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413:(now known as Monks) for $ 350 million, using a share issue to fund the purchase. Sorrell's previous employer, WPP, claimed that he was using confidential information by pursuing the deal. In December 2018, S4 Capital purchased MightyHive for $ 150 million. In June 2019, S4 Capital acquired the Melbourne company BizTech. By this point, the company had 1,300 employees, including a number of ex-WPP employees. In October 2019, MightyHive announced that it was merging with ConversionWorks, a company which works with
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in an investigation around the circumstances of his departure from WPP has commented that what “emerged is a picture of routine verbal abuse of underlings and a blending of Sir Martin’s corporate and private life that jarred with some colleagues — particularly over his company expenditure, some of
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In 2005 Sorrell sold £9m of shares in WPP at the end of a restricted stock holding period. He also agreed to change a contract with the company which had been much criticised by institutional shareholders in WPP as being unfairly written in
Sorrell's favour. Under the previous agreement if Sorrell
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underground car parking spaces worth around £90,000 each; £23.5m in cash; £2m in bank deposits; and other assets including stocks and shares. Despite the divorce settlement, Sorrell still had 13 million shares in WPP, an estimated £80m stake, following the divorce, representing around 1% of the
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Italian subsidiary and contract disputes with the US launch of the OK! magazine.
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Justice Thorpe stated that "special contribution remains a legitimate possibility but only in exceptional circumstances"; Sorrell was the first husband deemed to have met that criterion in a subsequent divorce settlement, with
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in 2019, Sorrell is worth £368 million. Sorrell has served on boards and advisory bodies of a number of high-profile public, academic and business organisations, including several leading business schools, both in the UK and internationally.
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Sorrell was first married to Sandra
Finestone, with whom he has three sons, but the marriage broke down in 2003. In October 2005, he cashed in £12 million of WPP shares to fund the divorce settlement, in which Ms. Finestone, represented by
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and subsequently appointed to the Office's Panel 2000 aimed at rebranding
Britain abroad. In 1999 he was appointed by the secretary of state for education and employment to serve on the Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership.
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Advisory Board of the Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM), at the University of Cambridge, UK. In 1998, he was appointed to the board of directors of associates of
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Sorrell was born in London on 14 February 1945 to a Jewish family: his father was an electronics retailer, whose ancestors came from Ukraine, Poland and Romania. He was educated at the independent
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package increased by 70% to £4.5 million after WPP's pre-tax profits rose 28%. In
October 2011 Sorrell went on the BBC to defend large increases in his and other CEO pay packages at a time when
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which was also extended to his wife”. This included allegations that Sorrell visited a brothel paid for with company funds. Sorrell has denied these allegations.
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1587:"WPP vs. S4: Sorrell's Approach To Building An Empire, Then And Now"
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offered 925p per share, or a 20% premium over the then share price.
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1387:"WPP CEO Sorrell Quits After Three Decades at Top of Ad World"
687:"WPP to cut Sir Martin Sorrell's pay in bid to calm investors"
368:– having stewarded WPP since 1985. Sorrell left WPP in 2018.
1631:"Martin Sorrell's S4 buys ad firm MightyHive in $ 150m deal"
1298:. Economic Research Council. 21 October 2011. Archived from
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Abs-Cbn Interactive, JAZA receives Harvard alumni award
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1893:"CNBC Transcript: Interview with Sir Martin Sorrell"
1015:"Sir Martin Sorrell Biography from speakerideas.com"
955:"Ad Age Advertising Century: People: Martin Sorrell"
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1073:"WPP to sell Mugabe-associated Zimbabwe agency"
871:"Martin Sorrell: Persistence and determination"
761:The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History
2106:, 6 September 2020, accessed 6 September 2020
1504:Kostov, Nick; Vranica, Suzanne (9 June 2018).
990:. St. Martin's Publishing Group. p. 186.
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2176:, British Museum, accessed 31 March 2015
764:. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 939–940.
2746:English people of Polish-Jewish descent
2126:, 18 April 2021, accessed 19 April 2021
1751:"Sir Martin Sorrell takes swipe at WPP"
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1042:"/ UK – Campaign link forces WPP sale"
819:"The other side of Sir Martin Sorrell"
2726:Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
2137:"13. Sir Martin Sorrell | Media"
2015:from the original on 11 December 2022
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1296:"Week 42, 2011: UK Real Average Wage"
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1917:Turvill, William (24 August 2016).
1321:Mandel, Michael (3 November 2008).
1284:. British Broadcasting Corporation.
869:Benjamin, Todd (16 December 2005).
623:. In 2015 he was a Trustee of the
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2766:Businesspeople awarded knighthoods
2741:English people of Romanian descent
1979:. 21 December 2005. Archived from
1281:Sir Martin Sorrell defends top pay
1278:Martin Sorrell (28 October 2011).
1220:Snoddy, Raymond (2 January 2006).
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2736:English people of Russian descent
2680:2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids
1999:Sherwood, Bob (25 October 2005).
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1093:Barker, Alex (18 December 2020).
898:"Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968"
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2495:England 2018 FIFA World Cup bid
1116:Farrell, Sean (17 March 2015).
923:Reece, Damian (26 March 2005).
599:. The award was also given to:
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2731:Harvard Business School alumni
2061:"Jonathan Sorrell - Man Group"
1538:Sweney, Mark (30 April 2021).
1412:Auletta, Ken (17 April 2018).
1352:Sweney, Mark (29 April 2017).
1251:Sweney, Mark (28 April 2011).
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2246:Bates CHI & Partners
1891:CNBC (17 January 2017).
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1944:Business Insider France
984:Roman, Kenneth (2010).
902:Harvard Business School
607:, A. Malachi Mixon of
590:Harvard Business School
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2336:Scholz & Friends
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1228:. UK. Archived from
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304:Young & Rubicam
262:"the third brother"
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2399:J. Walter Thompson
2371:Wunderman Thompson
2266:Dewey Square Group
2251:Blue State Digital
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