Sir Martin Sorrell
Executive Chairman
S4 Capital
Sir Martin Sorrell is Founder and Executive Chairman of S4 Capitalplc, which is buildinga purely digital advertising and marketing services business for global, multinational, regional, local clients and millennial-driven influencer brand.
Sir Martin was 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 for 9 years and worked for James Gulliver, Mark McCormack and Glendinning Associates before that.
S4 Capital plcmerged with MediaMonks, itscontent practice,in July 2018 and MightyHive, itsprogrammatic practice, in December 2018 and has added eightfurther content programmatic and data companies to both practices in 2019and sixin 2020. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange under SFOR.L and after a little over twoyears, S4 Capital plchas over2750people in 30countries, with a market capitalization of over $2.6billion.
Sir Martin supports a number of leading business schools and universities, including his alma maters, Harvard Business School and Cambridge University and a number of charities, including his family foundation.
