After resigning from MDC Partners in 2015, Miles Nadal built Peerage Capital Group, established the Dare to Dream Foundation, named multiple Canadian institutions, and entered the Canadian Marketing Association Hall of Legends. The post-MDC arc.
Stagwell Inc. (NASDAQ: STGW) is the fifth major advertising and communications holding company. Founded in 2015 by Mark Penn as a $250M private LLC, merged with MDC Partners in 2021, today 70+ agencies, 13,000+ employees, $2B+ revenue. The full arc.
The July 2015 MDC Partners and Hain Celestial governance scrutiny period became a reference case in holding-company governance crisis communications. The subsidiary-brand insulation problem, the Nadal and Simon disclosures, and what holding-company governance comms hardened into.
Miles Nadal built MDC Partners into one of the most influential advertising holding companies of the modern era — and after the 2015 disclosure episode resolved, built Peerage Capital, the Dare to Dream Foundation, and joined the Canadian Marketing Association Hall of Legends. The full arc.
