“Recipe for success: Take risks. Stay on strategy. Be optimistic. Never stop learning. Lead by example.”
Fay Ferguson
Co-CEO
Advertising Visionary. A passionate, ambitious and empathetic leader, Fay Ferguson is a self-motivated risk-taker and a workaholic. She believes that good is not good enough and that one should always strive for greatness.
In 2004, Ferguson who is Co-CEO of Burrell Communications Group, orchestrated a management buy-out of the agency when founder Tom Burrell retired. She is focused on being successful, while holding on to her personal values and maintaining her family as a priority.
Fay has received numerous awards, including Chicago Advertising Woman of the Year, “Advertising Working Mother of the Year, Trailblazer Mom” and the Target Market News Advertising Executive of the Year MAAX award, to name a few.
Ferguson is active on several boards, including Perspectives Charter School, the Chicago Advertising Federation, The Chicago Network, the North Shore Chapter of the Links, Inc., the American Association of Advertising Agencies – Purple Forum and the Economic Club of Chicago. Fay earned a BA degree from Concordia College and an MBA from Indiana University.