Cindy Gallop took a risk when she entered advertising, and hasn’t stopped taking them since. She began her early career in the UK as a theater publicist, until an audience member declared that she could “sell ice to an Eskimo,” and advised her to make the jump to advertising. Four years later, she joined one of the fastest growing agencies in Europe, Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
In 1998, she moved to New York, alone, and began building their US branch. Four years after that move, BBH US was named Adweek’s Eastern Agency of the Year.
She launched MakeLoveNotPorn at TED2009, in an attempt to squash the myths of hardcore pornography and to begin a dialog around how real people have sex.
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