Unilever Shops Face Life Without Simon

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The departure of a client CMO would worry any agency partner. But in the case of Simon Clift, an agency advocate who forged tight bonds with the leaders of some of Unilever’s roster shops, the news could be even more worrisome.

As a champion of smaller creative agencies in particular, Clift built strong relationships with Lowe worldwide chairman Tony Wright and Bartle Bogle Hegarty worldwide CEO Simon Sherwood. Wright survived the loss of his CEO role to Stephen Gatfield in 2006 — when Wright shifted to chairman — largely because of his connection to Clift, who sources described as an iconoclast and intuitive marketer.

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