WPP's Top Communications Exec Chris Wade Stepping Down

by Steve McClellan @mp_mcclellan, July 7, 2025

Chris Wade, director communications and corporate affairs at WPP, is stepping down from the role after 13 years. He is being succeeded by Michael Frolich who joins from Weber Shandwick where he was global chief client and transformation officer and CEO of the EMEA region.

Wade said on his LinkedIn profile that he’d “been considering what's next and, as WPP prepares for a change of its own, it felt like a good moment to do something new.”

In June WPP announced that company CEO Mark Read would be stepping down at the end of the year. A search for his replacement is underway.

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