Mad Men

Herman "Duck" Phillips is the former head of account services at the Sterling Cooper advertising agency. Previously, he was with Young & Rubicam in London. He's now at Grey. In order to raise Sterling Cooper's profile he instructed employees to land accounts with the airline, automobile, and pharmaceutical industries, with mixed results. After approaching former colleagues at the London-based Puttnam, Powell and Lowe about working there, he engineered a merger with Sterling Cooper, for which he was promised a position atop the hierarchy. His plan hit a snag when Don Draper refused to report to him, and threatened to leave Sterling Cooper.  Duck has an ex-wife with whom he shares a son and daughter. He recently took possession of – and then abandoned -- the family dog, Chauncey. For some time, Duck avoided alcohol; he is now drinking again.