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Tom Donald
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Tom Donald's background in advertising started at an early age, growing up in a household where his father spent 35 years in New York at one of the world's largest ad agencies, Young & Rubicam. Upon reaching adulthood, Tom decided to follow his star in the music business and began writing and producing jingles and background music for radio and TV commercials. After a couple of years, he found himself looking for a larger role in the creative process, and this led to a new career as writer and creative director at several San Francisco-based ad agencies.
After a stint as creative director at Anderson Rothstein, a San Francisco agency that specialized in food and beverage accounts, Tom joined Foote Cone & Belding Technology as vp/group creative director in 1988, in charge of several accounts including National Semiconductor, Tandem and Quantum. In 1990, Tom took a position as creative director at Sun Microsystems for two years. A final agency stop was at Saatchi & Saatchi, where he was writer/creative director on several divisions of Hewlett-Packard.
After years of writing commercials and videos, he decided to become a director. Since that time in 1993, he has directed (and in some cases, written) many projects, for diverse clients such as Heald College, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, the San Francisco Giants, Wal-Mart, Pacific Bell, Partnership for a Drug-Free America, Plantronics, StatusFactory.com, Avaya, Crystal Geyser, Rent A Wreck and WebTV.
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