Carl Spielvogel is the Chairman and CEO of Carl Spielvogel Associates, Inc.

Education:
BBA, Baruch College

Personal:
Married to Barbaralee Diamonstein Spielvogel

Background:
Earlier, Mr. Spielvogel was Chairman and CEO of Backer SpielvogelBates Worldwide, Inc., one of the world's largest marketing and advertising communications companies. Until 1980, Mr. Spielvogel was vice chairman and a member of the executive committee and the board of directors of the Interpublic Group, with which he was associated for twenty years. Before joining Interpublic's parent company in 1972, he was chairman of the executive committee and executive vice president and general manager of McCann-Erickson, Inc., Interpublic's largest company.

From October 1994 until April 1997, Mr. Spielvogel was chairman and chief executive officer of the United Auto Group, Inc., then the nations' largest publicly owned dealership group, with sales approximating $4 billion. Mr. Spielvogel led the turnaround of this previously unprofitable company: he restructured it, renamed it and was the first to obtain approval from auto manufacturers to take this type of company public.

From 2000 to 2001, he served as U.S. Ambassador to the SlovakRepublic, based in Bratislava, Slovakia.

He began his working career as a reporter, and as a six-times-a-week columnist for The New York Times. He had started as a copyboy for the News Department.

In 1995, he was appointed by President Clinton, and approved by the U.S. Senate, to the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors, which is responsible for Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Voice of Asia, Radio Marti, Worldnet, and all the other non-military "voices" of the UnitedStates Government. In 1998, he was appointed a fellow at The Center for Business and Government, at The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and member of the Board of the Columbia University Institute for the Study of Europe. Active for thirtyyears in the New York State Democratic Party, he has served as Chairman of its Board of Trustees.  He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Council of American Ambassadors.

Mr. Spielvogel was on the board of directors of Hasbro, Inc., and Barneys New York. He has been a member of the board of directors of CBS/ MarketWatch.com, Inc.; Interpublic; Josephson International; Foamex, Inc.; the United Auto Group; Culligan Water Technologies; and Alliant Foodservices, Inc. In 1997, he was named Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Financial Times, the leading global and financial newspaper. He is currently on the Board of Interactive Data Corp., Inc., and Apollo Investment Corp. He is chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Intermedia Advertising Group, Inc., a research and technology company.

Mr. Spielvogel is currently involved in numerous civic and cultural organizations: a member of the board of trustees, and former chairman of the business committee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art; a member of the board of trustees and the executive committee of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; a former member ofthe board of trustees of Mt. Sinai Hospital for 20 years; a former member of theboard of the Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York, Inc.; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; member of the board of trustees of the Institute for the Study of Europe, at Columbia University; a member of the Executive Committeeof the Council of American Ambassadors and a member of the executive committee and the board of trustees of the Asia Society. He is also a member of the board of trustees of Eureka Communities, which works to rebuild depressed inner-city neighborhoods across the nation, "one leader at a time."

In 1999, Mr. Spielvogel received the humanitarian award from H.E.L.P, which provides transitional housing for the homeless. He has been a member of the International Advisory Board of the Business Council for the United Nations; the Board of the International Tennis Hall of Fame; the Municipal Art Society; the Board of Bennington College; the Board of the New York State Council for the Humanities;and the Board of the International Media Fund. 

A past President of the board of trustees of the Baruch College Fund, he was the recipient of an honorary LL.D. degree from Baruch in 1987, and was the recipient in June 1990 of Baruch's Distinguished Alumnus Award for Outstanding Career Accomplishment. In September 1992, Baruch inaugurated an annual lecture series in Mr. Spielvogel's honor entitled, "The Carl Spielvogel Lecture Series on Global Marketing Communications." In 1998, he was elected to the City College Communications Hall of Fame.