Peter Mead is currently Vice Chairman of Omnicom Group Inc, the biggest advertising agency in the world with a value of $13 billion. He left school at 16 and went to work in the despatch department of a large advertising agency, from where he rose quickly. In 1977, he co-founded Abbott Mead Vickers (amvbbdo.com) with David Abbott and Adrian Vickers, which became, and remains, the most successful British advertising agency ever. In 2013 he received a CBE for services to the creative industries.
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