Saatchi global CCO admits executive chairman’s diversity comments ‘upset’ employees

Saatchi & Saatchi have wheeled out their chief creative officer Kate Stanners in a damage limitation push after widespread criticism of remarks made by executive chairman Kevin Roberts, who claimed that the gender diversity debate in the advertising industry was ‘done’.
Acknowledging the criticism Stanners conceded that these unguarded comments had ‘upset a huge amount of employees’, adding: ‘I don’t believe in what he’s saying.’
Speaking to BB