Dentsu Aegis Network, headquartered in London, announces the promotion of Neil Gissler to Global COO of Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN).
This new role, created by Tim Andree, Executive Chairman & Ceo of DAN, will see Gissler augment and support the executive team in driving DAN’s transformation agenda. Specifically, he will be responsible for the implementation of DAN’s new market-leading business model – driving business efficiency by strengthening agency brands, delivering integrated solutions to solve clients’ changing challenges and further building operational excellence.
Gissler joined DAN through the Merkle acquisition in 2016 as Coo of Merkle and subsequently as Coo of DAN Americas. The acquisition marked a step change for the Dentsu Group providing immediate scale, talent and new capability in high quality data, analytics and Crm. Since the acquisition in 2016, Merkle’s revenue has almost doubled in size. Following the recent announcement of Dentsu’s accelerated buy-out of 100% of Merkle shares, Neil is a key Executive who was retained as part of the deal completion.
