Jason Xenopoulos

Jason is an award-winning Chief Creative Officer, filmmaker, and serial entrepreneur whose creative ventures have spanned all areas of media-from film and TV to advertising, music, and the internet.

He is currently the Regional Chief Creative Officer for VML North America and the Global Chief Creative Officer for WPP Ford.

Jason has won Grand Prix and Gold awards at the world's most prestigious advertising festivals, as well as Best Screenplay and Best Feature Film awards at international film festivals. He was ranked among the Top 25 most awarded Chief Creative Officers globally in The Drum's 2023 World Creative Rankings.

Over the past ten years, Jason has helped shape the vision and direction of VML, now the world's largest creative agency.

As the CEO of VMLY&R New York from 2018 to 2021, Jason helped transform the New York office into a flagship location with over 1,000 employees. As co-Chief Creative Officer for VMLY&R North America during the same period, he also drove the agency's creative transformation, leading the region to a Top 3 performance at Cannes Lions 2022.

Among Jason's many entrepreneurial ventures, he co-founded NATIVE in 2010, which rapidly grew to become Africa's leading digital agency before being acquired by WPP. Under Jason's leadership as CEO and Chief Creative Officer, NATIVE (now VML South Africa) won hundreds of awards, including being named Cannes Lions Entertainment Agency of the Year in 2017.

Jason regularly judges award shows including Cannes Lions, Effies, NY Festivals, Loeries, Andy's, and Dubai Lynx (where he served as the president of the Branded Entertainment jury).
Jason is a 5th Dan Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do and the proud father of teenage triplets.