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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Chairman operating in the Digital Marketing space. If you think a Chairman is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Julian Pullan
Vice Chairman & President International of Jack Morton Worldwide
Julian joined Jack Morton in 2002 as director of operations in London and became managing director in 2005. He joined the Global Executive Team in 2009, became President, EMEA in 2011 and was appointed President, International in 2015. Under his leadership, the International operation has grown significantly in size and reputation, including the foundation of Jack offices in Dubai, Germany, and South Korea. Today, Julian is Vice Chairman of Jack Morton Worldwide, stewarding the creative quality and output of the agency in addition to his continued leadership of the agency outside of the US. In his 30 years in the industry, Julian has led major communications campaigns and projects for most of the world’s leading brands. Julian remains a passionate creative at heart, winning many creative awards during his accomplished career. Teams under his leadership have earned over 500 awards, including well over 100 in just the last 2 years. He has served as a member of the board of the International Visual Communications Association, is a regular commentator within the industry trade press and event circuit and is a member of the Superbrands Council.
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About Jack Morton Worldwide: Jack Morton Worldwide is an American multinational brand experience agency.
Chris Bell
Chairman of the Board of Directors of XLMedia
Chris Bell Is The CEO At Ladbrokes PLC.
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About : XLMedia is a provider of digital marketing services. They use proprietary tools and methodologies to drive high value traffic.
David Tyler
Chairman of Sainsbury’s
Appointed to the Board on 1 October 2009, David became Chairman on 1 November 2009. He is also Non-Executive Chairman of Hammerson PLC and a Non-Executive Director of Burberry Group PLC. He was previously Finance Director of GUS PLC (1997-2006) and has held senior financial and general management roles with Christie’s International PLC (1989-96), County NatWest Limited (1986-89) and Unilever PLC (1974-86). He was Chairman of Logica PLC (2006-12) and of 3i Quoted Private Equity PLC (2007-09), and a Non-Executive Director of Experian PLC (2006-12) and of Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC (2007-09). He has also been Chairman of Hampstead Theatre since 2012.
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About Sainsbury’s: Sainsbury’s operates supermarkets and convenience stores, an online grocery and general merchandise operation, as well as Sainsbury’s Bank.
Andrea Radrizzani
Chairman & Founder of Aser Ventures
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About Aser Ventures: Aser Ventures is an investment platform specialising in sports, media and entertainment.
Jon Wilkins
Executive Chairman of Karmarama
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About Karmarama: Karmarama is a full service communications agency, combining creative excellence with technology-inspired solutions
Jon Myers
Strategy Consultant & CAB Chairman of DeepCrawl
Experienced senior leader with over 19 years’ experience within the digital marketplace working for large corporate organisations to start ups within the sector. Currently the Chief Growth Officer of DeepCrawl. www.deepcrawl.com Jon has been working in Digital Marketing since 1997, first agency side, working for Latitude Digital Marketing as one of the original core team members. Then he moved to MediaVest, part of Starcom Mediavest (now part of Aegis), and grew their Search department from around 20 to over 40 people, including setting up the SEO team. After working agency side for 13 years, Jon moved to Yahoo! to head up their search business and display account management. After 2 years at Yahoo! Jon was head-hunted for the position as VP & Commercial Director EMEA with a view of becoming VP & Managing Director of Marin Software EMEA. In his time heading up Marin Software in the EMEA region, Jon helped grow the company; doubling the international revenues, opening new offices and assisted developing the product offering. Also he was part of the exec management team taking Marin Software through IPO in March 2013. Whilst being VP & MD EMEA at Marin Software the company won the following awards: Best PPC Management Software – UK Search Awards in 2011, 2013 and 2014 Best PPC Management Software – European Search Awards 2012, 2013 and 2015 Best Use of Search – Finance with Moneysupermarket.com at European Search Awards in 2014 Best use of PPC Innovation with Moneysupermarket.com at the DADI Awards in 2014 More receltly with DeepCrawl awards for: Best B2B Technology – B2B Expo Awards 2017 Best Search Tool – MENA Search Awards 2017 Jon is seen as a thought leader in the digital marketing industry and speaks, keynotes, chairs and moderates at industry events worldwide. Jon is a regular judge at notable industry awards in the UK and Europe. He contributes regularly to the online and offline digital marketing and mainstream press, as well as trains, mentors and supports up and coming marketers.
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