DAVID JONES
Global Chief Executive Officer Euro RSCG Worldwide
David Jones’ career has been characterized by incredible accomplishments executed at a very young age. He was appointed to the position of Global CEO for Euro RSCG Worldwide in 2005, at the age of 38. One year later, the agency was named “2006 Global Agency of the Year” by Advertising Age and “2006 Advertising Network of the Year” by Campaign, the top advertising industry publications in the United States and United Kingdom, respectively. He also currently serves as Managing Director of Havas, the agency’s holding company.
In June 2006, David led the agency to win the global Reckitt Benckiser advertising account, with estimated billings of over $1.3 billion dollars annually, the industry’s largest advertising business win of the year.
David was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s “Hall of Achievement” in 2005, and was named to the “40 Under 40” lists of both Crain’s New York Business and Advertising Age the following year. In 2006, the Financial Times and Aviva named him one of the Top 5 European Pioneering Thought Leaders. More recently, David Jones has been selected by The World Economic Forum as one of the 2008 Young Global Leaders, joining 245 leading executives, public figures and intellectuals – all age 40 or younger – chosen from around the world.
Prior to assuming his current role as Global CEO, David was CEO of the New York office, where he managed an unprecedented new business and creative renaissance. In under a year, the agency became one of New York’s hottest shops, winning more than $500 million in new business, including the global Jaguar car business and the North American Charles Schwab account. Under David’s leadership, Euro RSCG New York was also awarded significant assignments from Heineken, ExxonMobil, Verizon, Howard Stern on Sirius, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, and Schering-Plough.
David was previously Euro RSCG’s London-based Executive Vice President of Global Business, leading all of the agency’s 42 multinational clients.
He joined Euro RSCG Partnership Australia in 1998 as Managing Director and one year later was appointed Chief Executive Officer. Under his leadership, Euro RSCG Partnership Australia was named “Australia’s Agency of the Year” in 2000 and 2001. It was also named Australia’s “Interactive Agency of the Year” no fewer than four times.
Prior to joining Euro RSCG, David was the youngest-ever board director at AMV/BBDO, Ltd., one of the United Kingdom’s leading advertising agencies. He has also worked at Lowe Europe, J. Walter Thompson, and BDH/TBWA. He possesses an extensive breadth and depth of experience working with many of the world’s premier marketers, including Unilever, Mars, Nestlé, Pizza Hut, Dell, Intel, Volvo, Orange, Cadbury, Braun, British Telecom, Siemens, and Henkel.
David has lived and worked in the United States, France, Germany, Australia, and the U.K. and speaks fluent French and German.
