Two generations after the sexual revolution, we want to know: Where all the women CEOs?
On Oct. 6, 2005, Toronto's advertising community flocked to the John Bassett Theatre for what was billed as "a night of awe and inspiration" with Neil French, the worldwide creative director of WPP Group plc. The 61-year-old Brit, a former bullfighter, pornographer and manager of the heavy-metal band Judas Priest, is a god in advertising circles, an outspoken bad boy famous for his award-winning campaigns for Chivas Regal and Dove soap.
French was interviewed by two well-known creative directors, both men, on a stage decorated as a hunting lodge, complete with mounted moose antlers. He regaled the crowd with his Hemingway-esque exploits, all the while taking shots at a number of targets—advertising account executives, Australians, Canadian culture, hockey. Throughout, a young woman wearing a skimpy maid's outfit served drinks to the men onstage. "Thank you, luv," French would say to her. "Could you lean over a bit more?"
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