Speakers
Lance Maerov
Lance Maerov is SVP of corporate development for WPP, where he co-heads the division in negotiating and executing 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. 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 $20 million of venture capital on its behalf over 1995-1997 before joining Reed Elsevier. He holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School.
