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Henry

Fellowship year: 1st year (2012)
Current role & company: Account Manager, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising
Brands you've worked on: BT, Bausch + Lomb, Bacardi, Bombay Sapphire, KitKat, BP
Highlight of Fellowship: Meeting Jess Ennis and then beating her on a long jump game we’d created for a client…!
One piece of advice: Be interested, smile and say yes.

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Michael

Fellowship year: 3rd year (2008)
Current role & company: Account Manager, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising
Brands you've worked on: Motorola, British Airways, Brazilian Tourist Board, Gaucho, 2ergo and Zebra Technologies
Highlight of Fellowship: My first TV shoot at Wembley Stadium
One piece of advice: Get involved in anything, everything and whatever you can find in between the two

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Adam

Fellowship year: 1st year Planning (2011)
Current role & company: Planner, Coley Porter Bell
Brands you've worked on: Pernod Ricard - Beefeater and Olmeca Tequila
Highlight of Fellowship: Presenting brand and business research to a roomful of the most senior heads of the Ogilvy world, and eating sandwiches with Rory Sutherland (yes, he actually is like that in real life)
One piece of advice: Bring a pen. And paper probably, too

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Tom

Fellowship year: 3rd year (2008)
Current role & company: Account Manager, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising
Brands you've worked on: British Airways, British American Tobacco, East London Buzzstops, Life Plus, Kodak, Grant Thornton, Hellmann’s
Highlight of Fellowship: There are three. Learning about digital direct marketing in OgilvyOne; working on the successful Grant Thornton pitch; the British Airways Christmas party 2009 – an utter warzone.
One piece of advice: When you have a briefing with your Creative Director – the very first one on your own – don’t think you can “wing it”. You can’t. And talk to people face-to-face more than you phone or email them.

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Jenni

Fellowship year: 1st year (2010)
Current role & company: Account Executive, OgilvyOne
Brands you've worked on: American Express (Amex)
Highlight of Fellowship: Seeing one my ads for the first time in the Evening Standard on the tube home. And going to the premiere of The Skin I Live In at Somerset House (thank you Amex).
One piece of advice: Listen lots and write it down.

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Hugo

Fellowship year: 2nd year (2009)
Current role & company: Account Executive, OgilvyOne
Brands you've worked on: Cisco, Nestle, AMEX and UPS and Ogilvy itself
Highlight of Fellowship: Too many to choose from!
One piece of advice: Be yourself. There will be plenty of people who aren’t so you should stand out.

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Elaine

Fellowship year: 1st year (2010)
Current role & company: Account Executive, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising
Brands you've worked on: Dove
Highlight of Fellowship: Having the opportunity to work directly with and learn from a myriad of inspiring people in the industry, from bright creatives and compelling story-tellers to business buffs and management machines.
One piece of advice: Place a finger under your nose when you sneeze – it works wonders.

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Cressida

Fellowship year: 2nd Year (2009)
Current role & company: Account Manager, Coley Porter Bell
Brands you've worked on: American Express, Coutts, Hellmann’s, Olmeca, Lumesse, Monier
Highlight of Fellowship: Fellow fellows
One piece of advice: Work experience is a great place to start

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Nick

Fellowship year: 1st year (2010)
Current role & company: Ogilvy PR – 360 Digital Influence Team
Brands you've worked on: Ford, Guinness, FremantleMedia, BP, Government of Mexico, IBM
Highlight of Fellowship: Being on the winning pitch teams that presented to Diageo for both the Guinness and Captain Morgan businesses
One piece of advice: Find something you’re really interested in, and become the go-to person for this within the company you are in.

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Kate

Fellowship year: 2nd Year (2009)
Current role & company: Account Executive, OgilvyOne
Brands you've worked on: Zebra Technologies, IBM, Carbon Disclosure Project, FremantleMedia, 2ergo
Highlight of Fellowship: Shooting the DRTV advert for Bupa. I can’t reveal exactly what this entailed as it’s not on air yet but I did experience the joy of seeing a 66 year old lady on a surfboard which in itself made my whole day!
One piece of advice: Be yourself.

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Jay

Fellowship year: 3rd year (2008)
Current role & company: Account Manager, Ogilvy Common Health, Digital Team
Brands you've worked on: American Express, Ford & Bayer
Highlight of Fellowship: Being given the responsibility to manage a TV shoot for Ford’s sponsorship of football on Sky Sports. I saw the project through from the initial creative concepts to the actual shoot (and everything in between).
One piece of advice: Have an opinion on everything and don’t underestimate the importance of banter.

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AJ

Fellowship year: 2nd Year (2010)
Current role & company: Account Manager, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising
Brands you've worked on: Unilever, Comfort Fabric Conditioner, O&M Digital Council
Highlight of Fellowship: Resourcefulness training, seeing my first advert live on TV and helping to create, organise and roll out the Ogilvy Silicon Roundabout Bus Tour (Shoreditch is about much more than skinny jeans and fixie bikes!)
One piece of advice: Be a sponge – inspiration and information is everywhere. Be opinionated – always stick up for an idea you believe in & lastly and most importantly…Don’t let the knock backs get you down. Perseverance is key.

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Alexandra

Fellowship year: 1st year (2010)
Current role & company: Account Executive, OgilvyOne
Brands you've worked on: British Airways
Highlight of Fellowship: Resourcefulness training, seeing my microsite go live in 15 different countries and performing excellently.
One piece of advice: Be a sponge! Soak it all up and make the best out of it.

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Hollie

Fellowship year: 2007-2010
Current role & company: Account Manager, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising
How has the fellowship helped you?: When I started out I knew I wanted to work in communications, but wasn’t sure where exactly. I actually thought PR might be for me. The Fellowship allowed me to work across a range of disciplines, gain a huge amount of experience which then helped me realise that advertising was for me… so here I am
What have you done since?: My last year of the Fellowship was in Advertising and I loved it, so I stayed put but swapped a few accounts. I now work on Toblerone and Barbie. Ogilvy gives you plenty of opportunities to do stuff beyond your day job. So I’ve helped create our first agency magazine, redecorated part of the office (seriously), been involved in Ogilvy Labs bits and bobs, and have just launched the Ogilvy Gallery which is now home to artwork created by us and looks fricking awesome if I do say so myself
One piece of advice: Visit Ogilvy.co.uk. I know it sounds obvious, but the amount of times I’ve interviewed someone and they can’t even name one of our campaigns... Instant ‘no’. So do your research, know what we do, know which campaigns you like and don’t be afraid to have an opinion on our work.

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Rachael

Fellowship year: Joined September 2005
Current role & company: Account Director, Ogilvy PR in New York
How has the fellowship helped you?: The fellowship helped me to understand the whole marketing mix and helped me to choose the right career path for me. When I graduated I applied for a range of marketing and advertising jobs, but no PR jobs, PR always appealed but I wasn’t sure it was right for me. On the fellowship I fell in love with PR and have never looked back. My cross discipline experience has been really helpful, I not only understand what the ad guys are talking about, but I can look at client problems in a more channel neutral way.
What have you done since?: After I completed my last placement in May 2007 I took up a permanent position in Ogilvy PR. I worked in the London office for four years on everything from Unilever laundry products to a low carbon restaurant and luxury home interiors brand. I got a great grounding in the PR discipline, getting to grips with media relations, events, digital influence and PR strategy. In August 2011 I transferred to Ogilvy PR’s New York office.
One piece of advice: Seize every opportunity, if you want to do something, ask, people will usually try to help you make it happen. And don’t pre-judge your placements or your clients, some of the best, most interesting and rewarding projects I have worked on were the ones that didn’t sound very glamorous at first.

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Paul

Fellowship year: I joined O&M London as a graduate trainee in 1987
Current role & company: CEO for O&M Asia Pacific
How has the fellowship helped you?: The basic grounding in all disciplines and departments helped us to understand the real value and contribution of the agency to the clients business - and more importantly meant we hit the ground running when assigned to our accounts. It also created some very long lasting friendships.
What have you done since?: Answering this question makes me feel old :-), I worked with O&M London till 1990 - then moved to Asia with Lintas where I worked in Thailand (2 years) and South Korea (2 years). I was then transferred to Colombia - and remember saying good-bye to my parents on the way to the airport when the news of the shooting of the Colombian defender that had scored an own goal in the world cup came through - my father said 'whatever you do don't lose an account !“ After 18 months in Bogota I moved to Sao Paulo where I was CSD for Lintas for 5 years before joining Y&R as the MD. From there I was part of the start up of Brazil's first Free ISP - an incredible learning experience. In late 2003 Miles Young invited me back to Ogilvy to come to Hong Kong to run the gbm for Asia. From there in 2006 I ran O&M Advertising in Asia and then in late 2008 became the regional CEO.
One piece of advice: I think David said it best: "Raise your sights ! Blaze new trails !! Compete with the immortals !!!"
One last thing : remember Ogilvy is the best network in the world - use it - travel - be adventurous .

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Rory

Fellowship year: The year following my joining OgilvyOne in September 1988
Current role & company: Vice Chairman, Ogilvy Group London
How has the fellowship helped you?: Immeasurably. Even 20 years on, it is immensely valuably to have had some experience, however fleeting, of most of the departments in the agency.
What have you done since?: Been a Planner for two years, 20 years as a copywriter, head of copy, creative director, and so forth. I am still at heart a copywriter before all else.
One piece of advice: Become good at two or more things. However good you are at one thing, there is someone in the world better at it than you. But if you are really quite good at several things, you may just be irreplaceable.

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Laurie

Fellowship year: 1st year (2010)
Current role & company: Planner, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising
Brands you've worked on: Dove, UNICEF, Huggies
Highlight of Fellowship: The people. Being able to work with and around intelligent and kind planners has already had a huge influence on me.
One piece of advice: If you put your hand up to do something, follow through on it!

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Luke

Fellowship year: 1st year (2011)
Current role & company: Account Executive, Ogilvy One
Brands you've worked on: American Express
Highlight of Fellowship: Our training was brilliant. It was a complete immersion into everything communications looked at with a pair of Ogilvy glasses on (these are handed out when you sign your contract).
One piece of advice: Have an opinion, be friendly and be interested in everything. There are so many people to learn from and so much you get access to so make as much of it as you can.

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Pete

Fellowship year
Current role & company: Account Executive, Ogilvy PR
Brands you've worked on: IBM, Chengdu Tourism, American Express, and loads of New Business pitches.
Highlight of Fellowship: Having my excited first day nerves eased by meeting the Group Chairman first thing in the morning, him then describing the Fellows as his 'secret ninja force'.
One piece of advice: Don't put in an email what you can say better and faster in person, but equally, resist then using the phrases 'touch base', 'going forward' and 'deep dive' all in one sentence. It's a tricky balance.

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Rebecca

Fellowship year: 1st year (2011)
Current role & company: Account Executive, Ogilvy One
Brands you've worked on: British Airways
Highlight of Fellowship: Blagging my way on stage at the Royal Opera House as part of 'resourcefulness training'. Debating behavioural economics with Rory over lunch.
One piece of advice: Take time out to feed your brain and inspire yourself, whether that's heading to an exhibition at the V&A or watching a trashy 80's movie.You never know when you'll need to draw on something weird and wonderful for a fresh idea.

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Savine

Fellowship year: 1st year (2012)
Current role & company: Account Executive, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising
Brands you've worked on: BP
Highlight of Fellowship: Getting to know my fellow fellows, resourcefulness training, and just generally being able to work on an Olympic Sponsor account in 2012!
One piece of advice: Don't be afraid to ask questions. Write it down! And by 'it' I mean everything and anything that seems even vaguely useful, it probably will be.

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Victoria

Fellowship year

1st year (2011)

Current role & company

Planner, Ogilvy Action

Brands you've worked on

S C Johnson

Highlight of Fellowship

Meeting such a huge amount of ludicrously interesting people. However this does come with the unfortunate self-realisation that I am comparably quite boring.

Just kidding.

One piece of advice

If you have something to say, say it – don’t just keep quiet. It might actually turn out to be useful!

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William

Fellowship year: 1st year (2011)
Current role & company: Planner, Ogilvy One
Brands you've worked on: BA and BT
Highlight of Fellowship: Meeting a lot of interesting people
One piece of advice: Be proactive. Don't wait for work or projects to be given to you, find them! Also, the lifts on the 9th floor stop working after 6.30pm, so don't stand in the corridor for 5 minutes waiting for one.

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Zoe

Fellowship year: 1st year
Current role & company: Operations Executive, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising
Brands you've worked on: SC Johnson
Highlight of Fellowship: Filming and editing our very own Fellowship film, Rory Sutherland's talk and creative inspiration day
One piece of advice: Be curious :)

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Luke

Pete

Rebecca

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