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.

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.

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 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.

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 years 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.