MediaCom UK appoints Adrian Walcott as first external board advisor

Ella Sagar

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November 9, 2021

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Adrian Walcott has been chosen as MediaCom UK’s first external board advisor.

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Ella Sagar Ella Sagar is a reporter for The Media Leader and leads our audio and out-of-home coverage. She joined in September 2021 and has a gold standard NCTJ. She previously wrote for the South West Londoner, Ealing Times, and The Hillingdon Times. At the University of Leeds, she received a First Class Honours Degree in French and Spanish with distinction in speaking and during her time there regularly presented radio shows on Leeds Student Radio, wrote for the student paper The Gryphon and was editor of Her Campus Leeds.

Adrian Walcott has been chosen as MediaCom UK’s first external board advisor.

Walcott starts in his consulting role immediately and joins the WPP agency’s 12-person executive committee board.

Walcott co-founded Brands with Values, a training and consultancy business that helps leaders make change in diversity and inclusion, as well as business transformation and employee engagement.

He is also the co-founder of BAME 2020, a social enterprise that aims to be a catalyst to attract, retain and grow young BAME talent and work towards a proportional representation within the marketing and media workforce. Its aim is for 20% of senior marketing talent to come from a BAME background.

Walcott’s position at MediaCom is focussed on “culture, inclusion and business transformation”, and avoiding “group think”.

He said: “I am delighted to be joining a board that doesn’t just share my values around people first, but is actively holding itself to account on the role culture play’s in driving meaningful and sustainable transformation.”

MediaCom said its UK executive committee already has a 50/50 split to “champion diversity”.

Last year the WPP media agency launched an inclusive media planning commitment, where reaching diverse audiences will be a feature of all its work for advertisers.