Hugh Salmon

Hugh Salmon, photographed for promotion of his play Into Battle, at Greenwich Theatre, London, UK; photographed at Abacus Arts, London, UK; 15 September 2021. Credit: Ellie Kurttz / ArenaPAL; www.arenapal.com Commercial licence can be obtained from www.arenapal.com Hugh Salmon is a British advertising executive and playwright, who wrote the play Into Battle.

Early career As the creator of SFX Cassette Magazine, the music magazine on audio cassette launched in 1982, Salmon pursued a career in advertising, media and marketing. Between 1988 and 1991, he was appointed to manage the Ogilvy (agency) office in Thailand, Ogilvy's fourth largest agency in the world. He later became managing director of CM:Lintas in London, and was in a five-year legal dispute (Hugh Salmon v Lintas Worldwide) to clear his name following accusations by the agency, which were eventually dropped by Lintas. The case was closed when Salmon was awarded significant damages and Lintas made a formal apology.

He is the son of Gerald Mordaunt Broome Salmon and the brother of rugby player, Jamie Salmon.

Into Battle His stage play Into Battle received its premiere at the Greenwich Theatre in London in October 2021.

The play tells the story of a bitter feud between the privileged Old Etonians at Balliol College, Oxford and a more socially aware group of non-Etonians during the run-up to the First World War. Following the case, Management Today published a piece by Matthew Lynn entitled "The whistleblower's dilemma" in which he looks into the difficulties employees face when whistleblowing and holding their colleagues to account.

Books 2012 – Do as You Would Be Done By 2016 – Thoughts on Life and Advertising 2017 – Ideas for Britain 2025 – The Faintest of Tickles - a new anthology of cricket writing with a Foreword by Daniel Norcross