Effies, Clios, Addies, sure. But how many agencies can claim an Olympic silver medalist?
The Brownstein Group in Philadelphia can—thanks to the addition in January of Emily deRiel as an account executive. After getting a bachelor’s degree at Yale and a master’s at Oxford, both in English, the Philadelphia native competed in the pentathlon at the Sydney Olympics. The five-sport race comprises shooting, horseback riding and jumping, running, swimming and fencing.
Always a competitive swimmer, deRiel got into pentathlons, a primarily European sport, at Yale.
“I liked the community of it,” she said.
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