As chief commercial officer, Jon Slade oversees the Financial Times’ subscriptions business in digital and print, global advertising sales operations, customer services, business development and the FT's digital strategy consultancy, FT Strategies. He is the FT’s first CCO, and was appointed to the FT Group executive board in December 2014.

Slade was previously the FT’s B2C managing director, and before that he was the commercial director for global digital advertising and insight, where he spearheaded the overall strategic direction for the FT’s digital advertising business.

Slade joined the FT in 2002 as technology client manager working with European technology and telecoms clients. He left the FT in 2005 to join News International, and returned to the FT in 2007.