{"id":2173,"date":"2016-06-06T13:38:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T13:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asi2.wpenginepowered.com\/uncategorized\/asis-counselor-magazine-names-industrys-most-powerful-people\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:11:19","slug":"asis-counselor-magazine-names-industrys-most-powerful-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asicentral.com\/press-releases\/asis-counselor-magazine-names-industrys-most-powerful-people\/","title":{"rendered":"ASI’s Counselor Magazine Names Industry’s Most Powerful People"},"content":{"rendered":"

HALO CEO Marc Simon captures No. 1 spot; 11 newcomers hit list<\/p>\n

TREVOSE, PA – September 17, 2013 – <\/strong>The Advertising Specialty Institute\u00ae<\/sup> (ASI) today released the names of the most influential business leaders in the promotional products industry with the release of the 2013 Counselor<\/em>\u00ae<\/sup><\/em> Power 50 list<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Marc Simon, CEO of Top 40 distributor HALO Branded Solutions, jumped from the No. 6 slot last year to No. 1 on the 2013 list. Simon led an impressive 17% growth at HALO and received very high influence scores from his fellow Power 50 members.<\/p>\n

ASI recognized the high-ranking executives Monday night at the seventh annual ASI Power Summit, held this year in Park City, Utah and attended by entrepreneurs, multi-national CEOs and small business owners throughout the $19.4 billion promotional products industry, which has posted 14 straight quarters of earnings growth and is on track to hit record-breaking sales of $20 billion by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo our industry, the Counselor<\/em> Power 50 list is as significant as the Time<\/em> 100,\u201d Timothy M. Andrews, president and chief executive officer of ASI said at a celebratory dinner. \u201cBut the Power 50 list is not a dusty old inventory of past accomplishments. It\u2019s a living, breathing document of the here and now \u2013 as well as a blueprint of our future. This year, twice as many new people made the list as the year before. The one constant is that everyone is, in some significant way, a leader. If your peers look to you for advice, for straight talk, for inspiration and innovation, in good times and bad, chances are, you\u2019re a leader. And you\u2019re either on the Power 50 list or on your way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Published 13 times a year by ASI, the Jesse H. Neal award-winning Counselor <\/em>magazine has served as the voice of the promotional products industry for nearly 60 years. The magazine has recognized the industry\u2019s Power 50 every year since 2006.<\/p>\n

The rankings of the most influential executives in today\u2019s ad specialty market is determined by a panel of experts from throughout the industry and from Counselor<\/em> magazine, along with results of a survey of the industry and the Power 50 themselves that rates whether each person on last year\u2019s list has gained or lost influence over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n

The top-ranked executives on the 2013 Counselor<\/em> Power 50 list are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Marc Simon, HALO Branded Solutions (asi\/356000<\/em>)<\/li>\n
  2. Marty Lott & Jeremy Lott, SanMar (asi\/84863<\/em>)<\/li>\n
  3. Michael Bernstein & David Nicholson, Polyconcept<\/li>\n
  4. Kevin Lyons-Tarr, 4imprint (asi\/197045<\/em>)<\/li>\n
  5. Greg Muzzillo & Vera Muzzillo, Proforma (asi\/300094<\/em>)<\/li>\n
  6. Eric Bensussen & Jay Deutsch, BDA (asi\/137616<\/em>)<\/li>\n
  7. Gene Geiger & Jo-an Lantz, Geiger (asi\/202900<\/em>)<\/li>\n
  8. Rich Witaszak, Staples Promotional Products (asi\/120601<\/em>)<\/li>\n
  9. Jonathan Isaacson, Gemline (asi\/56070<\/em>)<\/li>\n
  10. David Woods, AIA Corporation (asi\/109480<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Power 50 list includes 11 newcomers:<\/p>\n