Excellence - celebrating 60 years
< BACKJohn Kearon
CEO & Founder (Committee Chair), BrainJuicer, UK
John’s role in conceiving, inventing and leading BrainJuicer made him Ernst & Young’s ‘Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year’ in 2005. Prior to BrainJuicer John founded innovation agency Brand Genetics Ltd which invented new products and services for large blue-chip companies. Before starting his first business, John had been Planning Director of one of Publicis’ UK advertising agencies. John started his career over 20 years ago as a graduate of Unilever's management programme rising to be a senior marketer at Elida Gibbs before moving into advertising.
John’s recipe for entrepreneurial success is creativity, resilience, determination, perseverance, stamina, drive, imagination, resourcefulness, courage, self-belief, commitment, ability to go without sleep and a touch of madness.