About Me.

Varta Hojjat, Principal and founder of TSS

2008-2014 - ADVERTISING & MARKETING

Advertising career commences at Draft FCB Healthcare in New York City as an Account Executive working on multi-million healthcare accounts (Merck, Pfizer, Novartis). After developing and fine tuning client service and account management skills, left as an Account Supervisor to tackle digital marketing at Grey, IOMEDIA, and eventually Vice Media.

2015-2019 - ADVERTISING AND MEDIA

Hired as an Account Director at Vice’s creative agency to manage financial services and retail accounts, then eventually moved on to leading business development building a $8mm portfolio of clients across beauty and fashion. Asked to move to the digital media side of Vice to help launch their global Fashion & Luxury division, and successfully led the North American commercial team grow a multi-million dollar portfolio with new clients across luxury, beauty, and fashion. Worked closely with the editorial content teams at British style bible, i-D Magazine and Dasha Zhukova’s Garage Magazine. Last in-house role was at the short lived Future Media Group as an executive team member overseeing corporate development deals across the company who owned W Magazine, Surface Magazine, and Watch Journal.

2019 - THOMPSON STREET STRATEGY LAUNCHES

Thompson Street Strategy launched in Q4 2019. Through leveraging our vast network, we help launch, grow, and scale brands through creative partnerships and non-traditional thinking and strategic solutions.