Kenya

Soumya Saklani, As Managing Director, Millward Brown Sub Saharan Africa, Soumya oversees Millward Brown’s 3 offices (Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya). Soumya Saklani started his career in research in the early 90’s in India. Over the past 20 years, Soumya has lived and worked in a number of countries including India, Hong Kong, China (Shanghai) and… read more »

Manish Sardana is the Managing Director, Squad Digital, based in Nairobi. He is a digital entrepreneur with over 10 years experience across E-commerce, digital and traditional advertising. Manish has built large scale internet businesses in India such as Intel Capital and Jafco Asia. During this stint, he also designed patent-pending recommendation engines. Manish Sardana holds… read more »

Solomon Mahinda is a seasoned communications and marketing expert with over 10 years experience. Solomon Mahinda has developed and implemented communications (internal and external) projects including cultural transformations, stakeholder engagement plans, crisis communications management, corporate and brand communications as well as introduction of new company vision across different sectors. Before joining H+K in May 2015,… read more »

Sally Sawe is a seasoned strategic leader with over 16 years experience marked by demonstrated ability to build, inspire and nurture peak-performing teams and achieve cross-functional business objectives. She is an operational lead with an excellent track record for identifying opportunities for accelerated growth. Sally Sawe is an experienced in managing high visibility clients and… read more »

Ayub Ahmed, is the operations chief, WPP Scangroup, Sub Saharan Africa. One of the oldest employees of the group, over the years Ayub has played different roles in the management of the group. He heads the media operations portfolio and as joint CEO is responsible for trading, buying and media relations functions across sub Saharan… read more »

Mathieu Plassard, A 20 years+ veteran, Mathieu started as a Strategic Planner with Y&R in Paris. Mathieu Plassard joins Ogilvy & Mather in 2000 to manage the Nestlé Waters Global account (in particular the award winning Perrier campaigns), Maxwell House Europe, Motorola Europe & American Express. Coping with the rise of the shopper marketing discipline… read more »

Sandeep Madan is the CEO of SCANAD Africa & JWT East Africa, based in Nairobi. He has been working in the communication development and planning business for over 21 years. During his career, Sandeep has managed global businesses, regional business in Asia, and local businesses in India. Prior to this role, Sandeep was responsible for… read more »

Dominic Grainger was appointed a Director of the Company on 26 July 2018 as a nominee of WPP Plc to fill a vacancy resulting from the resignation of Mr. Scott Spirit from the WPP Group. Dominic, age 52, started his career at Price Waterhouse in 1987, working on many acquisitions across Europe. Dominic Grainger joined… read more »

Pratul Shah was appointed a Director of the Company on 26 July 2018 to fill a casual vacancy.Pratul Shah, age 64, has over 30 years of professional experience in general practice and specialist advisory areas in audit, tax planning, strategic planning, corporate finance and corporate recovery work with Pricewaterhouse Coopers, where he was a Partner…. read more »

Patricia Ithau is an experienced marketing and brand management professional. Patricia Ithau is currently the Regional Director for Stanford Seed East Africa. She has previously served as Managing Director of L”Oreal East Africa Ltd. Managing Director of EABL Venture at East African Breweries Ltd, where she joined as Marketing Director – Kenya in 2005, and… read more »

Jon Eggar is a qualified ACA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and joined WPP-Scangroup in January 2014. Prior to this he had spent 12 years with the WPP Group in various capacities, the most recent being CFO – International Specialist Communications. This role allowed him to develop relationships within many… read more »

Laurence Mellman is a Director of Special Projects at WPP. Laurence Mellman has worked at WPP since 1996 and has undertaken a number of roles in both the parent company and in the operating companies. Currently Laurence is also Chief Operating Officer at The United Network, an advertising agency network within WPP with agencies in… read more »

Andrew Scott has since 1999 been WPP’s Director of Corporate Development spearheading the Group’s global mergers and acquisitions. Andrew Scott also leads WPP’s International Specialist Communications Division which comprises Promotion and Relationship Marketing, Sports Marketing, Custom Publishing and Media, Technology and Production Services. Prior to joining WPP Andrew was a strategy consultant at LEK Consulting…. read more »

Muchiri Wahome holds a BA in Economics from the University of Nairobi and an Advanced Certificate in Management from the Strathmore Business School. He is also a Fellow of the Aspen Leadership Institute. With over 20 years of retail experience, Muchiri Wahome is currently the Managing Director of Deacons Kenya Ltd. He chairs the Moi… read more »

Bharat Thakrar is the founding shareholder of the WPP-Scangroup and a director of all WPP-Scangroup subsidiaries. Bharat Thakrar has working experience in advertising and communications spanning over thirty six years. He holds a Diploma in Advertising and Marketing from the Communications and Marketing Foundation – UK. He is a former chairman of the Advertising Practitioners… read more »