Tim O’Kennedy became the Chief Executive of D&AD in 2009. His career began at Saatchi & Saatchi London in the early 1980s, following which he was hired by Jay Chiat as ‘one of the first Account Planners in the US advertising industry’. After 2 years at Wieden + Kennedy Portland steering the original ‘Just Do It’ campaign, O’Kennedy became International Marketing Director at Nike. O’Kennedy returned to Europe with Nike in 1994 and later joined The Lowe Group Europe as Chief Operating Officer. He was a founding partner of marketing agency Circus in 1998 and subsequently became Managing Director at Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam, where he remained until the end of 2007. O’Kennedy currently serves as a non-executive director of digital creative agency Perfect Fools in Stockholm and of communications agency Indie in Amsterdam. He also serves as an advisor to DIESEL Industries in Molvena.
