John Partilla is CEO of Screenvision Media, a premier cinema, video, and media organization. Screenvision, the innovation leader in cinema advertising, provides premium marketing and media solutions for advertisers and comprehensive representation of the cinema advertising interests of its theatrical exhibitor partners.
Prior to joining Screenvision Media, Mr. John Partilla served as CEO of Olson Group, and EVP, Digital Practice Lead, of ICF International. Under his leadership, Olson Group achieved double-digit growth annually. By the time it was acquired by ICF International in 2014, he had grown the bottom line 20% and the Olson Group had become the third-largest independent digital agency in the United States. After the merger, he became the head of ICF's Digital Services Group, putting him in charge of more than 1,000 employees.
His 30-year career has spanned across digital, media, and advertising sectors -- he’s held varied, and increasingly senior leadership roles including Chief Operating Officer of Dentsu Network West; President, Global Media Sales of Clear Channel Communications; and President, Global Media Group of Time Warner. Prior to his media sector experience, Mr. John Partilla spent 18 years on the agency side of the business, rising to Managing Partner and Executive Vice President of Young and Rubicam. He was also the founder and CEO of Y&R’s Brand Buzz, a digitally driven agency that helped pioneer digital practices and persuasion in its 10-year lifecycle.
John Partilla lead ICF International’s Digital Services Group, the 1,000+ person digital transformation agency with nine offices across North America.
The Digital Services Group represents a new breed of end-to-end agency offerings, with the ability to digitally transform companies by guiding brands from informed insight, strategy, customer targeting, and creative communications development through deep technical delivery.
The Digital Services Group offers a unique suite of omnichannel enablement and digital marketing solutions: management and digital consulting, advertising and design, 1to1, PR, social, content, business process improvement, portal solutions, e-commerce, service-oriented architecture, robust analytics and business intelligence.
John Partilla continued through December 2015 as Chief Executive Officer of Olson Group, overseeing the 500+-person, next-generation agency with seven offices across North America. Olson is a digitally driven, full service, omnichannel agency, with a deep digital core and vertical expertise in advertising, 1to1, PR, social, content, mobile and design, that became part of the ICF Digital Services Group, effective December, 2014.
In the three year period that John Partilla lead Olson Group as current CEO, Olson grew more than 24% topline, and 20% bottom line, becoming the third-largest independent digital agency in the U.S. before being acquired by ICF International at the end of 2014.