Ben Legg
Former COO of Google Europe and a leading authority on AI and the future of work.
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About Ben Legg
Ben Legg is a former COO of Google Europe and a three-time private equity-backed tech CEO. His career runs from the British Army – where, as a Royal Engineers officer, he helped lead the relief of the Siege of Sarajevo – through McKinsey, the 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.
Today, through his firm Digital People, Ben helps CEOs build agentic businesses and gives Wall Street investors operator-grade judgement on where value is being created and destroyed. 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. He has a documented record of calling shifts before consensus, from the GDPR non-event to the rise of AI-powered micro-businesses, and doesn’t just talk about AI; he builds with it daily.
Recent clients include Novo Nordisk, CVC, Tesco, DHL, AstraZeneca, Deloitte and SCG. He is a regular commentator on Bloomberg, the FT, the BBC and The Times, the author of the award-winning “Marketing for CEOs: Death or Glory in the Digital Age”, and earlier founded The Portfolio Collective. On stage he is high-energy, candid and refreshingly practical, sending audiences away with a blueprint for what to do on Monday morning.
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- Beyond the Hype: How to build an agentic business
- The Liquid Organisation: Configuring your business for human + AI collaboration
- Investing in an AI-Enabled World: Picking the likely winners and losers as AI becomes ubiquitous
- How AI will transform industries and the future of work
- Strategy in times of rapid change
Client Feedback
"Ben was the keynote speaker for our recent Senior Management Team event and his talk was a superb way to end the final day. We brought Ben in to help 80 of our senior leaders understand how to take SCG to the next level with AI. His session on building an Agentic Organisation was the perfect way to wrap up our event. Ben's unique ability to make AI feel accessible was key."
"He delivered on every count. In the run-up, Ben was flexible and collaborative, quick to tune the content to our specific audience. On the day, he was sharp, substantive and refreshingly hype-free. The Q&A ran over time because investors did not want to stop asking, and the conversations carried on until the end of the event. "
ILS Partners
"We invited Ben to keynote at our investor seminar at Euler ILS Partners in Switzerland, with a deliberately demanding brief: cut through the AI noise for a room of sophisticated institutional investors, give them a usable framework for separating the genuine winners from the hype in the AI wave, and send them away with practical ways to put AI to work in their own lives (both work and personal)."
ILS Partners
