Directorate Change

WPP Group PLC
28 April 2004


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                  28 April 2004





                             WPP GROUP PLC ("WPP")


                   WPP appoints Orit Gadiesh and Paul Spencer
                           as non-executive directors



WPP announces the appointment of two new non-executive directors to its Board:
Orit Gadiesh, who is Chairman of Bain & Company, Inc., the global strategy
consulting firm and Paul Spencer, former Chief Executive UK of Royal & Sun
Alliance PLC,  the multinational insurance company.  They join the Board with
immediate effect.



Ms Orit Gadiesh is a world-renowned expert on management and corporate strategy
who, as Chairman of Bain & Company, has advised a multiplicity of CEOs and
senior executives of major international companies on strategy development and
the implementation of change.   She has counseled top level management on
structuring and managing portfolios, developing and implementing global
strategy, executing turnarounds, improving organizational effectiveness, and
designing both cost reduction and growth programs.  Besides her Chairman role,
Ms Gadiesh continues to be directly involved with her own clients, spending time
mainly in North America and Europe, but also Asia.  She is a regular contributor
to business publications and a sought-after public speaker, addressing events
like the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and the World Knowledge
Forum in Asia.



A distinguished professional, Ms Gadiesh's achievements and outstanding
leadership have been publicly recognized, in the US and beyond, by a variety of
honors, including the 2000 Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award and
the 2000 Distinguished Leadership Award from IDC University.   She holds an MBA
from Harvard Business School and was a Baker Scholar.  Ms Gadiesh volunteers her
experience as a pragmatic strategist to the academic, business and civic
communities.   She is an active board or council member at Harvard Business
School and Kellogg School in the US and the Haute Ecole Commerciale in  France.
She sits on the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New England and of The
Peres Institute for Peace and is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.
She is a resident of Boston, Massachusetts, US.



Paul Spencer is a highly-experienced financier with over 20 years of
responsibility for the finances of blue chip public companies, including British
Leyland PLC, Rolls-Royce PLC, Hanson PLC and ultimately Royal & Sun Alliance PLC
("R&SA").   He joined R&SA in 1996 as Group Finance Director, moving to the role
of Chief Executive UK three years later, where his responsibilities included
managing operations with a turnover of £5.2 billion.



Prior to R&SA, Spencer spent 10 years as Associate Director, Treasurer at Hanson
PLC, at the time the eighth largest UK company with a market capitalisation of
£14 billion and over 100 trading subsidiaries in the US and UK.  He established
what became the respected Hanson Treasury department, was involved in their
complex investor relations and actively participated in numerous acquisitions
and disposals in the US and the UK.  Since leaving R&SA in 2002,  Spencer has
taken on the role of non-executive Chairman of State Street Managed Pension
Funds (funds £12 billion) and of Goshawk Insurance Group PLC.  He is a
non-executive director of NS & I (funds £62 billion), a UK government-owned
retail savings institution and of Britannic Group plc.  Spencer is Chairman of
the Association of Corporate Treasurers Advisory Board and lives in London.



ENDS



For further information, please contact:


Feona McEwan, WPP                          44-20 7408 2204
www.wpp.com




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