Martin Sorrell | Executive Chairman |
Peter Rademaker | Group CFO & Executive Director |
Wesley ter Haar | Executive Director |
Victor Knaap | Executive Director |
Scott Spirit | Chief Growth Officer & Executive Director |
Chris Martin | Executive Director |
Omar Sheikh | Morgan Stanley |
Okay. Welcome, everybody. This is our second call of the day. I'm joined Martin Sorrell, Executive Chairman of S4. I'm joined by Peter Rademaker, who's in Amsterdam, our CFO; Wes ter Haar and Victor Knaap in Amsterdam, the two founders of Media.Monks; Chris Martin in Boulder, Colorado.
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