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After a legendary advertising career full of firsts, Mary Wells Lawrence will be the first woman to be honored with the Lion of St. Mark—the Cannes Lions’ prestigious lifetime achievement award—since it was instituted in 2011.
When she founded New York agency Wells Rich Greene in 1966, Wells Lawrence became the first woman to found, own and run a major ad agency. Two years later when the agency went public, she became the first woman CEO of a company traded through the New York Stock Exchange.
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