Tim Lindsay

Tim Lindsay is currently the CEO of D&AD.

D&AD represents global creative, design and advertising communities and celebrates brilliance in commercial creativity. A D&AD Award is recognised globally as the ultimate
creative accolade, entered and attended by the best creative decision makers from around the world. Set to reward, promote and enable creative brilliance in all areas of creative communication, a Yellow – or Black – Pencil remains the pinnacle in many careers.

As a non-profit, all of D&AD's surpluses go straight into programmes that develop the next generation of creative talent while campaigning for the creative industries to help solve the world's toughest social and environmental issues.

After reading English at Cambridge, Tim started his career at ad agency TBWA, before moving to Lowe Howard-Spink and then on to BBH for nine years, running the Levi's account and becoming joint managing director. After a brief spell at Y&R as managing director, he then spent the next ten years working at (successively) Lowe Howard-Spink, Lowe Lintas and Lowe Worldwide, becoming CEO of the London agency in 1996 and President of the worldwide network in 2000. He then became the first as Chairman of Publicis UK and moved on to become Worldwide President of TBWA.

Tim is currently a non-executive director of Media Square PLC, Chairman of the Gate Worldwide, advisor to two start-up businesses and an appointed trustee of D&AD. He is a member of the Thirty Club, the Marketing Group of Great Britain and Blakes 7.

Tim lives in Bath and London with his wife Caroline and his two youngest children.

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