Lance Maerov

Short Biography

Lance currently co-heads WPP`s Corporate Development team in North America. His primary focus is to identify, negotiate and execute acquisitions, investments and joint ventures. He began his work for the Corporate Development Group in March 2005 in New York after WPP`s acquisition of Grey Global Group. In this role, Lance reports directly into Martin Sorrell. Before joining WPP, Lance worked at Grey Global Group as its head of corporate development and made over 20 venture investments on behalf of Grey through its Grey Ventures subsidiary. Prior to joining Grey, Lance handled acquisitions and investments for Reed Business Information, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier. Lance was a founder of iFusion, an early push-technology start-up, and raised $20m of venture capital on its behalf over 1995-1997 before joining Reed Elsevier. Lance earned a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from the University of Vermont. He also holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School.