Geometry Global archive.ph/bO58o
"Born out of the merger between G2, OgilvyAction and JWTAction and part of WPP, Geometry Global is the world’s largest activation network. "
Grey Group's international clients include Procter & Gamble, GlaxoSmithKline, Nokia, British American Tobacco, Diageo, Volkswagen, Novartis, Wyeth, Canon, DirecTV, and 3M en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Glob…
"In July 2022, Grey Group named Laura Maness the agency’s global CEO, who previously worked at Havas. She is the sixth CEO in Grey history and the first woman to attain the role"
2015 : "HAVAS PARIS BETS WITH WINAMAX AND LAUNCHES ITS FIRST SPORTS BETTING TV CAMPAIGN.. Winamax is the No. 1 poker site in France with one of the best software" web.archive.org/web/2019050409…
Winamax?
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"Nicole Brachetti Peretti born Junkermann in Düsseldorf .. created the online gaming platform Winamax" - Vanity Fair
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Bolloré is the largest shareholder at approximately 30% of Vivendi. Chairman Yannick Bolloré is also CEO of Havas, which was spun-off from Vivendi in 2000 but has since become a subsidiary
"The Warner Music Group chairman, Edgar Bronfman Jr, was convicted today of insider trading and fined €5m (£4.2m) over his conduct as vice-chairman of French company Vivendi nearly a decade ago...
"Jean-Marie Messier, the former Vivendi chief executive, was convicted on charges of misleading investors by the same Paris court.
Bronfman Jr, who was vice-chairman of Vivendi until 2003, received a 15-month suspended sentence and a €5m fine...
"The convictions relate to the period from 2000 to 2002, at the tail end of a $77bn (£48bn) acquisition spree masterminded by Messier, which turned Vivendi into a multimedia giant spanning music, film, video games and TV...
"Vivendi acquired Seagram, which owned companies including Universal Studios and Canal Plus, in 2000 in a deal that made the Bronfman family Vivendi's largest shareholder, with Bronfman Jr becoming a vice-chairman of the French company...
..Warner Music Group said that it had been "thoroughly briefed on the underlying facts" and continued to back Bronfman Jr."
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A1 Company Services, Temple Secretaries Limited. ..Barbara and Keith Kahan were listed as company directors. Until its recent acquisition, the entire share capital of A1 Company Services was held by
February 2000 : Robert Louis-Dreyfus ( Olympique Marseille and Adidas ) and private investors invest two million euros in the company Winamax Interactive
In 2001, Nicole Junkermann sold her share of Winamax 👀
The story of Nicole Junkermann's next investment continues in this archived post:
"Nicole Junkerman, Part2, Infront Sports" archive.ph/REiv6
"During her time at Infront Sports & Media, Junkermann would be caught flying on Jeffrey Epstein’s “Lolita Express” on 3 occasions"
"IN 2015 Der Spiegel reported that the bidding committee for the FIFA World Cup 2006 had set-up a slush fund that Louis-Dreyfus, at the time CEO of Adidas, filled with 10.3 million Swiss francs in 2000. Allegedly these funds were used to bribe FIFA officials and secure
Germany's bid to host the 2006 World Cup.. The Swiss-based sports marketing agency was handling the media rights distribution of the FIFA World Cup in 2002 and 2006."
"Sandrine Zerbib was appointed in the mid-1990s to create and develop the China business of Adidas. ..Under Sandrine’s leadership, Adidas emerged as a leading performance sports brand in China, set to be the number one brand by 2008."
The Pictet fraud case has not had much air time in the UK..
"The Swiss private bank has for centuries endeavored to display the greatest possible discretion. The bank had already been dragged into the limelight by its newest partner, the media-friendly Collardi. "
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The bank’s problems piled up on his watch: a Russian arms scandal linked to its former Moscow head which has spurred the Swiss regulator into action as well as money laundering probes tied to FIFA and Petrobras...
.. Boris Collardi will also have to subjugate the glamor-seeking side of his lifestyle: no more red carpet St. Tropez appearances with Leonardo DiCaprio and no more 30-minute interviews with U.S. broadcaster «CNN Money»."
2016 : "Among the 900 guests mingling at a star-studded charity event hosted by Leonardo DiCaprio in St-Tropez last week was – perhaps predictably – a Swiss private banker: Julius Baer CEO Boris Collardi. The Swiss bank’s ties to DiCaprio have deepened... finews.com/news/english-n…
The event, dubbed «the most amazing celebrity auction of all time» by influential U.S. business magazine Forbes, drew more A-listers than some award shows.
Guests included Cate Blanchett, U2’s Bono, George Clooney, Steven Spielberg, Robert DeNiro, Chris Rock and Bradley Cooper..
Baer has sponsored the event 3 years running..
This year, DiCaprio raised $45 million for personal charity, with the help of prominent Swiss auctioneer and art collector Simon de Pury, who conducted the live auction...
The charity auction has prominent «chairs,» or a sort of board set up to oversee the evening. Its members incl: De Niro, .. Philippe Cousteau, Jr., ..Kate Hudson, .., Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Spacey, Charlize Theron, Chopard co-president Caroline Scheufele – and Collardi.
"The bank gifts DiCaprio’s foundation, LDF, an undisclosed amount to appear as a sponsor of the St-Tropez auction as well as for Collardi to act as an event chair.
LDF isn’t required to disclose any financials because of its status as a foundation..
DiCaprio’s entity makes use of a system of community foundations that are commonplace in the United States: LDF is a component fund of the California Community Foundation.
This means DiCaprio’s foundation doesn’t pay taxes or have to provide the same type of accountability that
private foundations do. The structure is perfectly legal, if controversial in charitable circles for its lack of transparency.
DiCaprio's credibility as an environmentalist took a beating after he was mocked in climate circles for frequently using eco-unfriendly private jets..
"The bank sent Collardi and Europe head Remy Bersier to the event, to which it invited 60 current and prospective clients – and had several of its private bankers in attendance...
DiCaprio and the bank have another, less high-profile link. The actor co-founded the Venturi team three years ago, which competes on the Formula E circuit. Julius Baer is the global sponsor for Formula E, the first fully-electric racing series...
DiCaprio chairs the circuit's Sustainability Committee, which Collardi also sits on. fia.com/news/leonardo-…
DiCaprio will be joined on the committee by the CEOs of the Championship Partners and Shareholders, as well as Alejandro Agag, CEO of Formula E Holdings.
Agag is currently Chairman of Addax and was joined in 2009 by Ignacio Muñoz Alonso, former CEO of Rothschild Bank in Spain, who worked for Lehman Brothers before that.
Shortly before the 2018 Marrakech E-Prix, it was revealed that FEH and the FIA had secured a title sponsor for Formula E, with a deal with Swiss manufacturing firm ABB bringing in $15 million for the series en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_E…
ABB CEO Björn Rosengren
member of the International Business Council (IBC) of the World Economic Forum #WEF and of the European Round Table for Industry.
During his career he built landmark buildings in America and across the world. He was heavily involved in preparing the interior designs for Eero Saarinen’s masterpiece, the TWA Terminal at Idlewild (later JFK) airport in New York
"Mr Platner was also widely admired for the quality of his interior design and the close attention he gave to his re-fits and enhancements of existing buildings...
Simon Rule, a director of Place Group, is also a director at Geometry Global Limited, registered at Sea Containers House, the location of a number of subsidiaries of PR and media company WPP plc..
Nudgestock is 'the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, curated by Ogilvy Consulting's Behavioural Science Practice'
Do you think Nudgestock has anything to do with nudging? 🤔 ogilvy.com/ideas/nudgesto…
Festival Speakers include Maya Shankar, former Senior Advisor in the Obama White House and Senior Director of Behavioral Economics at Google, talking public policy..
2015 : "Dalian Wanda chairman Wang Jianlin, the richest man in China, has denied his firm has political ties with people close to President Xi Jinping, attributing his business success to the company's competence.
"Wang admitted Xi's elder sister, Qi Qiaoqiao and her husband Deng Jiagui, once invested in Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties. But he said they sold their stake before it went public in Hong Kong in December."
"I have a lot of respect for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But if she does go ahead with a visit to Taiwan this week, against President Biden’s wishes, she will be doing something that is utterly reckless, dangerous and
Nothing good will come of it. ..These include a Chinese military response that could result in the U.S. being plunged into indirect conflicts with a nuclear-armed Russia and a nuclear-armed China at the same time..."
Thomas Hüblis a contemporary spiritual teacher of modern mysticism and inner science. His work focuses on collective trauma and conflict transformation...
In a presentation for this year’s [2020] Collective Trauma Summit, convened by Thomas Hübl, psychiatrist Dan Siegel reminds us:
'Collective trauma becomes intensified when it’s ignored.'
"This willingness to listen to the parts of ourselves that have been hurt requires a willingness to witness… and feel, our pain. This is not easy. As Brene Brown notes: