Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Maurice Lévy is Chairman & CEO of Publicis Groupe, the leader in business, marketing and communications transformation. He joined Publicis in 1971 as Director of IT, and was appointed Chairman of Publicis Conseil, the Groupe's flagship agency, in 1984.

He was named CEO of Publicis Groupe in 1987. Responsible for the Groupe's international expansion as early as 2000 with the acquisitions of Saatchi Saatchi & Saatchi and Bcom3, he also built the Groupe's pioneering strategic focus on digital as early as 2006 through the major acquisitions of Digitas, Performics, Razorfish, Rosetta and LBi. I

n 2014, he accelerated the transformation of Publicis Groupe by acquiring Sapient, which both opened new doors in marketing and business consulting and grew the Groupe to 76,000 talents across 108 countries. Widely recognized as a leading figure in the communications industry, Maurice Levy also co-founded the French Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord disorders (ICM) in 2005, and serves as the Chairman of the board for several entities, including the International Board of Governors for the Peres Center for Peace.

In October 2015, he was appointed President of the Pasteur-Weizmann Institute. Maurice Levy has been honored with numerous distinctions and accolades for his contributions to media, business leadership, and tolerance.