06 February, 2007

With Steve Williams’ promotion to CEO of OMD UK Group, Jonathan Allan, or “JA” as he is more affectionately known, steps into Steve’s shoes as Managing Director of OMD UK.

JA has sped through the ranks after joining OMD UK as a graduate TV buyer in 1995, before being promoted to the Deputy MD position in 2005.

In an interview with Media Week, when quizzed as to what marked him out as leadership material, JA said: “I have worked on both sides of the business. I get planning, I get buying and I get our clients. I have always got on well with people here, both peers and bosses […] I enjoy what I do and I think that comes across in the way I am – enthusiastic and energetic.”

JA’s plans for his first year at the helm are typically ambitious ‘by the end of this year I would like to have secured several major pieces of new business, retained our current client list and won Media Week’s Agency of the Year award’.