Mark Linder

Global Client Leader, Gray Global Group

Common Purpose Trustee

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Mark works for WPP, leading cross-company teams that are focused on certain clients. He is currently focusing on Nokia, Ernst & Young, and working on client strategic planning issues through Sans Frontières, a geo-political unit of Chime (a mini-WPP, in which WPP has an investment). Mark leads the collective teams across 10 or more other WPP companies that serve those clients globally. Mark's non-agency background includes disciplines from general advertising to direct marketing to the internet. Previously, he was the first ever chief marketing officer for KPMG ("The Global Leader"), the global accounting and consulting firm. He was founding Vice President-Marketing for Mainspring, created as a web-based independent knowledge source for corporate builders of internet/intranet applications. Mark came to London after leading Ogilvy's Detroit office. Mark and family live in London.