Background
Cindy Gallop was born in Amersham and grew up in Brunei. Cindy Gallop father is English and her mother Malaysian Chinese, from Alor Star in Kedah.
Chief Executive Officer and advertising executive
Cindy Gallop was born in Amersham and grew up in Brunei. Cindy Gallop father is English and her mother Malaysian Chinese, from Alor Star in Kedah.
Gallop studied English Literature at Somerville College at Oxford University, and received an Master of Arts from Oxford University in English Language and Literature and an Master of Arts from Warwick University in Theatre of the European Renaissance.
According to the TED blog, Gallop"s TEDTalk "Make Love Not Porn" was one of the "most talked about presentations" at the 2009 TED conference. She currently lives in New York City. She is of half English, half Chinese descent.
Cindy’s parents live in Penang, where Cindy returns regularly.
Gallop worked as a theater publicist and marketer in England for several years before switching careers to advertising. She joined the London office of British advertising firm Bartle Bogle Hegarty in 1989 and was responsible for large accounts like Coca-Cola, Ray-Ban, and Polaroid.
In 1996, she helped start the Asia Pacific branch of BBH. She founded the United States branch of BBH in 1998 and served as Chair of the board. She founded her own brand and business innovation consultancy, Cindy Gallop Limited Liability Company, in 2006.
She is known for her tagline: "I like to blow shit up.
I am the Michael Bay of business."
At the 2009 TED conference, Gallop launched the MakeLoveNotPorn web site in a 4-minute TEDTalk that the TED blog described as "one of the event’s most talked about." The goal of MakeLoveNotPorn is to provide more realistic information about human sexuality than that provided by hardcore pornography. She later published a TED Book, Make Love Not Porn: Technology"s Hardcore Impact on Human Behavior. MakeLoveNotPorn.tv launched in August 2012, a video sharing site designed "to make #realworldsex socially acceptable and socially shareable."
In January 2010, Gallop launched IfWeRanTheWorld, a web platform designed to turn good intentions into action, by allowing people, brands, and companies to easily perform, trade, and coordinate "microactions." One client of IfWeRanTheWorld is Levi"s, who worked with IfWeRanTheWorld to create a campaign to revitalize the manufacturing town of Braddock, Pennsylvania.
Gallop is a professional public speaker in the areas of advertising, branding, and business strategy and has spoken at TED, SXSW, the Association of National Advertisers conference, Web 2.0, ad:technical and other conferences.
Gallop"s unique black-themed New York apartment was a set for The Notorious Bjarke Ingels Group "s music video "Nasty Girl." Her apartment has been profiled by Dwell, Apartment Therapy.com, The Atlantic, The Selby and New York magazine, among many others
