Suresh Raj

Suresh sits on the Executive Leadership Team at McCann New York. With over 24 years’ experience, Suresh has led growth at Ogilvy Group and Blue Focus Group (China’s largest marketing communications network). Suresh is a huge believer that visibility of diverse leaders is key to driving change in industry talent, and he users this platform to be a vocal and active champion of equity and equality, in and outside the marketing communications industry. He has been named onto the Empower and Outstanding FT, Yahoo! Finance and YouTube lists of Executive ethnically diverse Leaders and LGBTQ+ Leaders for 9 years running. More recently, he served on the Jury for the Cannes Lions, Glass: The Lion for Change, was named onto AdWeek’s Pride Star’s List as well as a Campaign 40 over 40 Award recipient. He is an advisory board member for Oliver Wyman, co-chair of the ANA LGBTQ+ Forum, and a member of the Cannes Lions / ANA CMO Growth Council, all of whom are focused on changing the landscape and success for diverse communities including LGBTQ+ within their industries.