Author Gene Del Vecchio is the president of his own consulting firm in Valencia, California. He is the former senior partner, director of planning research in the Los Angeles office of Ogilvy Mather Worldwide, the world's sixth-largest agency network. While there, he developed products targeted toward children for companies including Baskin-Robbins, Disney, Good Humor-Breyers, Hershey, Kraft Foods, and Mattel.