As President of both Engine and WCRS, Robin was part of the management team that led the management buyout from Havas in 2004. Robin began his career by setting up a student advertising agency while he was still an undergraduate at Cambridge. After working as a copywriter in a number of agencies including Collett Dickinson Pearce and Partners, he co–founded Wight Collins Rutherford Scott with Peter Scott in 1979.

Though Robin Wight has spent his whole career in advertising, he has always had a number of outside interests. From 1982 to 1984, Robin served as the marketing adviser to the Right Hon Peter Walker when he was Minister for Agriculture before serving as a Council Member for Food from Britain between 1984 and 1988.

In 1989, he became Chairman of the NABS (National Advertising Benevolent Society) appeal raising nearly £4million for the industry.

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