Thedrum

Mandana Mellano was born in Iran, a child in a world of turmoil. She has lived in four different continents and has traveled the world, speaking three languages fluently and bringing a global sensibility to her job as chief media officer at Fallon. Mellano has had an impressive career so far. Before Fallon, she was partner and director at Ogilvy & Mather / Neo@Ogilvy, and spent time at Rapp as VP and in director roles at Group M: Mindshare + MEC and Kastner & Partners. As a successful industry veteran, she doesn’t think women need to compromise their values, capabilities or dreams, and she loves people who have purpose and are able to project that purpose into the world and for others. If she hadn’t gone into media and marketing? Mellano would have been a cartographer, which isn’t difficult to imagine with her globe hopping. She believes that everyone should live in another country and learn another culture to get perspective and depth in how they see the world She believes that hitting lows in life and b