Cilla Snowball Explained

Dame Cilla Snowball
Honorific Suffix:	DBE
Birth Name:	Priscilla Deborah Snowball^[1]
Birth Date:	1958
Occupation:	Advertising and communications executive

Dame Priscilla Deborah Snowball, DBE, generally known as Cilla Snowball (born October 1958),^[2] is Group Chairman and Group Chief Executive of AMV BBDO, an advertising and communications group in the UK. She has worked for Abbott Mead Vickers for 20 years; in senior management positions since 2005, rising to agency head and now country head.^{[3] [4]}

Career

After graduating from the Birmingham University in 1981 (BA, French), she moved straight into the world of advertising where she joined Allen Brady Marsh. In 1983, she moved to Ogilvy and Mather before leaving for Abbott Mead Vickers nine years later. There she moved up in the company, taking first the post of Chief Executive, then chairman in 2004 and Group CEO and chairman in 2006.

On the board of BBDO Worldwide, Comic Relief and Birmingham University, she was appointed a CBE for services to advertising in 2009.^{[5] [6]} She is Chairman of the Advertising Association.^[7]

Other activities

Corporate boards

• Derwent London, Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors (since 2015)^[8]
• RAC Limited, Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors (since 2014)^[9]

Non-profit organisations

• Genome Research Limited (GRL), Member of the Board of Directors (since 2019)^{[10] [11]}
• Wellcome Trust, Member of the Board of Governors (since 2019)^[12]
• Women's Business Council, Chair (since 2016)

Recognition

In February 2013 Snowball was listed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.^[13] She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to advertising, diversity, and equality.

External links

• Financial Times - The Inventory: Cilla Snowball
• Management Today - Friends in High Places
• Photo of BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Power List

Notes and References

1. Web site: Contact and Trustees, Charity Projects (Comic Relief). Charity Commission. 14 March 2015.
2. Web site: Priscilla Deborah SNOWBALL - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House). beta.companieshouse.gov.uk.
3. Web site: Cilla Snowball, Chairman. Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO . 28 February 2009.
4. Web site: Cilla Snowball's Biographical Details. www.opportunitynow.org.uk. 27 February 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090405013039/http://www.opportunitynow.org.uk/events/csnowballbio.html. 5 April 2009. dead.
5. http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/870914/Chris-Powell-Cilla-Snowball-honoured/ Chris Powell and Cilla Snowball honoured
6. http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/news/search/870914/Chris-Powell-Cilla-Snowball-honoured/ Chris Powell and Cilla Snowball honoured
7. Web site: Women to Watch: Cilla Snowball, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO | Special Report: Women to Watch . AdAge . 4 June 2012. 2017-06-19.
8. https://www.derwentlondon.com/about/people/cilla-snowball
9. Ruth David and Aaron Kirchfeld (1 September 2014), Carlyle’s RAC Group Appoints Rake Chairman of Board of Directors Bloomberg News.
10. https://www.sanger.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/sanger-institute/genome-research-limited Board of Directors
11. https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news/view/appointments-and-changes-genome-research-limited-board Appointments and changes to the Genome Research Limited Board
12. https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/four-new-appointments-wellcomes-board-governors Four new appointments to Wellcome’s Board of Governors
13. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qlvb/features/power-list-100 Radio 4, Woman's Hour Power list