He started in hotel convention services. Now Chris Meyer leads Project Worldwide, bringing independent agencies together around a lesson learned long before his first marketing brief: pay attention to the people in the room.
Project Worldwide has 13 agencies, 45 offices and no single P&L. Its wager is that specialists collaborate better when the people doing the work also own the place.

Wondersauce began with a Manhattan walk, a borrowed apartment and a list of people to call. Fifteen years later, John Sampogna is still betting on curiosity, clear systems and the useful art of changing before the market makes you.