John Young

CEO, 

Young Brands

John helps brands connect and interact with customers in remarkable ways – online, offline, mobile, social, in-store, on-screen, in-game, on-wrist… across every device and touchpoint in-between.

John advises and invests in growing companies needing to make extraordinary leaps forward. Partnering with CEO’s, their boards and teams, John helps the world’s most successful and popular brands become even more successful. Disney, Pepsi, Microsoft, McDonald’s, GE, Budweiser, Hasbro, Sony, IBM, Unilever, J&J, and General Mills to name a few. Equally, John’s worked with upstarts like Zipcar, Priceline, Riot Games, American Idol and DoubleClick, to help them catapult from grassroots into billion dollar brands.

As a director, advisor and friend, John presently serves on the boards of several emerging mediatech and consumer brand companies including Whipper and Earplay.

Previously, John was a founder of Tribal Worldwide (OMC), an award-winning creative network with 46 offices in 28 countries. John was also Chief Creative Officer of Poppe-Tyson (IPG), one of the world’s first digital agencies.