2018 Hot List

Awards May 22, 2018

2018 Hot List

Meet the new stars shaking up the promo market with their ambition, empathy and passion to be the very best.

Bold, brash and beautiful, this year’s Hot Listers represent an exclusive club of 20 top performers who are elevating the industry with new ideas and the guts to act on them. The Hot List is also, for the first-time ever, a measure of true up-and-coming talent – the 2018 group only includes people who’ve been in the promo industry for five years or less.

Let it be known, by the way, that this isn’t just a bunch of suave salespeople that are good at scoring orders. Our list features lawyers, marketing execs, product designers and second-career standouts, too. It’s made up of people who are idealists at heart, but pragmatists in purpose, with the uncommon will to eschew the way things have always been done in the promo world. To that, we say kudos.

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No doubt, with our 2018 criteria, it makes sense that our Hot Listers skew young and hip. It also makes sense that there’s some international flair to our bloody awesome group, eh. We looked far and wide, north and south, and across the pond to identify deserving winners.

Taken as a whole, this year’s Hot List is meant to offer a glimpse at our industry’s potential. Paced by these prodigies, the present and future of promo is looking bright.

2018 Hot List

Sean Kurtzman

Eric Simsolo

Katelyn Aumock

Chris Arvay

Bjorn Rheborg

Emily Delmarco

Meghan Falkner

Rory Young

Elli Chemel

Jessica Ibsen

Kevin Mullaney

Mason Linn

James Przybyszewski

Joshua White

Jacques Marais

Ryan Conant

Dane Negrey

Alex Webb

Emma Reynolds

Grant Mayan