Jonathan graduated from Newcastle University in Economics and immediately joined a full service agency, Cravens Advertising, in the City. After a year planning and buying across all media for Northern Rock, Allders and the Halifax, he joined OMD as a Trainee TV Buyer in 1995.

After a number of years working on clients such as Barclaycard, Boots, American Airlines and AXA, Jonathan was appointed to the board in January 2000.

In 2002 he broadened his role into that of Business Director, responsible for running a number of accounts including PepsiCo, easyJet and Barclaycard.

In Feb 2005 Jonathan was appointed Deputy Managing Director and in January 2007 he became Managing Director.

He currently sits on the IPA Strategy Group and the OMD Worldwide Creativity Council.