Marc Lewis at SPEAKERS for BUSINESS

Marc Lewis

Creative Problem Solver and Entrepreneur

Full Profile

Marc was expelled from school for the last time in 1989 at the age of sixteen, just a few weeks before he was due to sit his exams. It would not be an understatement to claim that he was expected to come to nothing. But then Marc won a competition in The Guardian newspaper that offered a scholarship at the world’s most prestigious advertising school where he was educated in the ways of creativity by John Gillard, a legendary educator from the advertising industry. Marc was then sent to South Africa by an advertising agency but turned his back on advertising to open South Africa’s first comedy club, which quickly became a chain.

On returning to London, Marc started an Internet company. It was bought for just under £20 million in 2000. Marc then turned to the mobile revolution and is the only entrepreneur to have been awarded two international Red Herring 100 awards for two different companies in the same year. Both were for innovative technologies in the mobile space.

Marc’s companies have won numerous international awards for innovation including;

Retail Week – Most Innovative;
Retail Week – Grand Prix
European Retail Solutions – Most Innovative Business
Direct Response Intelligence – Innovation of the Year
Mobile Marketing – Most Innovative use of Mobile.

Marc is also an author, his second book will be published in late 2008 and sets out his approach to creativity. His new book and his public speaking career focus on transmitting the ways of creativity.

His next project is reopening The School of Communication Arts, which closed in 1994. He hopes to revive its reputation as of the most important and loved schools of creativity and develop another generation of creative thinkers possessing the commercial nous to survive and succeed in the competitive world of marketing.

Marc is married to an Occupational Psychologist, Rachel, and has an eleven-year-old son, Luc.