Two of our spies have made a point to mention Kunal Muzumdar and Casey Ingle in the many breaths emitted on Campbell Ewald’s behalf.
The two are touted as the best account planning folks CE had. You’ll recall the 20 layoffs that went down a few weeks back. Muzumdar and Ingle were savvy enough to get out on their own, both landing in Seattle. Ingle, CE’s former VP of account management ended up at Cole & Weber United (which recently didn’t win Amazon). Muzumdar is reportedly serving at AA|RF.
A second spy said this of the two: “They were two of the smartest minds in the building. The kind of people you build an agency around and nurture. When those are the people leaving your shop, the canary’s six-feet under.”
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“Casey worked on Alltel during the initial My Circle launch and won a Jay Chiat award for the agency — Kunal is working on Alltel currently — they were regarded as the 2 best planners at the agency, both under 30 — was a huge blow to the agency.”