ON LEE ZUMDOME

MDC: Jeremy, could you outline how you initiated contact with Lee and developed the dialogue that led to the signing.
Jeremy: Lee and I began speaking in January of this year after I saw him on MODELS.com. We developed a rapport over email and I invited him to call - he was full of questions about New York - about the industry as a whole - very thoughtful, very engaging questions. Apparently ours was not the only agency who had expressed interest, and he was careful to ask well pointed questions as many of our more established neighbors had also contacted him requesting Polaroid's. Given the level of expressed interest I invited him to come in to New York for a long weekend and make the rounds visiting other agencies. After a week of planning all was arranged for Lee to go to agencies throughout the city. He was to meet with me last.

MDC: And the rest is history. Now six months later Lee's in NY...
Jeremy: Fast forward six months to his relocation to New York. Since arriving in June Lee has done a charity event in Barbados, booked GQ and shot editorials for Cosmopolitan and DNR magazine, worked several weeks at the Diesel showroom, and has been on first option for two national commercials and one campaign. We have secured representation for him with Storm in London ,in Milan with Joy, and here in New York he has both on-camera representation with JDG Talent as well as a commercial agent. Lee has also been offered representation by several firms in both Miami and Chicago, but before deciding, we're waiting on his tears so as to coordinate direct bookings.