Australian ad agency founder Elizabeth Buchanan joins board of Sorrell’s S4 Capital
Australian expat ad veteran, Elizabeth Buchanan, is to join the board of Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital as a non-executive director.
New York-based Buchanan, who founded The White Agency in 2003 before selling it onto STW four years later, is currently a non-executive director at Vital Voices Global Partnership and until recently sat on the board of The Luke Batty Foundation.
Along with founding The White Agency, Buchanan also held senior roles at WPP AUNZ, OMD Worldwide and most recently martech startup, Rokt.

Everyone’s ‘thrilled’ until they’re not.
Doesn’t anybody in this industry have a fresher term when joining their next assignment?
Hello @NewJoinFever. I can assure you I really am thrilled. Perhaps you’d prefer “super-excited” and/or “proud as punch”, Im open to other suggestions? And honored Mumbrella noticed (once an Aussie always an Aussie, thanks @paulwallbank).
@NewJoinFever, Hope your day is thrilling 😉
For what it is worth I am thrilled for you. Seems like an appropriate term for a great person joining what seems like a brilliant business. Congrats.
Don’t feed the trolls Liz…and congrats!
Great move by S4 , Elizabeth will crush this and make S4 a formidable player.
Congratulations Elizabeth. S4 is very lucky.
In fact I suepct that S4 would be thrilled as well. That could help balance out @NewJoinFever’s negativity.
Elizabeth was not employed at OMD anywhere near as long as she claims – total of 6 months. Rokt is her 2nd husband’s company. The White Company is her 1st husband’s company. Is any of her experience actually real at all?
Amazing. Fascinating. Elizabeth Buchanan is now “President” of Rokt which is actually [Edited under Mumbrella’s comment moderation policy]