Robin Wight CVO CBE was president of The Engine Group ('Engine') from 2008-2019. He was a co-founder of the advertising agency WCRS, which he set up in 1979 and which merged to become Engine Creative in 2020. He also established the Ideas Foundation in 2001: a charity which mentors young people, aged 14–20, from disadvantaged backgrounds, nurturing their hidden creativity and helping them to build a pathway into the creative industries. Early life Educated at Wellington College followed by St Catharine's College, Cambridge, Wight founded his first advertising agency whilst still an undergraduate at university. He left Cambridge before graduating to pursue a career in the advertising industry. He was described as "The Undergradman" by an article in The Guardian newspaper which led to his first job as a copywriter. Career Wight was soon employed at the advertising agency Collett Dickenson Pearce, during which time, in 1966, he won the D&AD Copy Prize for the best-written campaign of the year. He then moved to Richard Cope and Partners, taking the job of Creative Director with his long-term Art Director, Max Forsythe. In 1979 he co-founded the agency Wight, Collins, Rutherford and Scott ('WCRS'). Wight was the creative force behind a number of groundbreaking campaigns for 118 118, Orange, Carling Black Label and BMW. In 1984, Wight, Rutherford, Collins and Scott was the first advertising agency to go public on the AIM Stock Market and then used this position to acquire a network of agencies in both America, Asia and in Europe. Along the way, WCRS as it then became known, set up the Aegis Media Agency. WCRS was then sold by Aegis into the ownership of Havas in 1997 and Wight worked within the Havas owned WCRS for 14 successful years. In 2004 he was part of the WCRS management team that led the buyout from parent company Havas Advertising. He was subsequently made joint chairman of WCRS under the new structure and then President of Engine in 2008. In 2010 Wight stood down from the board of Engine to focus on his charitable interests, though he remains President of the UK company. Charitable work Wight has pursued many notable interests in addition to his work at WCRS and Engine. Between 1997 and 2002 he was Chairman of the Duke of Edinburgh Award's Charter for Business, a role for which he was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order