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Mac Hagel

President, Media and Client Lead
Publicis Groupe
Dallas

Mac Hagel is an accomplished professional with over two and half decades in the Media, Marketing, and Advertising industries leading high-profile Fortune 500 clients to achieve award winning campaigns and effective ROI, spanning multiple areas of Media Planning & Buying, Strategy & Branding, Customer Analytics, and Digital & CRM Marketing.

As President, Media & Client Lead of Publicis Constellation Groupe, Mac oversees the Samsung media team and is the Samsung Mobile LOB lead in the U.S market. Prior to this he spent several years in the Publicis network leading Spark Foundry and Zenith Media’s West coast offices servicing clients NBC Universal, XUMO, Farmers Insurance, 21st Century FOX, EPSON Printers & Robotics, and PIMCO Investments. He’s also led larger individual accounts inclusive of Time Warner Cable, Verizon, JP Morgan Chase, and United Airlines amongst several others. 

Mac is a board member of ThinkLA, a non-profit Media, Marketing, & Advertising Collective with a mission to connect, inspire and educate the LA marketing community. He has co-chaired and curated their annual ThinkLA Entertainment Breakfast for many years.

Mac holds a Marketing BS from The Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from DePaul University. In his spare time, he loves spending time with his family, wife Janine, daughter Harper and their two dogs Duke and Billie. He is also an avid tennis & pickleball player and enjoys being active in his community.