Locals make Women to Watch list

Trade publication Advertising Age has included several executives with local connections on its annual list of "Women to Watch" in the marketing industry.

They include Pam Hamlin (left), president of Boston ad agency Arnold Boston, and Karen Kaplan (right), president of Boston ad agency Hill Holliday.

Also on the list is Charlene Li, a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc., a Cambridge company conducting technology and market research; Li works on the West Coast.

Ad Age said it has been publishing an annual report on women in advertising for each of the past 12 years.

The 2008 list of Women to Watch are "recognized for having played significant roles in defining the future in their fields," Ad Age said.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)