Hasta La Creative!

In this week’s edition of “Six Things,” Mr. Fink talks about tubas, his former high-jumping excellence and the prank that helped him break into the business.

1. He dressed up as an old man to get his first job in advertising. When a creative director for Collett Dickenson Pearce told him the agency wasn’t interested in hiring students and wanted senior staff instead, Mr. Fink wasn’t discouraged. “I returned the next day with my hair dyed gray, wrinkles on my face, wearing an old mac, and completed the look with a walking stick,” he said. “They hired me.”

2. He played tuba in the school brass band. “I really wanted to play the trombone, but there were only two available, and a few other schoolmates beat me to it,” said Mr. Fink, who grew up moving around the U.K. as his father, a butler, followed job opportunities.

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