Industry leaders in Strategy, Creative, and AI join S4 Capital’s Monks to elevate its global partnership with Google

Monks—the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc—has appointed three industry heavyweights to key roles on its global Google business. These new leaders strengthen Monks’ long-standing partnership with Google and mark the latest in a series of strategic global leadership updates this year.

Robyn Pierre-Lys, Chris Linden, and Chad Weaver join Monks in dedicated global roles: Pierre-Lys as SVP Global Head of Strategy, Linden as Global Group Creative Director, and Weaver as SVP Global Head of Client Solutions. Together, they bring world-class creative and strategic expertise paired with deep AI capabilities—advancing Monks’ mission to redefine what an agency partnership with Google can be.

Monks has worked with Google for over a decade, and today more than 600 dedicated Google Monks collaborate daily with Google teams, their top partners, and their largest Cloud customers. By pairing creative and strategic expertise with AI-first workflows built exclusively for Google, Monks delivers at global scale, supporting several of Google’s key brand and product areas, including Gemini, Android, YouTube, Pixel, Chrome, Ads, and many more—across immersive XR/VR/AR experiences, social-first campaigns and AOR engagements, high-profile events, media tech solutions, full-funnel B2B programs, and industry-shaping AI innovations.

Monks has become one of Google’s preferred AI partners by consistently pushing the boundaries of innovation, accelerating AI adoption across the entire Google ecosystem, and developing proprietary tools like Monks.Flow—purpose-built and optimized specifically for Google initiatives.