PB >>21367203 PB Advertising monolith GroupM announced Wednesday that CEO, Christian Juhl will step down

July 23, 2019

New York, NY, July 23, 2019 – GroupM, ''WPP’s media investment group'', today announced that Christian Juhl will become global CEO on October 1, 2019, succeeding Kelly Clark. Christian will be responsible for the vision, strategy and operational excellence of WPP’s media-focused companies, together the world’s largest media investment organization with 35,000 people and $48B in annual client media billings.

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Christian is currently global CEO of Essence, an award-winning data and measurement-driven agency he joined in 2013. He led Essence’s acquisition by WPP in 2015, and since joining GroupM, Essence has grown exponentially in markets, clients and services. The 4As named Christian among its “100 people who make advertising great” in 2017, and Essence earned Adweek’s recognition as “Breakthrough Agency of the Year” the following year. Before Essence, Christian held roles with Publicis, Razorfish and USWeb/CKS.

https://www.groupm.com/newsroom/christian-juhl-named-groupms-incoming-global-ceo/

https://archive.ph/O0vHi

WPP is the parent company and has many subsidiaries, including GroupM.

Using WPP as a search term, USASpending.gov has them @ $2.4 Billion dollars in cash and prizes.

That's a lot of cash that can be used for propaganda and media purchases, etc, innit?

https://www.usaspending.gov/keyword_search/%22WPP%22