Gallop Says Goodbye To BBH, Seeks N.Y.-Based Position

Cindy Gallop describes her first interview with Nigel Bogle in 1987 as “dreadful.” The 27-year-old was at Ted Bates in London and eager to join the account management ranks of the shop famous for its Levi’s advertising. But she remembers being nervous to meet the worldwide CEO of BBH and says they didn’t hit it off.

Gallop didn’t get the job, but—true to form—the straight-shooting, fast-talking Oxford graduate made an impression. “She said she decided she was going to work for BBH,” Bogle recalled last week, to which he replied: “I know you made the decision, but we don’t have a job.”

Gallop’s directness and candor impressed Bogle, and two years later he hired her as an account director in London.