Arthur Sadoun
• Chair & CEO
First appointment: June 1, 2017 Expiry of term of office:
September 14, 2022 Number of shares held:
129,965 Publicis Groupe SA 133,
avenue des Champs-Élysées 75008 Paris France
Biography
Arthur Sadoun, who has a diploma from the European Business School and an MBA from INSEAD, the European Institute of Business Administration, started his career at the age of 21, creating his own advertising agency in Chile that he would later sell to BBDO. He joined the TBWA network (Omnicom) in 1997 and was appointed CEO of TBWA/Paris in 2003. In 2006, he joined Publicis Groupe as CEO of Publicis Conseil, the flagship of the Group founded by Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet. He was appointed Chair of Publicis France in 2009 then promoted to CEO of the Publicis Worldwide network in 2013. In 2015 he was appointed CEO of Publicis Communications, the creative solutions arm of Publicis Groupe. He has been Chair of the Management Board of Publicis Groupe SA since June 1, 2017. Arthur Sadoun was named “Director of the Year” by Advertising Age in 2016, and is Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite.
Other offices and positions held within the Group
• Chair and Chief Executive Officer: Publicis Conseil SA (France)
• Director: BBH Holdings Limited (United Kingdom), MMS USA Investments, Inc. (United States), MMS USA Holdings, Inc. (United States)
Main offices and positions held outside the Group
None
Offices and positions held outside the Group in the last five years
• Independent director and member of the Corporate, Environmental and Social Responsibility Committee: Fnac Darty SA, listed company (France) (term ended in May 2018)