By LOS ANGELES
Tim Blett, former CEO and founder of marketing services agency eMaxx Partners, and president-partner at Doner, has joined INNOCEAN USA as EVP, managing director. In this newly created role, Blett will be charged with driving leading-edge thinking across all agency disciplines including creative, planning, account service and media. In addition, he will act as the architect of INNOCEAN’s continued agency growth and the shop’s client relationships. Blett will report to INNOCEAN USA’s CEO, Tony Kim.
Blett’s marketing expertise has encompassed everything from helping start ups at launch, new product introductions, brand repositioning projects and working with regional franchise groups. Spending over two decades at Doner, he helped the agency grow its North American network of offices and served as the leader of the Mazda business whose global branding effort (Zoom-Zoom) helped to reposition and rebuild the brand. In addition, his leadership skills inspired some of the Doner team’s most impactful work on brands including Avery, Black & Decker, Del Taco, PacSun and United Healthcare.
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