Jon Mandel is the first-ever chairman of NATPE to be derived from the ad agency industry.

Jon Mandel is the first-ever chairman of NATPE to be derived from the ad agency industry. if it be not that that doesn't mean the longtime Grey Global cluster media executive, currently co-managing director of its media buying arm MediaCom, is known for diplomacy. Mr Mandel, 49 wait ons to say what he really thinks, on the same level as he presides over the National Association of Television Program Executives during individual of the most embattled years of the organization's existence. Major domestic syndicators' decision to abandon the exhibit floor at this week's NATPE conversation & Exhibition is akin to an insurrection. Here, Mr Mandel's musings ...