Dave Marinaccio (b. 1952 born in

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) is an American advertising executive and a best-selling author. His works include ''All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek'' (1994), ''All the Other Things I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek the Next Generation'' (1998), and ''Admen, Mad Men, and the Real World of Advertising: Essential Lessons for Business and Life'' (2015). He is Chief Creative Officer at LMO Advertising, located in

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His father, Alexander Teresio Marinaccio, was of

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descent. Marinaccio attended

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elementary school and public high school in

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, after which he graduated from the

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with a BS degree in

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(he has told how he initially entered that course of study to be near a certain university student). After college he worked at several jobs, then tried his hand at

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with

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workshop in

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. From there he moved into advertising, working first as a copywriter at the firm

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. After stints at Foote, Cone & Belding, DMB&B, DDB Needham, and Bozell Worldwide, he helped found LMO Advertising where he is the "M." His career in advertising has spanned 35 years. While working as a copy writer, he was urged to write a book about his near-obsession with the 1960s

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''. In the book, he explains how he is able to date hot young women by using the lesson he learned from Captain Kirk.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Marinaccio, Dave 1952 births Living people People from Enfield, Connecticut American people of Italian descent American marketing people American non-fiction writers People from Arlington County, Virginia 20th-century American businesspeople

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