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Michael Robertson’s ad career provides a textbook example of how to get a foot in the door by starting in the mailroom.
Robertson, 55, recently named Heil-Brice Retail Advertising’s svp and creative director, had been freelancing since the October closing of Bates USA West in Irvine, Calif., where he was vice chairman, ecd. The Glasgow, Scotland, native, who immigrated to Kerney, N.J., as a child, had visions of working for Time magazine when he graduated from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
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