Rob

Reilly

Rob Reilly

Global Chief Creative Officer, WPP


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.

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