ROGER B. BARON is Senior Vice President, Director of Media Research at Foote, Cone & Belding, Chicago. He received a B.A. in Communications and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in Telecommunications at the University of Southern California. Following grad school he spent three years on active duty in the Navy, retiring with the rank of Captain in the Naval Reserve. His professional experience includes five years at Leo Burnett in media research and as a media planner and supervisor on the Kellogg cereal account. He then spent twelve years at D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, San Francisco - the last four as VP/Media Director. He came back to Chicago in 1987. Mr. Baron is active in the Advertising Research Foundation. He is a past president of the Media Research Club of Chicago. Baron is an accomplished computer programmer, and has developed several computer models for media planning. He is married and has two adult sons. In his spare time he reads, works around the house, and is an opera and (beginning) Civil War buff.
