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Goodbye Ogilvy28.02.10
A lot’s happened since my last update. Last time I was talking about beginning at Ogilvy, and this time I’m already saying goodbye to Ogilvy. For the right reasons of course. Exactly a month ago, I went to this AdWeek party and met Bianca. She’s an account person at Cossette, specifically the account person for the Cannes winning Pizza Pop ad last year. Initially a drunk conversation talking about how much we love which part of NY and how we both have plans to visit the same parts Spain this year, she ended up giving me her card and told me to email her. So I did, and 2 weeks later I was meeting Nimy – CW who’s been without an AD partner for a good chunk of time. And two days later, that Wednesday morning I was meeting Matt Litzinger, the VP/CD at Cossette. I was offered a position to team with Nimy. I took that weekend to think about it.
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Fun culture, young people, the office is cool, a good size agency – just big enough with cool clients and not so big it takes away from the creative – the place and people reminds me of Carmichael Lynch. Anyway, Matt really appreciated the work in my book and thinks I’d be a perfect fit to the agency. Nimy’s been in the business for 2 3 years, is hungry for great work, and definitely feels like a guy I can work well with. And its perfect timing as my internship is coming to the end of its 3 months.
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By Friday night I’ve decided and told Katie, Tessa, and Lydia (who I was visiting in Chicago that weekend), this was it, I’m going to take the offer, and by Monday I signed the papers and am officially one of the “People from COSSETTE”. I start on the 8th meaning the coming week will be my last at Ogilvy. (Nonetheless, Ogilvy’s been great, it was a real ass kicking to ultimate busy agency life, and meeting with Nancy Vonk was a treat every time – learnt so much.)
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So much more to mention, and about my trip to Chicago (once I get the pictures processed).