Today we meet entrepreneur and Rye resident David Hessekiel.
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Your Name: David Hessekiel
Your Company: Cause Marketing Forum, a firm I started 20 years ago.
MyRye.com: What do you do?
Hessekiel: I am the “chief cook and bottle washer” overseeing our two brands of conference/online communities: Engage for Good (focused on corporate citizenship) and the Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum (the source for nonprofits that raise money by having their supporters reach out to their networks for donations.)
Where do you work?
Hessekiel: When I first went out on my own after the first Internet Bubble (I was CMO of an ill-fated dot.com), I started working in an unfinished cinder block basement room beneath my home on Overlook Place. Within a couple of years I had built a terrific basement office. Boy do I love my commute.
Describe your desk and office.
Hessekiel: In my office I’m surrounded by mementos from various aspects of my life:
- My collection of cause marketing memorabilia such as a box of “Ronzoni Pasta for a Cause” and a banner for TOMS shoes
- Artwork I’ve collected including a folk art character made out of a castaway tin of Sinclair Househood Oil and a roller skate and numerous items decorated with skeletons related to the Mexican Day of the Dead. (A 2019 trip to Oaxaca with a buddy for the Day of the Dead celebration was a bucket list journey.)
- More recent pandemic additions include a mini-studio for Zoomwebinars I emcee and a PAC-MAN arcade game I use to break up long stretches of work.
