John Singleton (Australian entrepreneur)
Australian entrepreneur (born 1941)
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- John Desmond Singleton (born 9 November 1941) is an Australian entrepreneur.
- Early life Singleton was born in the Sydney suburb of Enfield and educated at Fort Street High School.
- Walter Thompson.
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WikipediaJohn Desmond Singleton (born 9 November 1941) is an Australian entrepreneur. He built his success and wealth in the advertising business in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, and later also had diverse investment interests in radio broadcasting, publishing and thoroughbred breeding and racing.
Singleton was born in the Sydney suburb of Enfield and educated at Fort Street High School.
Singleton commenced a career in advertising in 1958 as a mail boy in the Sydney office of J. Walter Thompson. In 1963, he took a creative role at Berry Currie Advertising, and later attaining the role of Creative Director. In 1968, together with his Art Director partner Dunc McAllan, he started his own agency in Sydney and the pair soon teamed-up with Rob Palmer and Mike Strauss who had an existing small Melbourne shop with media buying accreditation to start Singleton, Palmer and Strauss, McAllan (SPASM) which opened with offices in Sydney and Melbourne.
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