Weston Resident Named to Irish America's Business 100 List

Editor's note: The following is a press release from Arnold Worldwide.

Nationally known marketing and branding expert Fran Kelly has been named to
Irish America magazine’s Twenty-Sixth Annual Irish America Business 100. This is the second year in a row that Kelly, vice chairman of Arnold Worldwide, has been honored with inclusion to this prestigious list.

The magazine’s Business 100 is a celebration of Irish-American corporate success and includes 2012 Keynote Speaker Executive Chairman of the Ford Motor Company William Clay Ford, numerous CEOs, members of Top 10 Fortune 500 companies and of the Forbes Most Powerful Women in the World as honorees.

Kelly is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Business School. He joined Arnold in 1994 as chief marketing officer and helped the agency create campaigns for Volkswagen, Volvo, Titleist, Ocean Spray, Jack Daniels, Carnival Cruise Lines and Royal Caribbean as well as Progressive, truth®, New Balance, CVS, Hershey, Huntington Bank, Panasonic and many other great brands. Fran became president of the agency in 2002 and was named CEO in early 2006.

Fran and Heather Kelly, along with their twins, have been residents of Weston since 1987 and of Manchester-by-the Sea since 1983.