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Cilla Snowball, CBE
Group Chairman and Group CEO, AMV BBDO

Cilla graduated in French at Birmingham University. After working at ABM and Ogilvy, she joined AMV in 1992 as the agency’s first New Business Director. Twenty years later, she now oversees the five companies that comprise the AMV Group in the UK – AMV BBDO, Proximity, Redwood, Fishburn Hedges and Hub+.

Cilla sits on the boards of BBDO Worldwide, Comic Relief and Birmingham University and is past Chairman of the Marketing Group of Great Britain.

She was awarded the CBE in the 2009 New Year Honours list for services to the advertising industry and she was the 2011 media winner in the British Inspiration Awards.

Most importantly, she is Fred, Albert and Rosie’s mum.