Stagwell

Stagwell is working to build an investment portfolio of marketing services companies. We are putting digital first in all investments without being weighed down by legacy assets. Our portfolio will only have one or two of each kind of agency from: digital media buying to market research to public relations and beyond to allow for true cooperation. Most importantly, we know great talent needs to be valued and nurtured to achieve best in class growth that will allow for generous incentives and financial rewards. To facilitate that growth, we will act as value added investors, not simply managers, through new business development, strategic counsel and add-on acquisitions that keep agencies on the cutting edge of marketing innovation.
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Ryan Greene

CFO

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Jay Leveton

Partner

Mark Penn

President and Managing Partner

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Jason Reid

CIO

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Beth Lester Sidhu

COO and Chief Marketing Officer

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Alexis Williams

EVP

11 past transactions

ReputationDefender

Acquisition in 2018
ReputationDefender® is an online reputation management company based out of Redwood City, California. ReputationDefender focuses on providing real solutions for clients who seek to manage negative search results, combat privacy threats, or improve business branding online. Featured in major media sources like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, ReputationDefender’s customer service department has earned Stevie Awards for the last five years in a row. ReputationDefender holds more than 20 online reputation and privacy patents and uses proven methods driven by experienced staff members to deliver results to a global customer base of more than 1 million users. ReputationDefender operates under the belief that all people should have fair representation in an online setting. Therefore, the company makes it simple for an individual to exercise some control over his or her web presence. By developing personalized, professional content and strategically publishing it on the Internet, ReputationDefender helps clients move negative search results down off of the first page while pushing strong, positive content to the top.

Nielsen - Assets

Acquisition in 2017
Nielsen is specialized in Mobile Insights Survey and the Total Communication Survey.

PMX Agency

Acquisition in 2016
PMX Agency, formerly two companies (PM Digital & Paradysz, Inc.), is an Internet marketing agency specializing in search engine marketing, search engine optimization, social media marketing, and shopping portal feeds. Supported by proprietary media and marketing intelligence tools, PMX Agency helps clients to build business revenues and brands online by developing, implementing and maintaining paid and natural search campaigns.

Ink

Acquisition in 2018
Ink reaches a captive audience of hundreds of millions of travellers each year through magazines and our Targeted Advertising web service which allows us to deliver targeted media into mobile applications, check-in emails and print-at-home boarding passes. We have recently been engaged by two of our larger airline customers to produce their main mobile applications, and see this as an opportunity to develop the leading mobile platform globally to help airlines connect with travellers via the mobile channel. Ink has won numerous awards for their magazines. The most recent awards include Gold and Silver awards for Hemispheres magazine, Launch of the Year by n by Norwegian magazine, and six awards from the Magazine Publishers Association of Singapore Awards. Founded in 2000, Ink works with over three dozen airlines. Our travel clients include companies such as: United Airlines, Bangkok Airways, Brussels Airlines, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Cebu Pacific, easyJet, Eurostar, Germanwings, GOL, Jetstar, KLM, PrivatAir, Ryanair, Tiger Airways, TransAsia and Wizz Air. Our trade media division puts Ink in the centre of the air travel industry. We produce the Airline Retail Conference in Europe and Asia, and the China Travel Retail conference (and now five more trade events in China following our acquisition of GIS Events)

MDC Partners

Acquisition in 2020
MDC Ventures invests in early stage, marketing technology companies transforming the global marketing landscape. Since 2010 we have been partnering with the innovators, entrepreneurs and startups addressing the needs of the Modern CMO. MDC Ventures is the corporate venture arm of global advertising group, MDC Partners.

CAA - Entertainment Marketing Division

Acquisition in 2017
CAA Marketing operates as a entertainment marketing division of CAA.

Code and Theory Inc.

Acquisition in 2016
Code and Theory is a creatively-led agency that creates products, content and campaigns across physical and digital worlds. The agency has been helping brands tell stories and designing the systems that carry them since 2001. From redefining the publishing industry with clients like Los Angeles Times, Vogue, and Mashable, to creating award-winning marketing programs for brands like Burger King, Dr Pepper and Maybelline New York, to making physical products for startups like Prong and Outernet, Code and Theory is the creative agency for the new age.

Scout Marketing

Acquisition in 2017
Scout Marketing, Inc. offers proprietary services for healthcare and consumer–B2B clients. It provides brand development, digital content development, proprietary database, and think-tank services. Scout Marketing, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with additional offices in Chicago, Illinois; and San Diego, California.

MultiView

Acquisition in 2019
MultiView, Inc. provides digital marketing and publishing solutions for business to business (B2B) marketers and associations. The company provides B2B programmatic buying and advertising campaigns through digital publications and tools. It provides persona targeting, behavioral targeting, and intent targeting solutions for audiences; buyers guide advertising, news brief advertising, association website advertising and retargeting solutions to marketers; and content creation, social media marketing, and marketing insights solutions. The company also provides digital marketing solutions to agencies and digital publishing solutions to associations. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Irving, Texas. It has additional offices in Sandy, Utah; Ontario, Canada; and Alexandria, Virginia.

Forward3D Limited

Acquisition in 2017
Forward3D is an independent digital marketing agency. They run cutting edge, global digital marketing campaigns across paid search, natural search, content, display and social using industry-leading performance linguistics, data science and technology.

SKDKnickerbocker LLC

Acquisition in 2015
Led by a team of managing directors with experience at the highest levels of corporations, government, and campaigns, SKDKnickerbocker provides strategic advice, public relations, crisis communications, advertising, direct mail, and research to national and international companies, advocacy organizations, associations, leading non-profit organizations, and elected officials and candidates from the White House to State Houses across the country.