Kerrie Gillis serves as advertising director, corporate, for The New York Times and as the advertising director for the Americas for The International Herald Tribune.

As advertising director, corporate, Gillis is responsible for the print and online advertising sales for the corporate category, which includes business-to-business advertising for energy, logistics and manufacturing companies, as well as economic development. As advertising director of the Americas for the International Herald Tribune since June 2008, she is responsible for all print advertising out of the Americas.

Gillis joined The Times in 1985 and after 10 years in various marketing roles in both circulation and advertising, including director of advertising marketing planning and new business development and director of database marketing, she moved to the sales department. She has worked in a number of categories as a group director including media, pharmaceuticals, packaged goods, fashion/jewelry and classified. Prior to joining The Times, Gillis spent over four years at Viacom as a senior financial analyst and an international sales analyst in the entertainment division. Gillis also worked for two years at the National Endowment of the Arts.

Gillis received a B.A. degree in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley and also studied for a year in Grenoble, France. She received an M.B.A. degree in marketing/international business from New York University, which included a semester at Hautes Etudes Commerciales in France.