New York-based advertising executive David Droga on his enduring obsession with Tamarama’s Lang Syne, and his plans for the $45m beachside block.
When David Droga was 18, he sometimes used to sleep on the couch of his brothers’ share house in Tamarama, the beachside suburb in Sydney’s east. He would walk past the 1100-square metre Lang Syne property, overlooking the ocean.
. New York-based Mr Droga is now at the peak of the global creative advertising industry, leading digital and creative agency Accenture Songpart of global consulting firm Accenture. Song reported $US18 billion in revenue last calendar year. “I was sort of looking – I’m Australian, right? I’m very fortunate to have some places I love in America, in the city and the farm. But it’s weird to be Australian and have to rent every time I come here, for Christmas with my family,” he says.“We usually rented in Watsons Bay. And I said to my wife, like, ‘I’m Australian. No matter where I live, I still want to spend time here, and I want my kids to have a connection to here’.
“The house is so out of context to the plot. We haven’t made any decisions,” he says. “It just makes me feel grateful that I have a chance to have something that is special. I hope it’s generational. Whatever we do with it, I hope it’ll be done with restraint and taste and respect for where it is.”Mr Droga, who started in the mailroom at former advertising agency Grey, became executive creative director of OMON at just 22.
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