Former advertising veteran Stuart Trott, died on June 29 at his Manhasset Hills, New York home. The cause of death was lymphoma. He was 85 years old.
A Harvard Business School graduate, Trott served as vice president, group head at Benton & Bowles from 1958-1969, working with clients including Procter & Gamble, Texaco, General Foods and Vick Chemical. At the beginning of 1970 he was appointed senior vice president, creative director at Normal, Craig & Kummel and stayed with the agency for nearly a decade, overseeing work for clients such as Colgate Palmolive, Dow Chemical and Liggett & Meyers. Many of those clients stayed with Trott when he formed his own marketing consultancy in 1979.
Trott’s son-in-law, Mike Nagle, called him “Don Draper in the actual era in which Mad Men was set,” and added that the show referenced his position at Benton & Bowles. Stuart is survived by Phyllis, his wife of 58 years, brother Donald, children Jodi Nagle, Jessica Denton and Barri Trott, and grandchildren Emily and Jack Nagle.