Chief executive officer of WPP plc
Book Martin Sorrell For
Corporate Appearances, Speaking Engagements, Autograph Signings, Endorsements, VIP Meet & Greets, Store Grand Openings
Book Martin Sorrell for a Speaking Engagement
Businesses, Non-profit organizations, event planners and companies across the country have worked closely with our booking agents to hire Martin Sorrell for a speaking engagements, guest appearances, product endorsements and corporate events. Many of those same clients have continued to turn to our speakers bureau as we can easily align Martin Sorrell’s availability with their upcoming seminar, gala, annual conference, corporate function, and grand opening. Our close relationship with Martin Sorrell’s booking agent and management team further enables us to provide inquiring clients with Martin Sorrell’s speaking fee and appearance cost.
If your goal is to hire Martin Sorrell to be your next keynote speaker or to be the next brand ambassador our celebrity speakers bureau can assist. If Martin Sorrell’s booking fee is outside your companies budget or your unable to align with his appearance availability, our booking agents can provide you a list of talent that aligns with your event theme, budget and event date.
Martin Sorrell is a British businessman and the chief executive officer of WPP plc. He has served in that role since he started the company.
In 1985, Sorrell privately invested in Wire and Plastic Products, a British wire shopping basket manufacturer, and joined it full-time as Chief Executive in 1986. He began to acquire "below-the-line" advertising-related companies, purchasing 18 in three years, including in 1987 when he stunned the agency world with a $566 million "hostile" takeover of J. Walter Thompson. Sorrell followed this in 1989 with another dramatic hostile $825 million buy of Ogilvy and Mather. Since 2000, WPP has also acquired two more integrated, global agency networks, Young & Rubicam Brands and Grey.
Sorrell himself is widely respected throughout the advertising industry, with his words being scrutinised and quoted by many within the marketing sector. He had articulated in 1996 how interactive media—including the Internet—could transform the way we build brands and communicate to consumers in a November 1996 Harvard Business Review article, "The Future of Interactive Marketing". Many industry observers credit him with the fact that the UK still has an independent, vibrant communications industry. His famed remark that the advertising recession in the early part of this decade was "bath shaped" was one of the most repeated quotes in the 2003 – 2004 period. On 18 November 2008, WPP technically re-incorporated itself as an offshore entity in Jersey in order to reduce an annual tax bill of more than £200million. In 2014, Sorrell received total compensation from WPP of GBP £40 million, his largest annual total since £53 million in 2004.
He was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours.On 27 September 2007, Sorrell was awarded the Harvard Business School’s highest honour, the Alumni Achievement Award, by Dean Jay O. Light. The award was also given to: Ayala Corp. chair Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, A. Malachi Mixon of Invacare, Donna Dubinsky and Hansjorg Wyss of Synthes. In 2015 he was a Trustee of the British Museum.
Read More About Martin Sorrell
Let our team of booking agents help create a memorable experience with hiring Martin Sorrell for your store grand opening, golf outing, trade show booth or corporate outing.
NOPACTalent acts as a Celebrity Speakers Bureau and Athlete Booking agency for corporate functions, appearances, private events and speaking engagements. NOPACTalent does not claim or represent itself as Martin Sorrell’s speakers bureau, agent, manager or management company for Martin Sorrell or any celebrity on this website. NOPACTalent represents organizations seeking to hire motivational speakers, athletes, celebrities and entertainers for private corporate events, celebrity endorsements, personal appearances, and speaking engagements.
