Jon Bond

@JonBond57

Jon is one of the industry's visionaries and thought leaders, having co-founded Kirshenbaum and Bond and creating the modern integrated agency. KB was also arguably the original "Word of mouth” agency, which was its initial positioning at its inception in the late 1980s.

Jon helped build KB into one of the largest independent agency networks in the world, which included the digital agency dotglu, media kitchen, lime promotions (who invented the pop-up Store), and VMM, a digital media buying/technology shop. Billings exceeded $1bb at the time the agency was sold to MDC in 2009, and clients included a who's who of brand leaders in virtually every sector: BMW, Citi, Capital One, Avon, Target, Tommy Hilfiger, Victoria's Secret, Kao brands, Revlon, Estee Lauder, Cisco, Keds, Verizon, Snapple, Wyndham hotels, Delta, Netjets, Meow Mix, Wendy's, IHOP, AT&T, Diageo, LVMH, and Abbott Labs.

Jon also co-founded Eyeballs, one of the first digital media agencies. Eyeballs later became the New York office of Avenue A, which eventually became part of Microsoft.

In 2010, Jon was voted number four in Adweek's Executive of the Decade poll. Jon has a range of interests in new age marketing, which keeps him current on any new developments. He is an investor/advisor to the popular social influencer tool Klout, which just brought on the venerable Kleiner Perkins as a next stage investor. He is also involved with social sentiment analysis firm, Crimson Hexagon, social targeting pioneer Media6degrees, DSP Data Xu, crowd source agency Victors and Spoils, and VC firm Metamorphic.

In a past life, Jon served on the board of the 4A's, the Ad Council, Advertising Week, and as chairman of Worldwide Partners, the largest network of independent agencies in the world with offices In 95 countries. Jon is also a board member of the charity God's Love We Deliver.

Jon has appeared on 20/20, The Today Show, CNN, and has been a regular guest blogger for The HUFFINGTON REPORT. He also co-authored UNDER THE RADAR (John Wiley & Sons), which has now been published in five languages. Jon has been a guest lecturer at The Harvard Business School, Darden, NYU, and his Alma matter, Washington University (St. Louis).

He lives in Greenwich Village with his family, and occasionally gets out to play golf, where he may even disconnect his "devices."