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Paul DeBraccio
Vice President of Advertising/Sales
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Paul's an old pro when it comes to advertising. He's been in the biz since many of us were knee-high to a grasshopper. That's why whenever he walks by, we can't help but sing, "Do do that voodoo that you do so well"... Paul DeBraccio has a posse.
Madhavi Saifee
Eastern Ad Director
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Three years in the interactive industry and the birth of her beautiful daughter Rehana weren't enough to deter Madhavi from taking the job as Tripod's Eastern Advertising Director. After growing up in Bombay, India, she graduated from RIT with her B.A. in Business, and then received her Master's Degree in Communications from the University of Southern California. It's fun to play "Guess That Accent" when Madhavi calls because she has lived in just about every corner of the US.
Lawrence Katzman
Western Ad Director
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When Lawrence isn't busy doing the sales schmooz thing (which is most of the time — what, get a life you say?!), he spends his spare time rollerblading along the unbeatable Southern California beaches and driving up and down the California coast with his sunroof open. This makes his colleagues in Billsville and NYC insanely jealous, especially 'round the middle of February, but we've decided to take the high road and gloat over how much less likely we are to get skin cancer.
Michele Bitton
Western Account Manager
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We hired Michele to be our ad rep in San Francisco after learning she was familiar with the three states in which Tripod has office — Massachusetts (graduated from BU), New York (grew up in NJ and lived in the Big Apple after college) and California (been there 7.5 years). We figured she wouldn't get too lost finding her way to meetings with clients, especially in San Francisco where she was in ad sales at two newspapers — the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the SF Weekly. Michele got her Net experience in ad sales for the net magazine and the Imagine Games Network.
Jody Thompson
Western Ad Manager
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Traci Allen
Midwest Account Manager
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Ari Blech
Account Manager
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Fast-talking Ari has quickly become one of our top salesman by doing *whatever* it takes to fill his quota. If it means joining the Internet Drinking Bureau, he'll do it. If it means asking Tripod's Health/Sports editors to start a section devoted to athlete's foot so he can sell ads to Desenex, he'll do it. He's *that* ruthless!
Jennifer Duddy
Account Manager
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Many NYC and west coast staff are shocked to see the rural surroundings of Tripod World Headquarters here in Williamstown, but not Jennifer. She has slowly migrated from her equally small home town of Medway, Mass. to UMass Amherst to Spain for study abroad to Hoboken, NJ, from whence she now commutes across the Hudson to Tripod New York. When she's not schmoozing the clients she is indulging in her favorite pastimes — eating all kinds of food and listening to all kinds of music.
Jonathan Blinderman
Account Manager
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Jonathan gave up the glamorous world of selling ads for TV to sell ads for Tripod. The sales pitch may be the same but you can't hum our theme songs without a MIDI player. Jonathan divides his nights between his enticing finacee Sage and the lure of the hockey rink. Hmmmm...we think you'd better make up your mind BEFORE the wedding, Jonathan.
Ron Hoffman
Sales Assistant
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Ron has a resume to die for! He interned at NBC where he physically ran into Bob Hope's wife Dolores and got to see all the Saturday Night Live regulars and guests rehearsing. He worked at an M&M; plant during his college breaks. He sells B&W; photos on the street of New York once a month. He volunteers for a Community Literacy Research Project. And then there are his advertising credentials, which finally brought him to Tripod New York. But what we REALLY want to know is why his family calls him Doodleboy and his friends call him Lollipop...hmmmmm.
Renee Lewis
Telesalesperson, Waltham
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