Jon Morris


Jon Morris has 10 years of experience in the search marketing field. Prior to creating IMI, Morris managed the Internet Marketing department for Ketchum Directory Advertising an Omnicom Company from January 2002 to June 2003. Some of his group’s accounts included Allstate Insurance, Lowe’s Home Improvement, Kinko’s, Delta and Best Western. He received three industry excellence awards for his work from the Yellow Pages Integrated Media Association.
Previous to working at Ketchum, Morris founded Net Traffic in May 1996. Under Morris’ leadership, Net Traffic served such top clients as FTD.com, SBC, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Red Herring Communications, Neiman Marcus, and Chicago Board Options Exchange. In 1999, Morris was named as one of Chicago’s top 30 entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by the Chicago Sun-Times. Additionally, Net Traffic was recognized by ChannelSeven.com, an industry watch group that tracks Internet marketing trends, as one of the top interactive agencies in the United States in 2000.
Morris served as an elected board member for the Chicago Interactive Marketing Association in 1999 and 2000. He also co-founded LOLA and was on the Chicago organizing committee for First Tuesday in 2000 and 2001.
Morris completed his MBA with high honors from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 2005 and was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award for graduating first in his class. Morris also obtained his bachelor degree in Economics from Kenyon College in 1996.