Weed Joins WPP Board in NED Role

WPP has appointed Keith Weed, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Unilever for most of the last nine years, as a Non-Executive Director, effective from 1st November.

Weed was named the World's Most Influential CMO by Forbes in 2017, 2018 and 2019, and Global Marketer of the Year by the World Federation of Advertisers in 2017, joining the Marketing Hall of Fame in 2019. He retired from Unilever in May this year, and is currently President of the UK Advertising Association.

WPP Chairman Roberto Quarta says of the appointment: 'Keith is one of the world's most influential and successful marketers. He has a deep understanding of our business, the ways in which technology is transforming marketing, the sectors in which we operate, and our FMCG clients in particular. We are very pleased to welcome him to the WPP Board'. Weed himself says he looks forward to contributing to WPP's future, 'leveraging my understanding of building brands in a rapidly changing world - from digital and data to content creation and sustainability'.

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