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Honoured by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, David Jones is an industry visionary, proponent of corporate responsibility and social change, The GuardianтАЩs 2013 Sustainable Business Leader, recognised by Goldman Sachs as one of 2024тАЩs Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs and most recently by the French Ministry of Culture-backed Grand Prix des Agence d lтАЩAnn├йe as Entrepreneur of the Year.
In June 2015, after raising $350 million, David Jones launched The Brandtech Group, a technology holding company that helps brands do their marketing better, faster and cheaper.
The Brandtech Group now has over 7000 employees in 40 countries and in excess of $1bn revenue. In addition, they have launched 2 start-ups and made 34 investments, including a $20 million investment in Pinterest, 3 years ahead of their IPO, as well as being the first external investor in Niantic (Pok├йmon Go). The groupтАЩs clients include Unilever, Adidas, Morgan Stanley, TikTok, Microsoft, Reebok, PayPal, Meta, Hertz, Marriott, LVMH, Renault-Nissan, Danone, Google and Reckitt and it now works with 8 of the top 10 global marketers and 60 of the top 100 (source: Ad Age).
The Brandtech Group was recognised by Fast Company as one of the WorldтАЩs Most Innovative Companies 2021 and named to CB Insights list of the worldтАЩs most valuable private unicorns.
Previously David Jones was the youngest global CEO in the history of advertising, heading both Havas and Havas Worldwide, and the only British CEO of a French publicly traded company. Under DavidтАЩs leadership, HavasтАЩ share price reached a 10-year high, delivering record profits every reporting period, increasing its market capitalisation by 66% and creating over $1 billion of shareholder value.
David Jones was one of the founding members of the Facebook Client Council. He was inducted into the American Advertising FederationтАЩs Hall of Achievement in 2005 and was voted one of the two top executives of the decade by readers of Adweek. David was also named one of BritainтАЩs 500 Most Influential people by The Sunday Times.
He is the co-founder of One Young World (described by CNN as the тАЬYoung DavosтАЭ), a nonprofit organisation that provides brilliant young leaders with a global platform through which to effect positive change, and was the driving force behind Kofi AnnanтАЩs TckTckTck Campaign for Climate Justice.
David also advised David Cameron and the UK Conservative Party from 2007 up to and including CameronтАЩs election as prime minister in 2010. David Jones is also the creator of the Social Business Idea and author of best-selling book Who Cares Wins: Why Good Business Is Better Business, published in 2011 by Pearson/Financial Times Publishing in over 50 countries.
David Jones resides in NY, is married with 4 children, and speaks fluent French and German. He is the Chair of the One Young World Board of Trustees and sits on the boards of the British & Irish Lions, the Lyc├йe Francais de New York and the board of Albertine an integral part of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the USA.
He was a member of both the Anheuser-Busch InBev and LтАЩOr├йal sustainability boards as well as the Paris 2024 Olympics тАЬSport & SocietyтАЭ bid committee.
