Awards & Recognition
★Knighted in 2000 New Year Honours
★TIME 100 Most Influential People nominee
★Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award 2007
★Ranked 2nd best-performing CEO globally by Harvard Business Review 2016-2017
★Hugo Shong Lifetime Award in Communication
★Honorary Fellow of Christ's College Cambridge
Notable Facts
→Founded WPP and built it into world's largest advertising company (33 years as CEO)
→Founded S4 Capital in 2018, reached £4B market cap at peak in 2021
→Longest-serving FTSE 100 CEO before leaving WPP
→Worth £368 million according to Sunday Times Rich List 2019
→Regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and major financial publications
→Active on speaking circuit at major business conferences globally
→Cambridge Economics graduate, Harvard MBA 1968