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Sir Martin Sorrell and the board of WPP have ended their search for a non-executive chairman with the surprise appointment of Philip Lader, the outgoing US ambassador to the UK.
The appointment of 54-year-old Lader, who has held several key government posts under his close friend President Bill Clinton, will be seen as a coup for the WPP group, and follows the announcement of year-end figures showing strong profitability.
Sorrell had experienced some difficulty finding a suitable replacement for Hamish Maxwell, the 73-year-old outgoing chairman who had agreed to delay his retirement during the search for his successor.
Plans to appoint Sir Christopher Lewinton, the chairman of the engineering group TI, were abandoned after a negative reaction from ...