Preston Kelly President Chuck Kelly has been elected vice chair of Worldwide Partners, Inc. (WPI).  Based in Denver, Colo., WPI is the world’s largest owner-operated agency network made up of 95 agencies employing 4,700 people in 142 offices located in 52 countries across Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North America.

Preston Kelly, formerly Kerker, Inc., has been a partner agency of WPI since 1996. In addition to his “day job” as president of the full-service agency Preston Kelly, as vice chairman of WPI, Kelly will be responsible for strategic planning and general leadership of the network of independent agencies with combined capitalized billings of more than $4.1 billion.

“I’m humbled by this vote of confidence. But I’m more excited about what this opportunity presents,” Kelly said. “With the collective strength of the world’s most fiercely independent agencies– like Kirshenbaum Bond in New York, Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners in California and new representation in China, India and Latin America — WPI is poised to make a significant impact on all the major continents. My role will be to help channel those global resources to build WPI’s leadership position throughout the world.”

About WPI
Founded in 1938, WPI is the world’s largest owner-operated agency network made up of 95 agencies employing 4,700 people in 142 offices located in 52 countries across Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North America.
WPI agencies manage over $4.1 billion in advertising expenditures along with a wide range of international business-to-consumer and business-to-business clients, including Avon Global Fragrance, Ciba Vision, Guardian Industries, Lehman Brothers, Caterpillar, Walden University, Hormel Foods, and Fu Sheng Group.

About Preston Kelly
Preston Kelly is a full-service agency creating iconic ideas through advertising, interactive, design, direct marketing and promotion, strategy and research for a broad range of local, national and global clients.  Preston Kelly clients include Taco John’s, Roundy’s Supermarkets, Inc., Mall of America, HealthPartners, Deluxe, Piper Jaffray, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P., United Sugars, Minnesota Zoo, Venture Bank and the YMCA.  For more information about Preston Kelly, visit www.prestonkelly.com.  Preston Kelly recently moved its headquarters to the historic Minneapolis Fire Barn at 222 1st Avenue NE.