D&AD has announced that Jo Jackson is stepping down from her part-time role as CEO to focus on her other business interests. Jackson’s tenure has included the successful revival post-Covid of the annual D&AD Festival and healthy growth in both our Professional and New Blood Awards programmes. 

D&AD’s Board of Trustees thank Jackson for her service and wish her well for the future, which may well include further collaborations. 

D&AD has a strong and experienced senior leadership team and is delighted to be able to promote chief operating officer, Dara Lynch, to the role of CEO, and awards and operations director, Donal Keenan, to the role of chief operating officer. Tim Lindsay remains as chairman and he and the Board. 

D&AD’s mission will continue to be to celebrate, stimulate and enable excellence in commercial creativity; to develop talent, from emerging through to senior leadership; and to campaign for a fairer, more diverse industry in the belief that this creates better outcomes for all. 

Cover image l-r: Jo Jackson & Dara Lynch