John Walker

John Walker is Drum’s Head of Commercial partnerships who is responsible for planning and distributing all of the content they make. Partners are increasingly varied form the traditional media owner, through influencers and to cultural institutions and John is charged with delivering effective and efficient partnerships for all Drum’s clients.

Walker began his career at Zenith Media, then OMD UK as a radio buyer, working up to Head of Radio trading and leading the COI radio business for 5 years. He then moved in 2008 to GMG Radio as Director of Creative Solutions for all their agency business and gained a valuable insight into the creation of content and inner workings of a media owner and running a sales team. He has been in his current role 4 years ago and continues to love the juxtaposition of London agency life, alongside living outside London with his wife, 6 horses, 5 dogs and some chickens.
As long as there is time for golf and Chelsea, life is good.