"a fish out of water"
Genevieve graduated from Smith College and has a photography certificate from UC, Berkeley. After leaving Smith she was hired as the Design Manager by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC and served as the Design Manager for the Institution’s National Museum of The American Indian.Genevieve spent seven years with DDB’s San Francisco location. Among her many responsibilities at the agency, she oversaw new product development, brand strategy development, as well as consumer research and analysis leading to effective marketing strategies. Genevieve was also the Senior Account Supervisor for many Clorox Company brands. As you may know, DDB Worldwide is the highest revenue advertising agency in the world at $12.69 billion. Before DDB Genevieve was with Foote, Cone & Belding’s San Francisco office. FCB is also one of the world’s largest agencies. She and her husband decided to take a risk and move to Sacramento, a healthier place in which to raise their little one. For the past year Genevieve has been working at Merlot Marketing. Now, a strong part of our Client Services team at Augustine, Genevieve is both serving the many needs of our new clients, as well as helping with new product roll-outs for existing clients.
What You Might Not Know…
Genevieve grew up overseas—10 years in Africa (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; Pretoria, South Africa; Casablanca, Morocco – from the ages of 3-13.) She lived in Manila, Philippines for three years where she graduated high school. She’s traveled to over 25 countries, and speaks French fluently – in fact, she speaks two Frenches: French French and Quebec French and those who know the difference will believe her when she says that these are really two different languages! Though she doesn’t appear so, she’s somewhat a fish out of water—Genevieve loves to swim, scuba, windsurf, water ski, sail, etc. If there’s water involved, she loves it. Last but not least, she’s a total “foodie”, just “loves food, food, food!” Not discriminating, in fact she loves all types of food and will eat just about anything, all the while savoring the memory of special, favored meals almost bite for bite. Kind of a photographic-food-memory-syndrome…it’s true.