Jerome Cohn

Life has been good to me, but not always in ways I expected.  After graduating from Davis, I enrolled as a Freshman at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.  I didn't study much, but I enjoyed life there for the year and a half before I was kicked out for leading a panty raid.  I then came home, attended and graduated from NYU School of Commerce in 1962.  I joined the Army Reserves, worked as a private investigator for 4 months, then reported to Fort Dix to do my 6 months active duty. After being discharged, I got a job at a small advertising agency specializing in fashion, where as Assistant Production Manager I delivered the mail, refilled the water cooler, maintained the copier and learned a little about print production.  "Luck" was with me though:  the agency went out of business and I was forced to seek employment elsewhere, ending up at Dancer, Fitzgerald, Sample (now Saatchi& Saatchi), where I worked for 9 years in the media department and as an Account Executive.  During this time, I met and married my 1^st wife, Donna.  We lived in Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan until our 1st son, Greg, was one and then moved to Yorktown Heights in Northern Westchester.  I left Dancer for an Account Executive position at DKG, but after only a few months, my luck returned, and I was fired and forced to seek employment elsewhere, again.  Because my wife was pregnant with our 2^nd son, Adam, I took an "interim" job at a small agency that specialized in advertising to kids, Ed Libov Associates, where I ended up staying for over 10 years, working my way up to become responsible for managing their largest account, Toys R Us.  Meanwhile, Donna was accepted into the Phd program in Clinical Psychology at American University in Washington, DC, and, though I tried commuting for a bit, we were soon separated.  After that, my kids would come up every other weekend, until they discovered girls.  On the work front, luck was once again a two-edged sword, as Ed Libov sadly died of a heart attack at 50, and, subsequently, Toys R Us asked me to open my own agency.  Only a few years after Bohbot & Cohn was born, luck struck again:  my partner wanted the business for himself and made me the proverbial offer, which I gladly accepted.  I've spent the last 19 years traveling around the world enjoying my 2 great passions:  skiing & SCUBA diving, and, when home (on the Upper West Side of Manhattan) taking advantage of all the great things NYC has to offer.  Although I’m currently unattached, I've had a few long-term relationships along the way, the most important being my marriage 10 years ago to Laura, with whom I was living when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer and who agreed to marry me knowing she had only months to live.