Jerry Kathman is President and Chief Executive Officer of LPK, the largest independent brand design agency in the world with offices in North America, Europe and Asia. Jerry is recognized within the industry as a leading authority on the role of design in brand building. His global experience has provided Fortune 500 companies with insights into both the opportunities and pitfalls of taking a brand beyond national boundaries.

Jerry sits on the Board of the Design Management Institute and is a faculty member of the In-Store Marketing Institute. He has appeared on CNN and CNBC and has been quoted or published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Brandweek, Design Management Review, Die Welt, and Hong Kong Economic Times. Jerry has authored numerous white papers in academic and professional journals on topical issues in brand design development and management.

He has lectured to business and academic audiences in North America, Europe and Asia, including Columbia University, University of California at Berkeley, New York University, the Hong Kong Design Centre, Singapore Design Festival, the Design Management Institute and the In-Store Marketing Institute.

Jerry is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees for CET, Cincinnati’s Public Television, and serves on the Board of Trustees for both the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber. Jerry continues to support his alma mater, the College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning at the University of Cincinnati, recently serving on the search committee to appoint a new dean for the college.

About LPK

LPK is an international design agency where remarkable people Build Leadership Brands. By integrating strategy, design and innovation, LPK leverages relevant consumer, shopper and market insights to create value, sustain leadership and transform businesses. The agency’s portfolio of category-leading brands and long-term client relationships attracts some of the best and brightest creative minds in the world. LPK’s combination of strategic skills, creative disciplines and cross-cultural perspectives results in brand-building innovation across media, geography and time.

With a presence in North America, Europe and Asia, LPK is the world’s largest employee-owned brand design agency. LPK has developed and managed brand design franchises for some of the world’s most successful businesses.

LPK’s independent spirit champions a vibrant creative culture, recognized by The Wall Street Journal as a “Winning Workplace” and described by HOW Magazine as “one of the largest and most influential branding agencies on the planet.”

Locally, LPK, through the LPK Foundation, is committed to the Greater Cincinnati community by providing gifts of time, talent and monetary support to the arts, environmental causes and non-profit organizations that provide for those in need. LPK has developed the brand design franchises for some of the area’s most beloved institutions, including Cincinnati Opera, CET, Cincinnati Art Museum, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati Public Schools and United Way of Greater Cincinnati.

LPK confidently claims to be the only design consultancy whose president has told its story in a song. LPK Talkin’ Blues.

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