{"id":10399,"date":"2024-08-30T07:45:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T07:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merck.ca\/en\/?page_id=10399"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:54:22","slug":"david-d-jones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.merck.ca\/en\/comp-overview\/our-leadership-team\/david-d-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"David D. 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Jones<\/h1>\n            \n                            <div class=\"mco-b2-hero-block-description\"><p><em>Managing Director<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n            \n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>David Jones is the Managing Director for Merck Canada, a position he holds since September 1<sup>st<\/sup> 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 &amp; analytics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his tenure in the biopharmaceutical industry, David has held multiple U.S. and Global\ncommercial leadership roles across Vaccines, Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Rare Diseases, and\nAnti-Infective therapeutic areas. David is a graduate of the Merck \/ Harvard Business School\nEnterprise Leadership Program, the Executive Leadership Council&#8217;s Strengthening the\nPipeline program, McKinsey\u2019s Black Executive Leadership Program, and was named to the\nPhiladelphia Business Journal&#8217;s 40 under 40 Leaders in 2019.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s Soccer team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David currently lives in Montr\u00e9al with his wife Leah who is an Internal Medicine Physician and his two boys Jackson &amp; Sebastian. Outside of work, David loves spending time with his\nfamily playing golf, exploring new countries and cultures, discovering good wine, and is\ncurrently deep in the Harry Potter world of books and movies with his boys. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Jones is the Managing Director for Merck Canada, a position he holds since September 1st 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 &amp; analytics. 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