Brian Gleason

Chief Commercial Officer at GroupM

Brian Gleason is Global Chief Commercial Officer of GroupM. He leads a high growth portfolio of specialty businesses – Xaxis, Finecast, Motion Content Group and Kinetic – focused on developing innovative solutions to make media work better for advertisers. Brian is tasked with understanding where the media marketplace can be improved through innovation and investment to deliver against unmet client needs. Brian’s commercially focused role helps GroupM find the best investment opportunities to enhance value for clients and power growth for GroupM and WPP.

Brian is a natural intrapreneur, incubating and accelerating new products and brands across the portfolio in previous roles as Global CEO of Performance Media Group, Global CEO of GroupM’s [m]PLATFORM, Global CEO of Xaxis and U.S. CEO of Xaxis. Brian joined GroupM in 2013 by way of the digital publishing industry, where he was the Group Chief Revenue Officer for IDG TechNetwork and IDG Consumer & SMB.

He lives in Connecticut with his wife, two children and their two dogs.

Timeline

  • Chief Commercial Officer

    Current role

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