Joined DeSilva & Phillips in 2010 and leads the firm’s advertising & marketing services practice.

John has considerable experience in the marketing communications industry as a practitioner and advisor.

John launched his career at Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample Advertising in New York.  Following increasingly responsible roles he served as an Executive Vice President, Worldwide Director at Saatchi & Saatchi. In this position he managed a number of the agency’s clients on a global basis. Additional industry experience includes the 4As (American Association of Advertising Agencies) where he led membership, strategic planning and industry-wide digital initiatives.

As a financial advisor John got his first taste of M&A at an Internet driven firm in Cambridge, MA,  Marketplace Technologies, that had several sites including MergerNetwork.  Since joining DeSilva & Phillips, he has facilitated a number of successful transactions:

The sale of Harbor Picture Company to Publicis Groupe, Hatch Design to Advantage Solutions, Wondersauce to Project:Worldwide, ISL (iStrategyLabs) to WPP, Rokkan to Publicis, CatapultWorks to R2i (Orix to Baird), Banyan Branch to Deloitte, digital media solutions to Clairvest, Armstrong White to SGS International  (an Onex portfolio company), Affinitive to Project:Worldwide, Nucleus to Sleeping Dog,Ltd,  WDA to (x + 1), Symbiotix to Havas Health, and a capital raise for Savveo.

B.A., M.S. University of Illinois