Jon Williams

Jon Williams is a 20+ year veteran of the ad industry working at some of the biggest global agencies. He was European CCO of Grey for almost 10 years. He has set up a creative business called The Liberty Guild which has a new way of working that is all based on the idea that creatives should be paid for their ideas, not their time and have really forward-thinking views on talent.During his lengthy career Jon developed the first genuinely interactive TV ad ever broadcast, the first mobile enabled posters and the iPint the world’s first native branded application for the iPhone. His personal work has seen him stack up awards, winning over 300 international awards, including Cannes, D&AD and Effies. While at Grey he deployed a 2000 strong pan-EMEA co-creation platform that allowed the best teams to be put forward for the right jobs regardless of the geographical challenges, out of this initiative the Liberty Guild was born.