Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> December 4, 2000

Sean Orr – The Interpublic Group Of Companies Inc (ipg)

SEAN F. ORR is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. He comes to Interpublic from Pepsico, Inc., where he was Senior Vice President and Controller. Prior to that, he was with Frito-Lay Company (a subsidiary of Pepsico) where he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1996 to 1997. He started his career with KPMG Peat Marwick in 1976 and became a Partner in 1986. He joined Reader's Digest Association, Inc., in 1990 as Vice President and Controller. Mr. Orr graduated summa cum laude from Boston College in Mathematics. Profile
TWST: Could you please give us a brief overview of Interpublic Group?

Mr. Orr: We're one of the big three global advertising and marketing

service holding companies, with revenues approaching