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EXECUTIVE BOARD BIOS
Gisela Girard
Chair
Gisela is the 'Big Picture' visionary of Creative Civilization. Her experience, determination, and instinct allow her to stay ahead of the curve at all times. When clients need answers to the big questions, they turn to Gisela with full confidence that her guidance will never lead them astray. It has been suspected around the agency that Gisela can read minds because she always has the answers everybody is looking for.
After co-founding Creative Civilization in 1999, Gisela has led the development, implementation and management of marketing campaigns for agency clients. Gisela’s leadership can be found all around the San Antonio community on boards and committees including being a Founding Member of the Executive Women’s Golf Association (EWG) the board of trustees for the San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio Sports Foundation, Historical Centre Foundation and Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) Founding Committee.
Gisela’s commitment to her clients and colleagues plays a big role in promoting an open and inspiring atmosphere at Creative Civilization.
Jessica Pantanini
Chair-Elect
Jessica Pantanini serves as Chief Operations Officer (COO) for Bromley Communications.
As COO, Pantanini oversees integration and quality standards at the Agency's headquarters in San Antonio and satellite offices in Miami , New York , and Los Angeles .
Pantanini was named COO in 2004 after serving as Vice President and Director of Media Services at Bromley. In addition to leading her team on a number of blue chip accounts, she developed several of Bromley's innovative, proprietary media tools and became recognized as a national expert within the evolving Hispanic marketing industry.
Pantanini currently serves on the Board of the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies (AHAA), the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), as well as the Council for Research Excellence (CRE).
Before joining Bromley Communications, Pantanini worked in southern California for Noble & Associates. Pantanini managed the Noble media department, and moved to San Antonio in 1995 when Bromley acquired Noble & Associates. Prior to her position at Noble, Pantanini worked for Western International Media, now Initiative Media.
A native of California, Pantanini holds an associate degree in liberal arts with additional specialized studies in radio, television and film at California State University Northridge.
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