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Being in a punk band is not a requisite for getting into the ad industry. In fact, it’s anything but the normal starting point, but it worked for Michael Treff, who went from punk musician to record label owner to agency CEO.
Treff is CEO of Stagwell agency Code and Theory, but he followed a very unconventional route to the position. He started off playing in a band called Closure in Long Island, New York in the mid-1990s and managed to wind his way into the ad industry with a high-decibel mode of trial and error.
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