Kevin Roberts of Saatchi & Saatchi Resigns

The Saatchi chairman said he will leave the agency as of September 1, 2016. Last week, Roberts drew the ire of many within the organization and the industry for comments made about gender diversity in agency leadership. According to Advertising Age, Mr. Roberts issued a statement this morning offering an apology. “‘Fail fast, fix fast, learn fast” is a leadership maxim I advocate,” he said. “When discussing with Business Insider evolving career priorities and new ways of work/life integration, I failed exceptionally fast.”

“The Supervisory Board and the Chairman and CEO of Publicis Groupe took note of Kevin Roberts’s decision to step down with effect from September 1st 2016, prior to his retirement date due in May 2017,” the holding company said in a statement.

Read more at Advertising Age.