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For Kate Everett-Thorp, returning to interactive advertising after the birth of her twins in January 2003 was a question not of whether but of when.
“I get so excited about it,” said the 35-year-old executive, recently named president of interactive, a new post, at independent AKQA in San Francisco.
During her time off, Everett-Thorp never completely lost touch with the business. Working intermittently on projects, she could be spotted at the playground on her cell phone, obtaining information from startup companies so she could help write their business plans.
The job offer came from a former crosstown rival: AKQA CEO Tom Bedecarré, who knew of Everett-Thorp from her days at Lot21, a San Francisco i-shop that she launched in 1998.
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