Cannes Lions Was Powered by Rosé, AI And Billion-Dollar Deals: LUMA Partners CEO Terry Kawaja

CANNES, FRANCE – If Cannes Lions is supposed to be the advertising industry’s annual celebration of creativity, this year’s festival added another attraction: investment bankers quietly checking their phones between yacht parties. According to Terry Kawaja, founder and chief executive of LUMA Partners, dealmaking was impossible to ignore on the Croisette. The mergers, acquisitions and […]

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