Dennis DeYonker

Dennis has over 20 years of international industry experience in Russia, UK, Germany, France, Singapore and Taiwan. Passionate about the business of culture, he speaks fluent French, Spanish and Russian. Since May 2015 Dennis has held the role of Worldwide Account Director for Nestlé, based out of the Publicis Worldwide headquarters in Paris. He first joined Publicis Worldwide in 2014 to lead Publicis Russia as COO. There he implemented a complete restructure and renewal program to streamline operations and improve creative quality, leading to impressive performance improvements on key clients such as Nestlé, L’Oreal and Sanofi. Dennis began his career in DMB&B Moscow as an Account Manager before moving on to become Regional Account Director (Frankfurt) for Always for CEE and subsequently the whole EMEA region. He joined the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare UK team in 2002 as Marketing Director and in 2003 was appointed to the newly formed GSK Future Group to lead consumer communications for the GSK family oral health portfolio. As Director and Head of Global Brand Communications (UK), he later led the team to consolidate and streamline the GSK advertising, the brand building approach and agency partner relations. He joined the Ogilvy Group in 2012 as APAC Regional Director for the Danone Infant Nutrition team (Singapore) and built a bespoke WPP agency, 171, for mobile phone manufacturer HTC based in Taipei and led the full, integrated global communications program for the HTC brand.