Executive Bio
Mr. Daryl Lee serves as Global Chief Executive Officer of UM at McCann Worldwide, Inc. and served as its Global Chief Executive Officer of Universal. Mr. Lee is responsible for UM's global strategy, direction and operations, and oversees global management for UM's clients, including Coca-Cola, Hershey's, Johnson & Johnson and MasterCard. He has been Global Chief Executive Officer of UM at IPG Mediabrands S.A. Mr. Lee serves as Global Chief Executive Officer of UM at MediaBrands Worldwide, Inc. and The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. He served as Chief Strategy Officer at McCann-Erickson USA, Inc. He served as the Global Chief Strategy Officer at McCann Erickson, where he was responsible for working across all McCann offices to ensure clients received integrated brand solutions customized to their business and marketing challenges. He served as the Chief Integration Architect at McCann Worldgroup, Inc. since May 2010. In this post, Mr. Lee has responsibility for building and leading the strategic planning function across the Worldgroup companies to architect integrated marketing communications solutions. Earlier, he served as Head of Global Strategy for Universal McCann (UM), a Worldgroup company from 2006 to 2010, responsible for communications planning, insights and accountability teams, on such global brands as MasterCard, Sony, Microsoft, Chrysler and many others. Mr. Lee served as Joint Operating Board Member at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide and led the agency's IBM Strategy Group, developing a channel planning methodology for IBM that was later adopted as the standard for the agency worldwide. He began his career as a Consultant for McKinsey & Company, specializing in solving marketing challenges in the financial and healthcare industries, and determining the most effective methods to build brand loyalty for the Fortune 100 clients he supported. Mr. Lee has a D.Phil in English Literature from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.