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Terry Peigh is Senior Vice President, Managing Director of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies and a member of its Operating Committee and Executive Committee. Following his arrival at IPG in early 2003, Peigh assumed direct responsibility for management of the company’s global real estate, procurement, travel, and marketing information services. In addition, Peigh assists David Bell on a range of corporate development projects.
Prior to joining Interpublic, Peigh was Executive Vice President and member of the Board of Foote, Cone & Belding Worldwide.
From 1998 to 2001, Peigh was EVP, Director of Corporate Operations of True North Communications (which was acquired by Interpublic in 2001), where he was a member of the True North Management Board, with a direct reporting relationship to the Chairman/CEO. Peigh ’s responsibility was to create the company’s first-ever shared service group, as well as manage its human resources, IT and real estate functions.
Peigh’s additional corporate responsibilities included management of True North’s Corporate Communications Group, which helped shape public and Wall Street perceptions of the company. Peigh also served as a member of the Board of Directors of NASDAQ-listed Modem Media a digital communications company owned in part by True North.
Prior to his corporate role, Peigh worked for 22 years in various management roles at FCB, most recently as Worldwide Account Director on Cadbury Schweppes and Kimberly-Clark. Here he led the growth of these accounts to over 30 countries and served as one of the agency’s trailblazers in developing global marketing and communications programs.
Peigh has advised groups (including many linked to the U.S. Department of State’s Agency of International Development) on how best to use modern-day marketing principles to advance the acceptance of health practices in the developing world. In this capacity, he also consulted on a major USAID assessment of their global social marketing programs.
Peigh is co-author of two books on communications for social marketing, and serves as Vice Chairman on the Board of Trustees of the Washington, DC-based Population Reference Bureau a think tank on global population and development issues.
Peigh received his BS from Northwestern University in 1974 and his MBA, with honors, from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Peigh has served on the Board of Trustees of the Goodman Theatre, and as the founding President of the Goodman’s Discovery Board.
Peigh resides in Chicago with his wife Cindy, son Graham, and daughter Lindsay.
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