Marvin Waldman
President
The Shadow Group, LLC
Marvin went to school a lot. He has degrees! After graduating he taught elementary school in Bushwick, Brooklyn (before it was hip). After a spell, he found his way into advertising as a copywriter and eventually became an almost-memorable Executive Creative Director at Young & Rubicam. Marvin left Y&R after 17 years and began an ongoing, albeit futile attempt to find himself.
He opened up the Shadow Group which does advertising primarily for non-profits with a smattering of for-profits to pay the bills; helped found a wonderful charter school, The Bronx Charter School for Better Learning; became a volunteer fireman; wrote and published short stories and poems; performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade, a comedy improv venue in NYC; worked on the Bill Bradley, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Presidential campaigns—he didn't help elect two of them; taught and continues to teach at Pratt and NYU.
Marvin is married to a brilliant, beautiful psychologist—she gives him a Friends & Family Discount, he has two great sons, a delightful daughter-in-law, and two fantastic grandchildren (he’s evidently fond of superlatives when speaking about his family). He still mourns his true-blue companion, Fudge, who passed on several years ago after a long and adventurous life.
Marvin’s getting older, for sure, but inexplicably maintains his youthful good looks and vigor (that’s not entirely true). That’s about it – thanks for reading all these sentences.