Eugene Secunda is an American academic who is a member of the faculty in the Department of Media, Culture & Communication at New York University.
He was communications director for both the Campaign to Save Grand Central Station and the annual New York Cares Coat Drive.
[citation needed] Secunda was with the J. Walter Thompson Company for 16 years, supervising a variety of advertising and public relations accounts in the U.S. and global markets, and as J. Walter Thompson's Senior Vice President, Director of World-wide Corporate Communications.
In 1980, he joined N. W. Ayer & Son International advertising agency in 1980 as Senior Vice President and Division Manager.
He has lived in Greenwich Village, New York City with his wife Shirley[9] for more than five decades and has two children, Ruthanne and Andrew.