Biography
Simon Silvester is currently travelling the world.
He will be back in circulation in late November 2011.
From June 2002 until June 2011, he was EVP Head of Planning, Young and Rubicam and Executive Planning Director, Wunderman Europe Middle East and Africa.He has spoken at marketing conferences in Paris, Tokyo, Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Geneva, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Helsinki, Prague, Delhi, Mexico City, Moscow, Milan, Barcelona, Riga, Dublin, London, New York, Cannes and Seattle.
He was the winner of WPP’s top Atticus Grand Prix in 2002 for ‘You’re Getting Old’, his study on ageing societies in Europe. He also won the 2006 Atticus Grand Prix for ‘My Brain Hurts: how the digital revolution is leaving the consumer behind’ and the 2007 Atticus Grand Prix for ‘How To Think Digital’.
His views have been featured in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Time and The International Herald Tribune, as well as on CNBC and CNN.
Prior to joining Young and Rubicam, Simon was Head of Planning at McCann Erickson Germany, and before that, he was a Global Planning Director at Ammirati Puris Lintas, where he worked on their $1billion Unilever account solving marketing problems in LatAm, Africa, North and South Asia as well as in Europe and the United States.
Simon began his career as a planner at Boase Massimi Pollitt in London, and was also an award-winning copywriter at Delaney Fletcher Delaney.