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AS A 6-FOOT-11-INCH teenager, Tim Andree easily made his high school's basketball team. He attended the University of Notre Dame on a basketball scholarship and was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 1983.
When he realized he'd never be an NBA star, he used the game to hustle his way into the business world. He headed overseas to play for corporate-owned basketball teams, first in Italy and Spain, and eventually in Japan. There, he scored a management trainee job at Tokyobased Toyota, which often employs its players.
Mr. Andree has since racked up 20 years of communications and marketing experience at multinational corporations, both abroad and back home. Now he's become the first American to run the U.S. flagship of Dentsu, the largest advertising agency in the world. As chief executive of Dentsu America Inc., Mr. Andree must raise the Japanese giant's profile here.
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