Andy Polansky

Andy Polansky is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IPG DXTRA, a global collective of 28 specialty marketing firms anchored by Weber Shandwick, Golin, Octagon, FutureBrand and Jack Morton. Andy oversees IPG DXTRA's collaborative model and its highly specialized marketing firms, which operate across a variety of disciplines including public relations, sports and experiential marketing, brand consulting and digital marketing.

Andy also serves as Executive Chairman of Weber Shandwick, and was its CEO from 2012-2019.

Prior to his roles with IPG, Andy was a municipal reporter for the Bucks County Courier Times in Levittown, PA, a business and feature writer for the Princeton Packet in Princeton, NJ, and a sportswriter at The Trentonian in Trenton, NJ.

Andy sits on the Board of Directors for The Ad Council and the Board of Trustees for the VNA Health Group, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit independent providers of home health, hospice and community-based care.

Andy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) and sits on the TCNJ Foundation Board of Directors.