August 20: Paul Knapp, CEO/Principal of Young & Laramore Advertising and EchoPoint Media Rethink 65/70 Coalition
Join us next week (in the 2nd floor ballroom) as we hear from Paul Knapp. Paul is the CEO/Principal of Young & Laramore Advertising and EchoPoint Media. Young & Laramore is a national, full-service advertising agency based in Indianapolis serving a variety of national consumer brands. Paul helped create EchoPoint Media in 1998, a division of Y&L, and it has become the largest media planning and buying agency in the state of Indiana. Paul is also Managing Partner of School 9, LLC, which owns the historic former Public School No. 9 in Lockerbie Square along Interstate 65/70, now serving as an office building.
Paul has served on a variety of civic boards over the years including Worldwide Partners, Inc., a Denver-based global network of independent advertising agencies. He has served for over ten years on the board of Building Tomorrow, Inc., an Indianapolis-based non-profit that has built nearly 90 primary schools in rural Uganda striving to provide quality education to un-schooled children in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Responding to the news that Interstates 65 and 70 in downtown Indianapolis would be completely reconstructed in the coming years, Paul joined with other concerned businesses, civic organizations, and citizens to form the Rethink 65/70 Coalition in January 2018 and has served as one of its leaders ever since. Paul will give us an overview of what INDOT plans on replacing and, hopefully, open our eyes to the enormous opportunity ahead of us with the reconstruction that will take place over the next ten years.
All are welcome at Rotary programs. The lunch buffet opens at Ivy Tech Culinary and Conference Center at 11:45 a.m. and the program runs 12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. See you there!
