David Pugh-Jones
Administrator
Creative Strategist, EMEA, Microsoft Advertising
As Creative Strategist for Microsoft Advertising, David’s role is to be the evangelist for creative offerings and the strategist for creativity online. Alongside this David regularly presents to key clients and agencies on the future of digital advertising.
David successfully worked in this role across the UK market for 2 and half years before taking on the challenge in January 2008 across the EMEA region in understanding the media landscape, the creative agencies ecosystem and our clients advertising demands, ensuring Microsoft is competitive with client concepts, ideas and solutions and continuing to drive and change the creativity online perception.
Since joining Microsoft in October 2005 David has collaborated with numerous clients, advertising and creative agencies in evangelising innovation and creativity online. David’s focus is to act as a creative consultant advising on advertising solutions across the Microsoft digital portfolio including
Prior to joining Microsoft, David was Director of Operations at Handbag.com where he led the successful implementation of an operations, creative and account management team and was integral in the launch of handbag.com’s sister site, getlippy.com in March 2004.
David began his career in Publishing in 1995 and since then he has gained over 9 years experience of digital advertising.
