Frank Dopheide Düsseldorf, Germany

In an interview, Frank Dopheide, chairman and creative director of Grey Dusseldorf/Germany, discussed his career. He began his advertising career at Grey Dusseldorf in 1990. During his five years as a copywriter at the agency, Dopheide helped to create award-winning campaigns for P&G, Visa and Deichmann. While he was the executive creative director of Publicis Groupe's BMZ, the agency was named 1999 Agency of the Year. Returning to Grey in 2004, Dopheide became the first creative to chair Germany's second-largest agency group. The three most inspiring things about his city are evening barbecues on the Rhine, the annual festival of subtitled films, and Claudia Schiffer and Heidi Klum are from Dusseldorf.