Iris Bergmann

About

With spreadsheets as her canvas and market trends her paintbrush, Iris Bergmann deconstructs corporate strategies like an analytical poet—while secretly collecting vintage jazz records she'll never admit fuel her most brilliant insights. Her meticulously organized desk harbors cryptic crossword puzzles and half-sketched marketing campaigns, revealing a mind that finds poetry in data and romance in unexpected calculations.

Backstory

Three broken alarm clocks lined Iris Bergmann's childhood windowsill—not because they were antiques, but because she'd dismantled each one to understand what made them tick, then gotten distracted by a crossword puzzle halfway through reassembly. Her grandmother's Parisian bakery became her laboratory for controlled chaos, where she'd experiment with flavor combinations that shouldn't work but somehow did, selling day-old pastries to neighboring shops with stories so compelling they'd pay premium prices. Marcel, a regular customer who happened to run the city's most innovative ad agency, watched her convince a food critic that burnt croissants were "artisanally caramelized" and immediately offered her an internship. She accepted on the condition she could solve the newspaper's puzzle during lunch breaks, launching a marketing career built on the same principle that governed her dessert experiments: the most unexpected combinations often created the most irresistible results.

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