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Born in Zimbabwehis father started the country's first chain of soft-serve ice cream parlorsRobertson was raised in South Africa and England and started his ad career as a media planner at Ogilvy & Mather. After rising through the ranks at O&M, he moved to J. Walter Thompson in 1989 and managed the firm's biggest account, Kellogg, before moving on to mid-sized British agency WCRS, and then London's Abbott Mead Vickers. In 1999, when AMV was purchased by Omnicom and merged with the Omnicom-controlled BBDO London, Robertson was made CEO of the combined company, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO.
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