Kim Johnson - Brand Innovators

Kim Johnson

EVP Global Clients, WPP

Kim has been successfully scaling marketing services and technology firms for 2 decades.  Kim joined WPP in 2020 as Executive Vice President focused on global client growth and transformation. Kim partners with WPP’s Global Client Leaders to ensure clients effectively access the best of WPP in order to maximize their partnership with the creative transformation company.

Results-driven and resilient, Kim is a strategic business leader with 2 dozen years of experience on both the service and client-side. Known for leading winning teams and winning leading clients, her passion is creating growth driving ventures for clients and companies. Kim possesses a high energy, highly connected leadership style with years of executive management including consistent growth across multiple operations.

After progressing through account leadership roles at Wunderman with clients like IBM, Kraft, Microsoft and The Wall Street Journal, she spent time focusing on health & wellness, including time client-side at Pfizer, where she led global brand marketing for one of their blockbuster brands. Kim’s entrepreneurial spirit led her to The Cementbloc where she greatly expanded the agency’s consumer and digital business, serving as Partner for several years.  In 2014, Kim became the President of PALIO, a Syneos Health agency with offices in NY & LA.  Following significant growth, Kim merged PALIO with sister Agency GSW and served as the President of the combined agency from 2018 -2020 where GSW was named most Creative agency by MM&M.