Our
Leadership
Team

Our leadership team creates a culture of excellence and collaboration across Publicis Groupe UK, ensuring the delivery of world-class ideas and solutions for every one of our clients.

Niel Bornman

PUBLICIS MEDIA UK CEO

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Niel Bornman

PUBLICIS MEDIA UK CEO

Niel oversees Publicis Media across the UK and Ireland as CEO. A digital entrepreneur at heart, Niel has a proven track record in building products and solutions that drive transformative growth for clients.

His incredible depth of knowledge and expertise is built on more than two decades in the industry. In early 2000’s, Niel led one of South Africa’s leading full service digital agencies, which later become part of Dentsu.

Since then, Niel has held numerous leadership roles across Dentsu and WPP, pioneering tech and data strategies both locally and globally for some of the world’s leading consumer brands such as Colgate, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz and Tesco.

An accomplished leader, Niel is committed to building diverse teams, galvanising them to collaborate and innovate to deliver meaningful solutions that drive client’s business growth.

Clare Donald

PRODUCTION PRACTICE CEO

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Clare Donald

PRODUCTION PRACTICE CEO

Clare joined Publicis Groupe as Chief Production Officer in January 2020. She started her career in commercial production companies moving into feature film development. She subsequently worked with a number of agencies, namely AMV/BBDO, JWT, Mother and Havas. In 2013, Clare was approached by Google and joined as Head of Operations for Google Creative Lab EMEA. Lured back into advertising, she joined Ogilvy London as Chief Production Officer in 2016 before moving to Unreasonable Studios as Global MD in 2018. Today, she employs her vast agency, production, tech and long-form expertise in its widest sense for Publicis Groupe. Clare co-chairs The British Arrows, and leads the Publicis Groupe Green Council, which champions sustainability.

Ben Silcox

DATA & COMMERCE PRACTICE CEO

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Ben Silcox

DATA & COMMERCE PRACTICE CEO

Ben is an experienced data and product leader who joined Publicis Groupe in March 2020 as Chief Product Officer, leading the UK Data and Commerce Practices. His focus is on building end-to-end person-centric experiences, powered by data. He helps businesses grow by combining human centered, system and product design. Previously, Ben held positions at BCG and Havas where he worked as Chief Data & Digital Officer. His clients included Unilever, BT, HM Government, Shell, Diageo, Tesco and Vodafone. An accomplished entrepreneur and commercial leader, Ben also worked in hospitality and fitness for over a decade.

Chris McCafferty

INFLUENCE PRACTICE CEO

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Chris McCafferty

INFLUENCE PRACTICE CEO

Chris McCafferty is Groupe CEO of Publicis Groupe UK’s Influence Practice, overseeing MSL, Taylor Herring and sustainability consultancy SalterBaxter. Prior to Publicis, he was the founder of Kaper, part of the Karmarama Group, and part of the management team to sell the group to Accenture Interactive in 2016. After the sale, Chris was Managing Director in Accenture Interactive’s Experience Agency, helping clients achieve experience-led growth by combining right-brained consultancy thinking with left-brained creative thinking. Other career highlights include launching MySpace across Europe as founding Corporate Communications Director, and, before that, the first Corporate Affairs Director at MSN UK, part of Microsoft. Chris co-leads Diversity and Inclusion for Publicis Groupe UK at a UK Board/Exec level. 

Scott Criddle

PUBLICIS SAPIENT UK COUNTRY LEAD

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Scott Criddle

PUBLICIS SAPIENT UK COUNTRY LEAD

Since joining Publicis Sapient in 2011 Scott has played several leadership roles, from leading experience delivery across EMEA through to now being Publicis Sapient’s UK lead. Regardless of role, his passion and focus is to enable the growth of our people, culture and community through the transformative work we do for our clients.

Victoria Wright

HEALTH PRACTICE CEO

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Victoria Wright

HEALTH PRACTICE CEO

Juanita Draude

CHIEF GROWTH OFFICER

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Juanita Draude

CHIEF GROWTH OFFICER

With a career that spans both clients and agencies, Juanita has deep experience delivering brand, communications, data and business transformation strategies. As Chief Growth Officer, Juanita leads Groupe growth, marketing and operations. Juanita joined Zenith in 2016, working with clients across retail, CPG, fashion, beauty and financial services before moving to the Publicis Group UK team in 2019. Prior to joining Publicis, Juanita led marketing and brand teams across international markets for the NBA (National Basketball Association) and various divisions of NBCUniversal. 

Ben Mooge

CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER

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Ben Mooge

CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER

Ben joined Publicis Groupe in September 2019, and is responsible for the creative output of all the agencies within Publicis Groupe UK. He began his career in 1997 as a junior writer / runner / teaboy at a start-up agency, Mother, and left 10 years later as a Creative Director at the Agency of the Decade. He has won multiple awards for his work with Unilever, ITV and Orange. Ben went on to co-found Work Club, working with Heineken, Sharp and Pernod Ricard which was voted Digital Agency of the Year in 2011 and 2012. Work Club was acquired by Havas network in 2014, where he became Executive Creative Director at Havas London. Notable campaigns were award-winning work for Carling, Reckitt Benckiser, Heathrow Airport and for the HM Government’s Department for Education. Today Ben is focussed on raising the creative bar across all of our agencies, finding new ways for creativity to grow across all of Publicis Groupe UK.

Eleanor Conroy

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

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Eleanor Conroy

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

Eleanor is a seasoned communications professional with 25 years’ experience in corporate and consumer comms across a broad range of sectors including media, entertainment, travel, consumer goods and retail, for iconic brands such as Holiday Inn, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, P&G and Asda. Eleanor has specialised in crisis and issues management, and setting up new communications functions for large businesses. Eleanor is also a trustee of Auditory Verbal UK, a charity that helps deaf children learn to listen and talk.

Anne-Marie Pearce

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

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Anne-Marie Pearce

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Anne-Marie Pearce is the CFO of Publicis Groupe UK.  Anne-Marie has over 20 years of experience in Finance and Media. Prior to joining Publicis, Anne-Marie held senior finance positions in the Walt Disney Company and Global Media, and she qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen/Deloitte in 2002.  Anne-Marie is a highly strategic and commercial finance leader, who supports businesses to accelerate growth, manage change and embrace new opportunities. 

Paula Cunnington

CHIEF TALENT OFFICER

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Paula Cunnington

CHIEF TALENT OFFICER

As Chief Talent Officer Paula is an authentic leader who is passionate about building high performing teams and fostering future talent along with creating environments that enable all to flourish and grow and become the best we can be. Paula has over 25 year’s experience as a Talent professional having worked across a variety of industries including Financial Services and Consulting however, the last nine years have been in the world of Media & Advertising having previously held roles at Dentsu before joining Publicis Groupe UK in 2018.