Kevin Flynn, former senior marketing executive at Finish Line Inc., has been named president of Caldwell VanRiper, the advertising and public relations agency.

Flynn spent 16 years in various marketing roles at Finish Line. For 10 years, Flynn served as senior vice president, marketing, where he was responsible for all marketing, point-of-purchase, advertising, promotion, customer loyalty, research and public relations for the company. Prior to his Finish Line tenure, Flynn was an ad executive at Chicago-based Leo Burnett, USA, where he worked on campaigns for national clients including McDonalds, Kellogg’s and Tropicana.

From 1992-1994, Flynn served as assistant media director at Caldwell VanRiper, returning to the agency in August as vice president, director of account services.