GroupM is the world’s largest advertising media company in terms of billings.[1] It is headquartered in New York City with over 17,000 employees and 400 global offices in 81 countries. GroupM was formed in 2003 by WPP Group to serve as the parent company of WPP's media agencies including Maxus, MEC, MediaCom, Mindshare, QUISMA, Xaxis, Outrider, Kinetic, Quasar,IEG, Movent and Agency M. It handles over 32% of the world's media billings making it the world's largest media investment management operation.[1] Irwin Gotlieb is the Global CEO of Group M. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GroupM
Maxus is 100% owned by WPP , the world's largest communications and marketing group. Companies in Norway GroupM represents more than half of media sales on all media channels. One of the advantages of GroupM is tremendous access to resources that help to give us better insight into the market, specific expertise in negotiation, content development, digital solutions, finance, computer tools, and other business-critical applications. This gives our customers the assurance not to mention the added value of media investments. http://www.maxusglobal.no/om-oss/nettverket-og-konsernet?PHPSESSID=d23356d2825ef4e821c1986179c42b38
I could imagine that Darlin replaces Liem as CFO of UCPA. That would explain why Liem is not named as nominee for the BOD and it would result in the (more common) 3:2 balance of internal to external BOD members.