When I joined advertising a couple of decades ago, we did not have Account Planners in our agency (Trikaya, which later became Trikaya Grey which later became Grey Worldwide). The team interfacing with the client – senior management, Creative, Media (please note) and to an extent Account Managers were the ‘planning’ team. Since those were the days of bundled services, most of the specialists got together as one team and figured out the best communication…