Jeremiah Rosen
I grew up in rural Sullivan County, NY, an ethnically-diverse area about 90 miles northwest of New York City, and the erstwhile Tourism Capital of the Catskills. I was an average student at Monticello High School, an above-average skier, and a kid who was generally interested in “How Things Work”. I spent my formative years assembling and disassembling whatever toys, electronics, and machinery was on hand.
I didn’t really become a scholar until I enrolled in law school at Syracuse University (which is an excellent time to pick up the habit, btw). In addition to a J.D., I found time to earn a Master’s in Communications from The Newhouse School at SU.
Like many late bloomers and underachievers, I went to work in advertising, initially in NYC (Deutsch and NW Ayer & Partners) and then in Portland, Oregon, at Wieden + Kennedy. For the better part of three years, it was my distinct pleasure to be part of W+K’s Nike and Coca-Cola account teams. In 1999, I followed the dotcom boom to San Francisco where, over 4 years, I helped build a Paris-based startup into a powerful revenue engine.
I returned to NYC in 2004 and joined DCODE, a boutique ad agency affiliated with Curious Pictures. We were doing some great things at DCODE but when I spoke with Steve, Gregg, and Mike about Campfire, I simply couldn’t turn them down. The opportunity to stretch the marketing narrative through the current and present social media landscape was too great to pass up.
