Let’s Talk Marketing with Martin Sorrell
Q&A with Sir Martin Sorrell, British businessman and the founder S4 Capital (valued in excess of $4.0 billion), previously also the founder of WPP (the world's largest advertising and PR group, both by revenue and the number of staff).
Sir Martin Sorrell is Founder and Executive Chairman of S4 Capital plc, a new age/ new era, purely digital advertising and marketing services business for global, multinational and millennial-driven influencer brands.
S4 Capital plc merged with MediaMonks, its content practice, in July 2018 and MightyHive, its data and digital media practice, in December 2018. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange under SFOR.L and has over 7,000 people in 33 countries, with a market capitalization in excess of $4.0 billion.
Sir Martin was Founder and CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a £1 million “shell” company in 1985 into the world’s largest advertising and marketing services company. When Sir Martin left in April 2018, WPP had a market capitalisation of over £16 billion, revenues of over £15 billion, profits of approximately £2 billion and over 200,000 people in 113 countries. Prior to that, Sir Martin was Group Financial Director of Saatchi & Saatchi plc and worked for James Gulliver, Mark McCormack and Glendinning Associates before that.
Sir Martin supports a number of leading business schools and universities, including his alma maters, Harvard Business School, where he received the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award and Cambridge University, where he is an Honorary Fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge. He was ranked as the second-best CEO in the world by the Harvard Business Review in 2017 and was nominated as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People.
Sir Martin also supports a broad range of charities, including his family foundation.
Chaired by Sheryl Cuisia, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at King’s College, Cambridge University.
WHEN: 5 PM
WHERE: Zoom