These are the times that try men's souls. Chicks too.
Zyman Group. (Yeah, that Zyman.)
10 Former marketing execs and where they are now
1. Denis Beausejour
He stepped down as VP-marketing of Procter & Gamble Co. in 2000; in 2004 became pastor of the Mariemont Community church near Cincinnati.
2. Roy Bergold
The former VP-chief creative officer for McDonald’s USA opened an equestrian center in Payson, Ariz., last year.
3. Chris Clouser
Former chief global marketing officer for Burger King and CEO of the Minnesota Twins is now president of the Association of Tennis Professionals.
4. Mary Elizabeth Donaldson
The former marketing executive at Young & Rubicam, Sydney, Rapp Collins in Edinburgh and DDB, Melbourne, in May of this year became HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.
5. John Hommeyer
The former CMO of Pets.com, who commissioned the sock puppet that became an icon of dot-com-era excess and failure, in 2004 became VP of Clorox Co.’s laundry business this year after a stint as CMO of Hotwire.
6. Jim Mack
Resigned as chairman of Publicis Groupe’s Frankel in August 2003 to open Jemrose Vineyards, named for his and wife Gloria’s two daughters.
7. Muktesh ‘Micky’ Pant
Resigned as chief marketing officer of Reebok in February. Reportedly intended to return to his native India and start a yoga-related business.
8. Kirk Souder
The cancer survivor left as president-executive creative director of Publicis & Hal Riney, San Francisco, to get a masters degree in psychology.
9. Bill Westbrook
The retired president-creative director of Fallon, Minneapolis, runs the Hope & Glory Inn in Irvington, Va.
10. Sergio Zyman
The former chief marketing officer of Coca-Cola, known as “the Aya-Cola,” is now an author and head of the Zyman Group, which consults corporations on marketing matters.
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It appears only one went on to another gig where they will continue to be referred to as "Your Highness".
Heh. And those dane royals are prone to depression and cracked noble hearts and stuff so not much difference between yer average brand management meeting of today, either.
rpnri - the wicked cool tagline for Rhode Island's new "let's get hip to the kids" campaign
Yes, I should have made some witty Hamlet reference, "Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble..." and such. Speaking of which, my word verifun:
scpdwatr - Escapade Water: a good nickname for alcoholic beverages consumed prior to shenanigans of all sorts!
[Which further illustrates why I'm not in marketing]
Which further illustrates why "being in marketing" can be about as big a kiss of death to truth as one can find. (Sorry fellow marketers.)
bymdwrx - Bring your many dorks
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