John Rees

Chief Financial Officer, APAC at Wunderman Thompson

Senior Finance executive with 20 years’ international commercial finance experience in Europe, Asia and North America. Motivated by growing and turning around businesses, with an excellent record of making project based professional services organisations profitable. Tenacious, forward-looking, highly capable in balancing objectivity and subjectivity as well as balancing short-term and long-term business goals. Skilled team leader, who achieves complex objectives through simple, adaptable team-led plans. Work hard, play hard, transparency, integrity and empathy are the pillars of my leadership approach. Excellent negotiator accustomed to dealing with challenging external clients (CMO’s, Procurement) as well as internal clients (CEO’s, Creative Directors) and stakeholders. An active listener constantly improving the understanding of nuances in business decision making in different countries and cultures. Takes ownership of situations and inculcates ownership and leadership at all levels of the team, pushing individuals to develop their own ideas and quick to acknowledge/reward a good job well done. A fully qualified accountant with an honours degree in finance with a positive approach to growing personally and professionally.