Patrick J. O'Rahilly

President & CEO, Aspen Marketing Services

Patrick J. O'Rahilly is President & CEO of Aspen Marketing Services. For more than 20 years, Pat has provided strategic leadership and counsel for a diverse portfolio of some of the world's leading brands. Appointed to this role in 2002, Pat has led Aspen's executive leadership team to create award-winning campaigns for many Fortune 100 clients.

His entrepreneurial spirit has driven the agency's exponential growth, significantly broadening the breadth and depth of Aspen's expansive service offerings of online and offline capabilities to include digital, direct, advanced analytics, word-of-mouth, experiential, event, promotional and multi-cultural marketing. He has cultivated many long-lasting relationships with clients in a variety of verticals such as automotive, telecommunications, retail, financial, consumer packaged goods and other industries.

Pat began his career in marketing and retail sales as the President of JP Automotive Group, a mega-dealer automotive company with seven dealerships and thirteen franchises. From there, prior to his appointment as President & CEO, Pat founded and served as managing director of Creative Marketing International (CMI), a firm that specialized in automotive marketing. CMI grew quickly through word-of-mouth as automotive dealers recognized the measureable impact of Pat's unique customer-focused approach to their business. Throughout his career, Pat has been recognized for his contributions and industry leadership, including being named "Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year" by the State of Illinois in 1994 and more recently as Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2008.

Pat looks forward to the possibilities and opportunities that lie ahead for Aspen following Epsilon's recent acquisition of the 25-year-old agency. The acquisition has already bolstered Aspen's established status as the largest privately held marketing agency to a leading global marketing services agency.