Bill Koenigsberg

Bill Koenigsberg founded Horizon Media in 1989 and today leads an agency with over $8.7 billion in client investments and more than 2,300 employees, Horizon is the largest privately-held media agency in the world, representing clients such as GEICO, Sprint, Capital One, Burger King, A+E Networks, Constellation Brands, STX Entertainment, UnitedHealth Group and LG Electronics to name a few.

Horizon has received numerous honors for creativity, innovation and marketing effectiveness. Mediapost named Horizon its 2018 Media Agency of the Year, and Horizon has previously been named Media Agency of the Year by Advertising Age, Adweek, Mediaweek and Brandweek. The agency has a culture first approach and is recognized as one of the Best places to work across publications such as Forbes, Fortune, Advertising Age, Adweek, Los Angeles Business Journal and Crain New York Business. Of particular note, Fortune recently named Horizon as one of the Best Places for Women to Work and named Horizon one of their 100 Best Places to Work for Diversity.

Bill has received numerous industry accolades for his vision and leadership including this most recent honor of being inducted into the AAF Hall of Fame. He was named Industry Legend by the Advertising Club of New York, has been honored on Adweek’s prestigious Power List, named to the 4A’s Advertising 100 list, honored as one of the Giants of Broadcasting and Electronic Arts by the IRTS Foundation, and recognized by Cynopsis as a Luminary, with its “Champion Award” in 2017. He was named to Variety’s Gotham 60: Influential New Yorkers in Entertainment and Media list in 2015. In 2014, he was inducted to the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, and in 2014, Bill was the first media executive to be named board chair of the 4A’s and is the only person to receive the prestigious Advertising Age Media Maven Award twice. He has also been honored as Media Executive of the Year by Mediaweek and featured as one of its top 50 most influential executives in the industry.

Philanthropy plays an important part of his life. He has been awarded the Reisenbach Foundation’s “Distinguished Citizen Award” for his contributing a safer New York. He was also honored with The National Kidney Foundation’s “Visionary Leader Award,” and City Harvest’s “the Star of the City Award” for this longstanding commitment and support, and Bill also actively supports the Michael J. Fox Foundation.