Jon Slade

As Chief Commercial Officer, Jon Slade oversees the Financial Times’ subscriptions business, global advertising sales and operations, print and digital consumer marketing, customer services and business development. He is the FT’s first CCO, and he was appointed to the FT Group executive board in December 2014. Slade was previously the FT’s B2C Managing Director, and before that he was the Commercial Director for Global Digital Advertising and Insight, where he spearheaded the overall strategic direction for the FT’s digital advertising business. Slade has directed the development of new advertising products for FT.com, including the introduction of the Cost Per Hour currency, and the FT's programmatic and third-party platform strategies. Slade has been a member and board representative of the IAB in London, an active participant with the DCN in New York, and a spokesperson for the FT on digital strategy in news publishing.