Does MDC's Miles Nadal Have a Chance?

This article presents information on Miles Nadal, CEO of the MDC Partners Inc. The 46-year-old college dropout, who now has his name attached to various Toronto institutions, from a Jewish community center to a York University management school to a patient-relations unit at Mount Sinai Hospital, has left his chilly hometown to become a suntanned advertising magnate based on the taxfree beaches of Paradise Island in the Bahamas. The industry's newest holding company comes from Canada, not a country known for its brand building and is the brainchild of a man who's never worked in an ad agency and yet these days finds himself rubbing shoulders with some of the industry's best-known creative people.