Nick Lawson
Nick Lawson is a veteran international media and advertising leader with 30+ years building and running agencies for the world's biggest brands. He is Chairman of i-media and Non-Executive Chair of Project5 Media (from 2026). He was previously Global CEO of EssenceMediacom (2020–2025) and spent 29 years at MediaCom, where he served as Worldwide COO, CEO EMEA and CEO UK.
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Bio
Nick Lawson is a veteran international media and advertising leader with 30+ years building and running agencies for the world's biggest brands. He is Chairman of i-media and Non-Executive Chair of Project5 Media (from 2026). He was previously Global CEO of EssenceMediacom (2020–2025) and spent 29 years at MediaCom, where he served as Worldwide COO, CEO EMEA and CEO UK.
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- Appointed CEO of MGID, leading the platform's global growth strategy as an independent native advertising network
- Led Xaxis EMEA as CEO, overseeing one of Europe's largest programmatic advertising operations within GroupM