A short little quiz for your amusement:
1. I was voted the "Marketer of the Year" in 2008. I won hundreds of votes (36% of the total) of marketers, agency heads and marketing-services vendors gathered at the Association of National Advertisers' annual conference, beating out Apple's 27% and Zappo's 14%. Linda Clarizio, president of AOL's Platform A, the sponsor of the opening-night dinner attended by 750 where the votes were cast said of me, "I think he did a great job of going from a relative unknown to a household name ..."
2. One business executive who I admire is Frederick Smith, founder of FedEx. Smith was John McCain's finance chair in the 2008 election. FedEx is a non-union company which, through contributions to many members of Congress, managed to get a special exemption from Congress in 1996 that banned the Teamsters from organizing FedEx workers. At the time, Ted Kennedy and Paul Simon vehemently denounced the pay off.
Updated by accumbens at Sun Apr 17, 2011 at 10:27 PM EDT
Update: And the correct answer is Barack Obama. slinkerwink and one other win the prize - another chance to vote for him in 2012.