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Nirvik Singh to Join Monks International Leadership Team and, as a First Step, Lead EMEA Business, Accelerating Regional Growth and Real-Time Marketing

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Former Grey Group Global COO and President International brings over 35 years of global marketing leadership to scale Monks’ unitary model, uniting creative craft, media intelligence, and technology across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

LONDON and AMSTERDAM and MUNICH and DUBAI, UAE and RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — S4Capital’s Monks, the global digital-first marketing, advertising, and technology services company (S4Capital plc, SFOR.L), today announced the appointment of Nirvik Singh to the Executive Leadership Team, initially focusing on its EMEA business as CEO EMEA Marketing Services, effective 1 October 2026. Singh, who joined the S4Capital Board of Directors as an independent Non-Executive Director in May 2025, steps into the regional executive leadership role to accelerate commercial momentum, unify multi-market operations, and scale Monks’ integrated, real-time marketing offerings across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. As a result, he will retire from the S4Capital Board.

Building on the continued strengthening of Monks’ senior leadership across EMEA, Singh will work closely with Chief Revenue Officer EMEA Alex Oberberg, appointed earlier this year, and the EMEA country managing directors. Reporting directly to Bruno Lambertini, Monks CEO, Marketing Services, Singh will lead the region’s business, bringing together brand strategy, creative craft, content orchestration, and data-driven media under Monks’ unitary operating model.

Singh brings more than 35 years of global marketing, communications, and operational leadership across five continents. Most recently, he served as Global Chief Operating Officer and President International at Grey Group, overseeing business operations across Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Throughout his career, Singh has partnered with marquee enterprise brands, which include Procter & Gamble, The Coca-Cola Company, Volvo, BAT, and Haleon, navigating complex regional dynamics while orchestrating creative strategy, technology, and commercial impact.

“Nirvik’s appointment marks an exciting milestone for Monks as enterprise CMOs increasingly move away from the fragmented rosters, conflicting incentives, and slow cycles of legacy holding companies,” said Bruno Lambertini, Monks CEO, Marketing Services. “Modern brands must move at the speed of culture. To achieve that real-time relevance, clients need an agile partner who breaks down the artificial barriers between creative, media, and tech. Having worked closely with Nirvik on our Board, I know his operational rigor, global network expertise, and shared conviction in our unitary model make him uniquely equipped to scale our EMEA presence.”

“Marketers today face an acute tension: they need operational efficiency under tight budgets, but cannot compromise on brand craft, distinction, and measurable growth,” said Nirvik Singh, CEO EMEA Marketing Services. “Monks was built from day one as a unified engine. By pairing world-class creative craft with real-time media intelligence and enterprise AI orchestration, we empower brands to show up authentically in cultural moments and drive immediate business results. I’m thrilled to transition from the Board into the international leadership role, working with our teams across EMEA to help clients navigate that tension and accelerate the region’s next phase of growth.”

Looking ahead to 2027, Singh’s leadership will drive a bold expansion phase across EMEA, fueled by next-generation enterprise partnerships and the broader rollout of Monks.Flow — Monks’ proprietary AI and workflow platform. By embedding real-time media intelligence, human-in-the-loop creative curation, and automated content orchestration deeper into client workflows, Monks enters 2027 uniquely positioned to redefine how global brands achieve cultural relevance, operational efficiency, and commercial impact across the region.

About Monks

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services and a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Digital Marketing Agencies. It ranks among Cannes Lions’ Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization (2025), Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in the Human-Machine Interaction Team category. Additionally, Monks.Flow earned AI-based Marketing Solution of the Year at the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards and a 2026 Global Generative AI Award in the Agentic Marketing Innovation category. Finally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

About S4 Capital

S4Capital is a purely digital advertising and marketing services business built for global, multinational, regional, and local clients and millennial-driven influencer brands. The business operates through two data and digital media driven Practices: Marketing Services and Technology Services, emphasising “faster, better, efficient and more” execution in an always-on consumer-led environment. Its unitary structure positions the Company as a systems integration partner delivering real-time relevance in the post-agency era.

The Company now has approximately 6,150 people in 34 countries with approximately 81% of net revenue across the Americas, 14% across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 5% across Asia-Pacific. The longer-term objective is a geographic split of 60%:20%:20%. Marketing Services accounted for approximately 91% of net revenue and Technology Services 9%. The target allocation is a practice split of 75%:25%.

Sir Martin Sorrell was CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a £1 million ‘shell’ company in 1985 into the world’s largest advertising and marketing services company, with a market capitalisation of over £16 billion on the day he left. Prior to that, Sir Martin was Group Financial Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Company Plc for nine years.

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kate.richling@monks.com
1.402.850.3666

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Evelyn.Hsu@monks.com
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UK digital pathology provider Source BioScience chooses Sectra to enable seamless pathology collaboration across the NHS

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LINKÖPING, Sweden, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) has signed an agreement with Source BioScience UK Ltd (Source BioScience) in the UK to deliver its service for advanced share and collaborate workflows. As the first Sectra customer in this domain, Source BioScience will now be able to support NHS organisations that need to send pathology cases to external specialists. This lays the foundation for national telepathology networks in the UK, and for improved access to specialist pathologists.

The service, Sectra Image Exchange Portal (Sectra IEP), is a cloud-based, vendor-neutral platform for exchanging and collaborating around medical images. It is already used by more than 500 institutions, mainly within radiology. Recently, the service has undergone substantial modernisation which now makes it possible for healthcare providers to benefit from new advanced workflow functionality, for the service to be used by specialties other than radiology and for customers to move beyond image sharing to managing workflows between organisations.

“This milestone integration will give the NHS a seamless digital pathway to external specialists, with diagnoses delivered straight back into its own records – reducing turnaround times, easing consultant shortages and tackling reporting backlogs,” says Nick Bills, Healthcare Director at Source BioScience.

Source BioScience is a UK laboratory services provider specialising in histopathology and genomics. Its pathology business supports more than 85 NHS trusts alongside a network of private healthcare clinics, with histopathology delivered from laboratories in Nottingham, Chichester and Cambridge.

NHS pathology services are handling growing case volumes with a limited number of reporting consultants, and increasing subspecialisation means the pathologist best suited to a case is often at another organisation. Sending work to external capacity providers today typically relies on bespoke arrangements between individual laboratories, including the transportation of physical glass slides. This slows reporting times and creates administrative overhead for both the sending and receiving laboratories. With Sectra’s service, a case can be created as a job directly from a laboratory’s worklist, delegated to a receiving organisation, and the completed report returned to the referring organisation’s own records.

“IEP is the backbone of image sharing across the NHS. With our modernised platform, we are introducing advanced workflows between healthcare organisations, and extending that trusted national network into pathology. Connecting trusts directly with external specialists like Source BioScience means cases and completed reports move seamlessly across organisational boundaries. It is a step towards an NHS where expertise is always within reach, and where work moves between organisations as easily as it moves within them,” says Jane Rendall, Managing Director for Sectra UK and Ireland.

The three-year contract was signed in the second quarter of Sectra’s 2026/2027 fiscal year. Up to 60,000 cases are expected during the first year, scaling up in subsequent years.

Source BioScience Media Contact:
Klaudyna Johnstone, Commercial Director, klaudyna.johnstone@sourcebioscience.com 

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Marie Ekström Trägårdh, Executive Vice President Sectra AB and President Sectra Imaging IT Solutions, 46 (0)708 23 56 10

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askelie® opens its Operational AI Platform to customers and partners

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New platform makes proven AI capabilities available for MSPs, software vendors and business users to configure and compose

LONDON, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — askelie® today announced the launch of its Operational AI Platform, opening the proven technology behind its enterprise AI solutions to MSPs, software vendors and business users.

The platform enables customers and partners to configure and compose AI-powered solutions using proven, reusable askelie capabilities. Rather than building an AI foundation from scratch, organisations can combine existing capabilities to address real business needs — providing a practical route from AI ambition to business value, with faster time to value, lower cost and less risk.

“We’ve spent years using askelie to rapidly deliver enterprise-grade AI solutions. What we’re doing now is opening that capability up,” said Derek Kilroe, CEO and Founder, askelie. “For the first time, MSPs, software vendors and business users can take proven AI capabilities and configure and compose their own solutions for real business operations — without having to build the underlying AI platform themselves.”

Built around Understand • Decide • Act • Control, the platform brings together AI intelligence, data, knowledge, workflows, enterprise integrations, security and governance.

At launch, customers and partners can configure and compose existing capabilities to create and adapt AI-powered Assistants and Automations around specific business needs. The platform provides the foundation for increasingly sophisticated AI applications, including Digital Workers and Autonomous Applications.

“Customers shouldn’t have to assemble an AI technology stack before they can solve a business problem,” said Ian Halliday-Pegg, Chief Product Officer, askelie. “askelie brings the capabilities needed for operational AI together in a platform that can be combined and reused for different needs.”

The platform is designed to be practical, affordable and trusted. Proven, reusable capabilities reduce the need to build enterprise AI from scratch; model choice and consumption-based pricing help control costs; and security, governance, human oversight and auditability are built into the platform.

The platform also enables MSPs to configure and reuse AI-powered services across customers, while software vendors can extend existing products, enhance them with external data and context, and configure new AI-powered capabilities.

The askelie Operational AI Platform is available from 21 September 2026.

For more information, visit www.askelie.io

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Huawei Upgrades Stellar AI WAN Solution to Drive All Intelligence Across Industries

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SHANGHAI, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei unveiled its upgraded Stellar AI WAN Solution. Centered on ultimate computing efficiency and multi-dimensional security, this solution addresses cross-region computing challenges in efficiency, cost, and security, driving all intelligence across industries in the AI era.

Stellar AI WAN for Intelligent Connectivity

Amid the rapid expansion of AI computing power, deploying new compute infrastructure in the West has made remote invocation the new norm. However, traditional networks face three critical issues relating to cross-region computing.

Severe efficiency loss: Invoking computing power across 1,000 km can incur a 37% efficiency loss from a mere 0.073% packet loss.High on-premise costs: Local compute deployment costs from 1 million RMB per branch.Expensive private lines: Enterprises spend around 1.2 million RMB annually on 10G private lines.

To address this, Leon Wang, President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, introduced the Stellar AI WAN Solution, enabling lossless delivery of computing power over 1,000 km for a local-like remote computing experience. The XH computing-network appliance uses a unique layerwise model partitioning algorithm to run the initial and final layers of inference locally while offloading intermediate layers to remote infrastructure. With the network transmitting only high-dimensional vectors, raw data remains on-premises. The appliance requires just two xPUs to match a traditional 8-xPU setup, slashing xPU costs by 75%. The updated Starnet lossless algorithm cuts bandwidth idle time by over 80% and reduces required bandwidth fivefold, further lowering cross-region computing costs.

Stellar AI WAN for Security

As global security threats intensify, novel vectors like APTs and HNDL attacks continue to emerge. To address these, Huawei provides a three-layer defense for WANs.

Device layer: Intrinsic security boards detect and block intrusions in real time, tracing threats within minutes at over 95% accuracy.Link layer: Built-in QKD delivers robust quantum security without extra devices or fibers, slashing costs by over 60%. An adaptive noise suppression algorithm extends QKD transmission past 80 km.Network layer: APN6-based data fencing enables network-wide control over traffic paths, ensuring data travels exclusively within secure networks with intrinsic security and quantum encryption deployed.

Looking ahead, Huawei will continually upgrade the Stellar AI WAN Solution, deepening its computing-network synergy and multi-dimensional security. Together with partners, Huawei aims to reinforce the intelligent network foundation and accelerate all intelligence across enterprises.

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