Chairman, Worldwide Executive Committee D’Arcy-MacManus & Masius, Inc. (Deceased) – Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Ernest A. Jones is an advertising executive who moves with easy authority among the world of big business, great music and humanitarian interests. In his over forty years with the same agency, Mr. Jones has held every position from production assistant through the ranks to president and now Chairman of the Worldwide Executive Committee. The agency is a billion dollar corporation with 51 offices in 22 countries, and is one of the ten largest advertising agencies in the world. Not only a leader in advertising, he is a conductor of symphony orchestras, and serves on several art boards. He is General Chairman of the group that brought the 1982 Super Bowl to Michigan. Called “one of the most original thinkers in a create-or-die business,” he has the finest qualities of leadership. “Northwood instills in its graduates, a healthy attitude toward the basic values in American life …I like that!”
