John Meakin, Global Head of Strategic Services, Grayling

Jon has more than 25 years’ public relations experience, encompassing consumer, corporate, and business-to-business communications, and crisis and issues management. His career to date has seen Jon work for a number of small, independent agencies as well as international networks.

Most recently, Jon ran Grayling’s West Coast team in the United States, where he oversaw strategy and execution for domestic and international clients, from startups to blue chip multinationals. He was concurrently responsible for the agency’s global Strategic Services team, whose remits encompassed research, insights and strategy; measurement and evaluation; creative and content solutions; and Grayling’s proprietary online reputation management tool, GCore.

Jon is a regular judge of PR and creative industry awards, a speaker at international conferences, and has run crisis simulation exercises for clients and conference delegates the world over.

Jon has been a Board member of the International Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC) since 2018, and is the founding Chair of that body’s Agency Group, where his focus is on embedding measurement and evaluation best practice throughout the PR agency world.

British born, Jon is currently resident in San Francisco.