Stagwell Inc. (STGW) J.P. Morgan 54th Annual World Know-how, Media and Communications Convention Might 19, 2026 4:15 PM EDT
Firm Individuals
Mark Penn – Chairman & CEO
Presentation
Unknown Analyst
All proper. We’ll get began. I am comfortable to have again on the convention from Stagwell, Mark Penn, Chairman and CEO. Mark, thanks for being right here.
Mark Penn
Chairman & CEO
Thanks.
Query-and-Reply Session
Unknown Analyst
All proper. So Mark, we’re at an attention-grabbing second for the advertising trade, vital AI-driven change, consolidation amongst a few of your friends. We had the announcement yesterday that we’ll get to. However how do you see Stagwell is positioned? And the place are you most targeted at present?
Mark Penn
Chairman & CEO
Nicely, I believe we’re strongly positioned for AI. I believe AI and expertise itself was on the core of why I created Stagwell, once I was coming from being Chief Technique Officer at Microsoft. What I noticed was in my work with the opposite corporations was that they weren’t tech ahead sufficient and so they weren’t collaborative sufficient. And so forth day 1, we opened up actually a novel engineering crew that was purported to engineer innovation inside the advertising area. And in order AI actually got here alongside right here, this crew is now capable of produce AI advertising merchandise that actually sort of are half of an entire pivot to our enterprise, which could be very strongly positioned with digital transformation, however now could be making various headline merchandise, particularly AI based mostly. And so I believe it is come alongside at an excellent time for us.
Unknown Analyst
So that you reported Q1 earnings on the finish of April because it pertains to the macro, I did not hear any pink flags, however wished to see when you may simply replace on this, what
