Cannes Lions will present the highly prestigious lifetime achievement award, the Lion of St. Mark, to Mary Wells Lawrence in 2020. Founder of New York advertising agency Wells Rich Greene in 1966, Mary Wells Lawrence was the first woman to found, own and run a major agency, as well as the first female CEO of a company traded on the Big Board of the New York Stock Exchange. Within its first year, Wells Rich Greene had 100 employees and $39 million in billings. By 1976 it had billings of $187…
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