It’s an exquisite irony that Jeremy Zimmer’s last major business trip was at the end of February, where he sat at a gala dinner in Doha with Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani — just across from his nemesis, Michael Kassan.
The CEO of United Talent Agency was there to secure MediaLink’s business with Qatar’s Government Digital Council (GDC), which was hosting a Web Summit for 25,000 attendees and star speakers like Will Smith and Alexis Ohanian.
Kassan, the brand-whisperer who has been entangled in a bitter lawsuit with Zimmer for a year after (pick a side) quitting or being fired from UTA, was competing for Qatar’s business too, but as a rival to UTA-owned MediaLink.