Kantar ‘Talking to Crozier’ About Chairman’s Role

Kantar ‘Talking to Crozier’ About Chairman’s Role

January 21 2020

Adam Crozier, former CEO of broadcaster ITV, the Football Association and Royal Mail, is said to be discussing the role of Chairman at Kantar.

Private equity firm Bain Capital, which bought 60% of Kantar last year in a deal valuing the firm at $4bn (£3.2bn), was reported by the Sunday Times newspaper to have approached Crozier about the role. Reports cite ‘a source close to Kantar’ as confirming the conversations, but no deal is yet agreed and Kantar has thus far declined to comment.

Crozier, who is also a former Joint CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, spent seven years at the helm of ITV, leaving in 2017, and is currently Chairman of retailer Asos, brewer Whitbread and cinema chain Vue. His former ITV colleague Ian Griffiths was appointed as Kantar’s CFO two weeks ago.

Six weeks ago, current Kantar CEO Eric Salama announced his intention to step down from his role ‘at some point in 2020’ – no announcement has yet been made about possible successors.

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