Lance Maerov

Mr. Lance Maerov serves as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at WPP Group USA, Inc. where he manages WPP’s Corporate Development team in North America and his primary focus is to identify, negotiate and execute acquisitions, investments and joint ventures. Mr. Maerov began his work for the Corporate Development Group in March 2005 in New York after WPP’s acquisition of Grey Global Group. He serves as Senior Vice President of Grey Ventures. Before joining WPP, Mr. Maerov worked at Grey Global Group as its Head of Corporate Development and made over 20 venture investments on behalf of Grey through its Grey Ventures Subsidiary. Prior to joining Grey, Mr. Maerov handled acquisitions and investments for Reed Business Information, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier. He was a Founder of iFusion and raised $20 million of venture capital on its behalf over 1995-1997 before joining Reed Elsevier. Mr. Maerov served as Director of Expression Engines Inc. He serves as Board Observer of Visible Technologies, Inc. and served as its Board Advisor. Mr. Maerov holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and Bachelors Degree in Political Science from the University of Vermont.