Iain Jacob

Iain currently holds five Non-Executive Chair roles and sits on two advisory boards. His portfolio is focused on media, technology, healthcare, data and content, in markets that are being transformed through digitisation.

Previously to his portfolio career Iain was CEO of Publicis Media EMEA, a key division within the listed Publicis Groupe SA. In this role he ran a €750m revenue business, with a 6,500 headcount, having formed Publicis Media from the merging of Zenith and Starcom operations.

Prior to this Iain was a co-founder of Motive Communications Ltd, a boutique media advisory and buying business, that he and the fellow founders sold to Leo Burnett (BCom3) and he went on to run their then newly formed Starcom UK operations before becoming CEO of Starcom EMEA.

During his time in Starcom and Publicis Media Iain oversaw the acquisition of a number of media and digital businesses.

Iain is an active angel investor, focusing on earlier stage digital companies in data/data science, AR/VR and healthcare analytics.