Meet The Principals of The Global Marketer LLC

Amie Smith Hughes, Editorial Director

Ms. Hughes combines a global perspective with outstanding editorial skills, extensive Internet expertise and hands-on experience with a variety of marketing-industry organizations. She is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and holds a master's degree in linguistics from Boston University. A resident of New York, she has lived in the U.K. and Italy and travels throughout the world.

A co-founder and partner in The Global Marketer, she has worked as a magazine writer, foreign correspondent, agency account executive and awards program developer since 1990. Most recently she served as Executive Director of the Marketing Agencies Association Worldwide while serving as Awards Chairman for the organization's GLOBES Awards program.

Kerry E. Smith, Publisher

Mr. Smith brings nearly 30 years of marketing and communications experience to the development of The Global Marketer. He is a graduate of New York University and attended John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He has worked on the client and agency sides of advertising, direct marketing, promotion marketing and public relations. A former news reporter, he has managed campaigns, produced video documentaries, written speeches and edited corporate annual reports.

Mr. Smith is the founder and former publisher of PROMO, the U.S.-based marketing magazine, where he developed the PROMO EXPO trade show and traveled the world establishing media partnerships in 11 countries to produce the World PRO Awards. After selling his company to Primedia Corp. in 1996, he moved the international side of the PROs to the Marketing Agencies Association Worldwide to form the GLOBES Awards for excellence in marketing. Mr. Smith has been honored by MAA Worldwide as Marketing Professional of the Year and continues to serve the MAA in an advisory capacity.