Sir Martin Sorrell

CEO, WPP Group

As CEO of WPP, the world’s largest advertising company by revenues, Sir Martin Sorrell is one of the most widely respected men in the industry. He bought a controlling stake in WPP in the ’80s, becoming group chief executive in the same year, and prior to that worked for Saatchi & Saatchi where he was referred to as ‘the third brother’. The WPP Group has amassed the largest media buying group in the world, Group M, and owns a number of advertising networks including Grey, Ogilvy & Mather and Burson-Marsteller. Sorrell chaired Media.NYC.2020 on behalf of New York mayor Michael R Bloomberg, which reviewed the future of the global media industry, and many observers in the advertising world credit him with the fact that the UK’s creative industry is still so independent and animated. 

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