Posted: 11/24/03
Baylor names Kim Gaynor interim vice president
WACO–Kim Gaynor has been named interim vice president for university relations at Baylor University.
The interim post has been filled by Larry Brumley, associate vice president for university relations, since Feb. 1, when Vice President Stan Madden returned to the classroom.
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Gaynor has held a long career in advertising, most recently with Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, the largest advertising agency in the United States and the fifth-largest worldwide.
Gaynor earned the bachelor of business administration degree in marketing and finance in 1966 from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a member of the 1963 national championship football team. He began his career in 1967 in Cincinnati with Procter & Gamble Co. Two years later, he joined Foote, Cone & Belding Advertising in Los Angeles as assistant to the chairman. He rose to management supervisor and vice president, where he guided the agency's largest account, Mazda Motors of America, to become one of the fastest-selling brands in the U.S.
From 1975 to 1982, Gaynor served as senior vice president and director of client services for McCann Erickson Advertising in Houston. He returned to Austin in 1982 and spent the next five years as executive vice president and agency principal with GSD&M Advertising, a firm created by five entrepreneurs from the University of Texas.
In 1987, Gaynor joined Bozell/Dallas as executive vice president, chairman of the executive committee and director of client services. Three years later, he assumed leadership of Bozell's office in Detroit as executive vice president and general manager. He went on to serve as president of the firm's Chrysler Team USA and executive vice president of DaimlerChrysler USA and Mexico.
Gaynor's wife, Brenda, is a Baylor graduate. They have two children, Brandon, who is a sophomore at Baylor, and Morgan, who is in the fourth grade. The Gaynors reside in Amarillo.
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