue Medium—a public relations and marketing firm specializing in art and architecture—where her international roster of clients included Judd Foundation, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Steven Holl Architects, Prospect New Orleans, the Reykjavik Arts Festival, and the United States Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale featuring Bruce Nauman, which was awarded the Golden Lion. Her 20+ years of experience in the cultural realm also include work with the New Museum, New York; Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York; Auckland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC; and Lord Cultural Resources, a global strategic planning firm.

Prasan has over 20 years of experience working in financial services, advertising, strategy consulting and fashion. A lover of arts and sciences, he brings both story and systems thinking to all his work. His portfolio of accounts include iconic brands such as American Express, Verizon, UPS and Philips amongst many others. Prasan, an author of a sustainably designed children’s book, also moonlights as a professor of Sustainability, Marketing and Research at an impact-focused graduate program. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a bachelors from Rutgers University.

Benoit is a brand transformation partner, impact investor, and lover of the great outdoors. He currently serves Ogilvy Asia's Chief Strategy Officer, supporting a team of 400+ strategist across the world's most diverse and dynamic growth region. He believes brands that embrace sustainability as an opportunity for transformation and innovation to become active part of the solution will be the growth leaders of tomorrow.