Somnigroup’s Tom Murray to deliver 2026 Irwin Warren Lecture in Advertising and Digital Media

Tom Murray, chief marketing officer of Somnigroup International Inc., will deliver the 2026 Irwin Warren Lecture in Advertising and Digital Media 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, in Pence Hall’s Wrigley Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Murray was appointed chief marketing officer at Somnigroup earlier this year. He joined the mattress manufacturer in 2018, serving as executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Tempur Sealy U.S. until 2025, when he assumed the role of Somnigroup executive vice president, special projects.

Prior to joining Somnigroup, Murray was employed by the Gillette Co., which was acquired by Proctor & Gamble in 2005, from 1994 to 2007. He has also held senior vice president of marketing positions in leading consumer technology companies like TomTom Inc., Carbonite and ADT. Murray earned a bachelor’s degree from Fairfield University and attended the University of Connecticut Graduate School of Business.

The Irwin Warren Lecture in Advertising and Digital Media is an annual lecture hosted by the Department of Integrated Strategic Communication and the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information.

The lecture honors Irwin Warren, a pioneer of some of the nation’s leading advertising campaigns. During his more than 40-year advertising career, Warren worked at Doyle Dane Bernbach, BBDO and other leading agencies before moving to McCann Erickson, the world’s largest advertising agency, where he retired as senior creative director in 2006. This series was established in 2015 by Warren’s co-worker at Johnson & Johnson, Patrick Mutchler, a UK School of Journalism and Media graduate.