As always, the holiday season was a busy time for the direct response industry cocktail circuit. From coast to coast, revelers celebrated the end
of another year and looked ahead to 2013. The event
calendar was highlighted by the DRMA Winter Bash in
New York on Dec. 11, where nearly 400 industry insiders turned out to celebrate and salute Member of the
Year Nancy Lazkani of Icon Media Direct.
Response welcomes Mark
Sullivan of Viacom Media
Networks, the Winter
Bash’s title sponsor, to
the New York Beer Co.
Eric Arroyo of Murad
chats with hosts John
Cabrinha and Dan
Danielson at Mercury
Media’s annual
holiday soiree in
on Dec. 6.
BJ Fazeli of BJ Global Direct
and his wife, Wendy, celebrate
the opening of their Fazeli
Cellars tasting room in
Temecula, Calif., on Dec. 15.
the opening of their Fazeli
chats with hosts John
During the DRMA Winter Bash on Dec. 11 at New York Beer Co., Venable’s Jeff
Knowles, Ontel’s Amit Khubani and Louie Brofsky, Before the Stores’ Amar
Khubani, Cannella Response Television’s Caitlin Cooper, Ontel’s Roger Israni
and TELEBrands’ Shail Prasad share a smile.
Icon Media Direct’s Nancy Lazkani (third from right) celebrates her announcement
as DRMA Member of the Year on Dec. 11 in New York. Joining her are Response’s
Thomas Haire, her son Jeff, her husband Joe, her daughter Sara and Response’s John
Yarrington.
Six of the other nine nominees for the 2012 DRMA Member of the Year Award were also on hand at the Winter
Bash on Dec. 11 in New York, including Curtis Kleinman of Swipe Payment Solutions, James Diorio of Dial800,
Jane Schloth of OrderMotion, Gary Latz of a2b Ful;llment, Chuck Wilkins of Venable and Adam Warren of
OpenJar Concepts.
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Swipe Payment Solutions’ fall mixer
on Nov. 29 in Paci;c Palisades, Calif.,
welcomed more than 100 industry
insiders, including (above) Grand
Slam Direct’s Frank Battisti and Rob
Albert, and Moulton Logistics’ Loren
Crannel, as well as (at right) Broadcast
Communications Media’s Ron Guerra
and Doug Frankel, a2b Ful;llment’s
Debbie Skerly and Cannella Response
Television’s Sari Montrone.
