Brent Hodgins

Brent comes to us from Mirren Business Development. Mirren is a small team of new business consulting specialists. By using a contrarian approach to position, pitch and prospect - Mirren’s two and three-day consulting programs help agencies win more - while spending less time and money. Their team has run marketing and new business at agencies that include TBWA\Chiat\Day and Wieden + Kennedy. In addition to new business consulting services, they produce the Workspace/CMO Roundtable Series with Harvard Business Review - learning exactly what clients want when being pitched by an agency. To find out more about Mirren, visit their web site at www.mirrenbd.com.

Brent Hodgins moved into advertising after selling his event marketing firm at twenty-five. He has since worked for agencies that have included Wieden + Kennedy, TBWA\Chiat\Day, Leo Burnett and McCann-Erikson. It was six years ago that his focus moved from account management to exclusively re-engineering business development departments. Along with business conferences, Brent regulary guest lectures at Harvard, MIT, Wharton and Columbia business schools. He was also the chair of a New York young professionals organization tied to Fast Company Magazine and was the key force in building up its membership to over fifteen hundred. He is on the board of advisors for the Harvard Marketing Club and has been recognized for his achievements with invitations to participate in the Summit for Emerging Visionaries and State of the World Forum.