Soon after we moved into the Woodstock offices, there would be a major turning point and a challenging new entrepreneurial test for me.
A swashbuckling raconteur of an Englishman by the name of Thomas Boyd approached me with an opportunity to pitch for a major multinational, continent-wide account. The company was Philips. Philips was a biggie — a well-known, established, multinational technology brand with a market cap of about €35bn. Even though it had lost some of its lustre in recent times, it was one of those coveted brands every agency wanted to work with...
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