David D. Jones

David Jones is the Managing Director for Merck Canada, a position he holds since September 1^st 2024. Before coming to Canada, David was leading the Primary Care, Specialty Medicines, Vaccines, and Rare Disease teams for MSD Japan, which he had joined in 2021, following an assignment in data & analytics.

During his tenure in the biopharmaceutical industry, David has held multiple U.S. and Global commercial leadership roles across Vaccines, Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Rare Diseases, and Anti-Infective therapeutic areas. David is a graduate of the Merck / Harvard Business School Enterprise Leadership Program, the Executive Leadership Council’s Strengthening the Pipeline program, McKinsey’s Black Executive Leadership Program, and was named to the Philadelphia Business Journal’s 40 under 40 Leaders in 2019.

David holds an M.B.A. from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) where he was a 4 year letterman on the Men’s Soccer team.

David currently lives in Montréal with his wife Leah who is an Internal Medicine Physician and his two boys Jackson & Sebastian. Outside of work, David loves spending time with his family playing golf, exploring new countries and cultures, discovering good wine, and is currently deep in the Harry Potter world of books and movies with his boys.