Campbell Marketing and Communications in Dearborn, a privately held marketing communications agency, has added four new managing partners.
Christopher Caris, Paul DeLano, Lincoln Hill, and Barbara McAllister join current managing partners David Losek, David Scheinberg, Gregory Shea, and Joseph Vandervest in the company’s ownership group. The four new managing partners are longtime members of the firm’s leadership team, with tenures ranging from 18 to 25 years at the agency.
The moves come on the heels of the 2023 retirement of longtime Kevin Kennedy, executive vice-president and managing partner at Campbell.
“Campbell has always been – since our founding 42 years ago – an owner-operated agency,” says David Scheinberg, chairman of Campbell. “To have these four long-time and highly esteemed leaders join the ranks of ‘hands on’ company ownership is a very proud and gratifying milestone.”
Caris, who joined Campbell in 1999, is an expert in automotive collision parts and crash repair. He has led Campbell’s original equipment manufacturer (OEM) support in this area for more than two decades and chairs multiple OEM roundtables on the topic. He was named vice president in 2016.
DeLano, an employee since 2006, is the firm’s chief financial officer. He originally joined the Campbell team as facilities manager before moving into the accounting and finance department. He was appointed comptroller in 2020 and vice-president of accounting and finance in 2022.
Hill joined the agency in 1999 as an intern in the motorsports group. He joined the creative team in 2007 and was appointed creative director in 2017. He was named vice president in 2022.
McAllister, an employee since 2001, is the agency’s COO since January 2024. She led all of Campbell’s work on behalf of Ford’s corporate citizenship efforts for nearly 15 years. She was named vice president in 2016.
