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Ben Legg is a former COO of Google Europe and a three-time private equity-backed tech CEO, now a leading authority on AI and the future of work. Through his firm Digital People, he helps CEOs build agentic businesses and gives Wall Street investors operator-grade judgement on where value is being created and destroyed.
He is no retired executive trading on an old title: he advises five to ten senior leaders every week, from FTSE 100 boards to private equity and the tech hyperscalers, and tracks $1.2bn of annual digital ad spend across more than 300 companies. Ben Legg has a documented record of calling shifts before consensus, from the GDPR non-event to the rise of AI-powered micro-businesses, and doesnтАЩt just talk about AI; he builds with it daily.
His career runs from the British Army тАУ where, as a Royal Engineers officer, he helped lead the relief of the Siege of Sarajevo тАУ through McKinsey, a turnaround of Coca-Cola India, and hyperscaling at Google, where he wrote the monetisation blueprint for Search, YouTube and Mobile that is still in use today. He is the author of the award-winning тАЬMarketing for CEOs: Death or Glory in the Digital AgeтАЭ, and earlier founded The Portfolio Collective, a global community reshaping the future of work. On stage he is high-energy, candid and refreshingly practical.
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