Rob Reilly is the Global Chief Creative Officer of WPP and one of the world’s most celebrated creative leaders. He joined WPP in early 2021 to help realize its ambition to become the most creative company on the planet. His role is to champion creativity within and beyond the company – fostering a culture that delivers extraordinary work for WPP’s clients, collaborating with technology partners to fuel creativity needed for their platforms. In his short tenure, WPP has already achieved the highest honor at the Cannes Festival for Creativity in both 2024 and 2022 – Creative Company of the Year.

As the host of WPP’s new video podcast Screaming Creativity, Rob is joined by influential leaders from across the industry to engage in bi-weekly, candid conversations about creativity in all its forms with guests including actor and comedian Marlon Wayans, former Apple SVP and CEO of Burberry Angela Ahrendts, Microsoft’s Chief Brand Officer Kathleen Hall, The Coca-Cola Company’s CMO Manolo Arroyo, and more.

Before WPP, Rob spent seven years as the Global Creative Chairman of McCann Worldgroup, where he led the agency’s creative resurgence – which included collecting the Network of the Year award at Cannes Lions in 2019. Before moving to McCann in 2014, he was Partner and Worldwide Chief Creative Officer at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, which was named Advertising Age’s Agency of the Decade during his tenure. Rob is known for helping to create some of the most talked-about ideas of recent times, for the most impactful global brands. Highly-awarded, culture-shaping work he has overseen includes the “Fearless Girl” statue on Wall Street for State Street Global Advisors and Mastercard’s “True Name” card. As well as winning numerous awards himself, Rob has chaired several industry award show juries, including Cannes Lions four times.

He is a member of The One Club for Creativity Board – a non-profit organization dedicated to creative excellence and the development of young, diverse talent. In his spare time, he and his wife live in NYC and share a home in Shelter Island where Rob is trying to hold on to his youth by playing “old-man” soccer and basketball with the locals.

Dr. Batool Kazmi an accomplished academic who’s spent her career exploring and learning from all aspects of the marketing and communications industry. She believes data without context is just numbers and strives to ensure we act on the information that can drive impact and inspire change.

Today Batool focuses on identifying and addressing key disparities in healthcare, helping doctors and patients overcome key barriers. Working as a brand and medical strategist, Batool has worked on some of the biggest brands in the world and instigated key efforts such as Pfizer’s Every Color is Primary campaign.

Author of over 10 academic papers, podcaster, and Professor at Oncology University, an educational platform for agency and pharma clients, Batool also founded Colorsthetics, a consultancy focused on amplifying the experiences and needs of skin of color in the aesthetics space—because she believes it’s time to see color.

As EVP of HERO Collective Health, Sabrina Modellas helps brands tap into their cultural superpowers, maximizing their volume opportunity to reach new audiences with cultural humility and health literacy principles at each critical point of impact along the customer experience.

For 20 years, Sabrina has been launching brands and managing omnichannel integrated marketing efforts, ranging from the consumer packaging goods, automotive, and healthcare industries on global, national, and regional scales. She realized early in her career that we must take a 360° approach, melding insights and commercial imperatives to deliver creative work that resonates and yields measurable results to propel business.

Sabrina has had the pleasure of working with pharmaceutical companies such as Eli Lilly, UCB, Boehringer Ingelheim, Amgen, Sanofi, Merck, Takeda, and Johnson & Johnson on disease states including virology, respiratory, pulmonology, osteopathy, immunology, endocrinology (diabetes), rare disease, and oncology overseeing DTC, Payer, and HCP activity.

As an avid believer in making continual progress, she takes special interest in partnering with clients to push us out of our comfort zone. She has aided in shaping the implementation of new tech standards to deliver turnkey personalized communications and unified analytics across channels to find gaps and enhance overall customer experience and brand offerings.

Doug Melville is a celebrated author, a three-time TEDx speaker, and one of today’s most innovative and sought-out voices in international equity and inclusion.

He is currently the CEO of JodieAI, a generative AI & curated expert network, designed to support companies, executives and communications professionals on their journey to inclusive practices.

Melville has been featured prominently in the media, including “CBS Saturday Morning,” TIME, “Daily Show,” the “Breakfast Club,” CNN, and the Washington Post among others. He is also a Forbes.com contributor.

Doug Melville’s first book, Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America’s First Black Generals (Simon & Schuster) debuted as an Amazon #1 Best-Selling New Release, and has since become the subject of a PBS “NewsHour” Classroom Daily News Lesson.

Throughout his career, he has served as the global head of equity for Richemont, a luxury holding company in Geneva, Switzerland and TBWA, a top ten global ad agency, on Madison Ave in New York. He has traveled to over forty countries to better understand this topic globally, and is also a contributor for Forbes.

Obi Ibekweh holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Obi began her career as a Pharmaceutical Sales Representative for GSK, where they gained valuable experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

After four years in sales, Obi transitioned to a consulting role at TRINITY, a boutique life sciences consulting firm. During her time at TRINITY, Obi honed her skills in strategic planning and market analysis, providing insights and recommendations to various clients across the life sciences sector.

In 2015, Obi joined Pfizer as a Senior Manager in data analytics, supporting various Oncology brands. Over the years, Obi took on commercial roles of increasing responsibilities, across Rare Disease and, most recently, Vaccines.

Currently, Obi serves as the Senior Director, Vaccine Adoption and Equity. In this role, she sets the strategic vision for a team responsible for fostering vaccine adoption by empowering communities to advocate for their own health as well as the health and of their loved ones. In this role, Obi has had the distinct honor of leading Pfizer’s partnership with Essence, promoting awareness and education of conditions that disproportionately impact the Black community.