Digital agency Isobar promoted Dave Meeker to the role of global director, emerging technology, effective immediately.
In addition to his current U.S. vice president responsibilities, Meeker will now be tasked with expanding Isobar’s global innovation and emerging technology offerings and managing global partnership relationships for emerging technology. Meeker will continue to be based out of the U.S. and will report to global CEO Jean Lin and U.S. CEO Geoff Cubitt.
“We are delighted to expand Dave’s role – with creativity and innovation at heart of our offering, it is critical we take our tested approach to support our clients across the globe,” Lin said in a statement. “We know innovation will work best for our clients when it is the locally relevant but global in scale.”
“Dave’s contagious enthusiasm for innovation and emerging technologies has been a catalyst for the ethos of innovation that is permeates all of our client work and has led Isobar to be named as a top 10 Innovation Agency by Forrester,” added Cubitt. “Expanding his role to include driving Isobar’s global innovation offering will amplify global synergies, enhancing value for our clients around the world.”
Meeker joined Isobar over ten years ago, following over two years as managing partner of Denver-based experience design agency EffectiveUI. Before that he served as an executive advisor for FCB.
“I hope to help our team members across the globe realize their potential as strategic innovators and to help focus our collective brain power to solve the really tough problems that our clients faced in new, exciting and creative ways,” Meeker said in a statement.