Full Name
Jim Houghton
Job Title
Partner
Company
Waypoint Partners
Speaker Bio
Jim has more than 30 years of specialist international M&A, operational and financial management experience in the marketing services industry. He has led transformational M&A deals for the leaders and shareholders of class-leading business including We Are Social, Headland, Lexington, Founders Intelligence and Born Social. Working agency side, he was CFO at 160over90 in Philadelphia in 2016 after its sale to Searchlight Capital, and was previously European MD of Omnicom’s network, the Radiate Group. He also led Omnicom’s M&A activity in Europe for 8 years, completing 40 transactions and sitting on many agency Boards.
Jim Houghton