Leo-Arthur Kelmenson
Chairman, FCB Worldwide

Leo-Arthur Kelmenson is Chairman of FCB Worldwide, a leading global advertising agency. He plays a leading role in the company's international expansion and in the development of overall corporate strategy. He also serves on the Board of Directors of its parent company, True North Communications Inc., the advertising agency holding company.

He previously served as Chairman of the agency and focused his energies on the DaimlerChrysler account. Until December 1997, when Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt was merged with True North, Leo was Chairman of the Board of BJK&E.

Leo first joined Kenyon & Eckhardt in 1967 and was named President in 1968 and Chief Executive Officer the following year. He was elected Chairman/CEO in 1984 and held that title at the time of the agency's merger with Bozell in 1986.

Earlier, Leo had been Executive Vice President at Norman, Craig and Kummel and Senior Vice President at Lennen & Newell, where he began his career in the mailroom and served in positions ranging from television producer to assistant to the president.

Born in New York, Leo served with the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II. A graduate of Columbia University, he earlier spent two years at the Career Diplomat School of the University of Geneva and the University of Mexico, studying international relations and foreign trade.

Leo was President Eisenhower's representative to the International Conference on World Peace in Geneva and as a result, won the Guggenheim World Peace Award in 1951. In 1955, he received the Theodore Roosevelt Award for Outstanding Man of the Year. He has authored a number of short stories and a book of poetry, "Epilogue," the recollections of his experience as a Marine paratrooper. The book won him a Silver Quill Poetry Award. He has also received the American Jewish Committee's Human Relations Award, the Cabrini Humanitarian Award and the Reserve Officers Associations Award. He served as a Special Projects Officer for the U.S. Department of State in 1962 and 1963.

Leo has been senior adviser and counsel to Lee Iacocca and on the Board of the Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Foundation. He has served on the Board of Directors of the President's Council of the American Diabetes Association, the National Cancer Foundation, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, the Theodore Roosevelt Foundation, the United States Olympic Committee, the Advertising Club of New York, the American Cinemathique, and was a founding member of the African Medical & Research Foundation and Dr. Armand Hammer's Stop Cancer Foundation. He is a member of the President's Commission on International Relations and the U.S. Yacht Racing Association. He is Chairman of the Advisory and Development Board of New York University Tisch School of the Arts and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Iacocca Foundation.

Leo is the father of two grown sons and a daughter and makes his home in New York City, Long Island and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.