Kiwi advertising guru Kevin Roberts has been put on leave from his role as chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi after a controversial interview in which he said that there was no gender bias in the advertising industry. Roberts moved to Auckland in 1989 to work for Lion Nathan, before going on to become global chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi in New York. When the publication remarked how the gender diversity debate raged on within the advertising industry he responded with: "Not in my view." This is a diverse world, we are in a world where we need, like we've never needed before, integration, collaboration, connectivity, and creativity." Roberts told them: "I think she's got problems that are of her own making.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 31, 2016 06:11 UTC