Deutsch LA has hired Duncan Houldsworth as EVP, executive director of Data Strategy. He officially joined the agency on January 26, reporting to 20-year agency veteran and partner Kyle Acquistapace.
Duncan will lead Deutsch LA’s data strategy and analytics team, working across all clients on the agency’s roster, including Sprint, VW, and Taco Bell. Duncan has more than 18 years of experience in both the UK and the US working for major service providers Experian, IRI, Omnicom, and Time Warner Cable. Duncan will lead Deutsch LA’s multi-disciplinary data strategy team as they continue to grow and deliver innovative approaches to digital analytics and marketing science.
Before joining Deutsch, Duncan was a market research and strategic insights consultant, working with Fortune 100 companies in financial services, media, and telecommunications.
Prior to that, Duncan spent three years at Time Warner Cable as VP, marketing insights, where he led the company’s cross-functional analytics and competitive intelligence team. He has also served as the global head of analytics at Hall & Partners USA, Inc., in Los Angeles where he developed complex analytical solutions for Samsung Mobile, Microsoft Bing, and Xbox/Kinect.
Throughout his career, Duncan has been involved in the application of data and insights in a variety of industries including retail, consumer products, consumer tech, telecoms, and automotive. He also holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More