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Merkle in the US

Our heritage in data, technology, and analytics began in the States, and is carried on today, in the age of CX, by 8,000+ employees.

16 office locations in this market
Austin
800 Brazos Street, Suite 500
Austin, TX 78701
443.542.4001
austin-tx@merkle.com
Boston
85 Devonshire St., Suite 400
Boston, MA 02109
508.573.2200
boston-ma@merkle.com
Charlottesville
701 East Water St.
Charlottesville, VA 22902
434.970.1010
Chicago
515 N State St
Chicago, IL 60654
312.845.2700
chicago-il@merkle.com
Columbia, MD
7001 Columbia Gateway Drive
Columbia, MD 21046
443.542.4000
columbia-md@merkle.com
Denver
1050 17th Street Suite 2100
Denver, CO 80265-2101
720.836.2000
Detroit
3000 Town Center Drive, Suite 2100
Southfield, MI 48075
248.543.6800
Hagerstown
100 Jamison Court
Hagerstown, MD 21740
301.790.3100
Kansas City
6601 College Blvd Sixth Floor
Overland Park, KS 66211
913.498.9988
Little Rock
500 President Clinton Ave Suite 301
Little Rock, AR 72201
Minneapolis
6300 Shingle Creek Parkway 4th Floor
Minneapolis, MN 55430
New York City
150 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017
212.591.9120
Philadelphia
2621 Van Buren Ave., Suite 100
Norristown, PA 19403
610.879.8000
Pittsburgh
680 Andersen Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15220
412.733.7100
Salt Lake City
175 W 200 S, Suite 4100
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
801-303-6300
San Francisco
650 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 918-2990
san-francisco-ca@merkle.com
16 office locations in this market

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    Meet our leaders

    Pete Stein
    Pete Stein
    Global President and President, Merkle Americas

    In his 25-year journey in the marketing industry, Pete Stein has demonstrated a steadfast commitment to helping world-class brands deliver extraordinary customer experiences. As Global President of Merkle and dentsu’s CXM Practice, Pete leads the development and delivery of its full breadth of capabilities that drive customer experience transformation. Pete partners across regions and practice areas to shape Merkle’s brand strategy and go-to-market value proposition.

    Pete is responsible for global annual revenue approaching $2 billion and a workforce spanning 16,000 employees across 30+ countries, encompassing the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. His purview comprises a broad array of CXM competencies, including technology and customer strategy, customer data management, analytics and insights, enterprise AI, commerce and content platforms, digital experience design, CRM and customer service, messaging, and loyalty and promotions.

    Taking a global perspective, Pete’s rich experience is underpinned by an innate understanding of regional market dynamics. His charge within Merkle also includes serving as President of Merkle Americas, a region that contributes to over 70% of the company’s global revenue and employs more than 7,000 people. Prior to this role, he held the position of Global Lead of Experience & Commerce, establishing Merkle’s E&C practice and fronting a global team of CXM experts focused on experience and commerce technologies and services. His responsibilities included recruiting, developing, and inspiring the team to achieve sustainable performance and retain deep client relationships globally by enabling seamless shopping experiences. Under Pete’s leadership, Merkle has been recognized as a leader by Ad Age, Forrester, Gartner, The Drum, IDC, Everest Group, and others, as well as technology partners including Adobe, Google, Salesforce, Pega, and Amazon Web Services. 

    Pete is a visionary steward of Merkle’s growth strategy, including M&A, and has played a pivotal role in evaluating and orchestrating the acquisition of several high-profile customer transformation and technology businesses – and steering their successful integration into the dentsu family of companies.

    Passionate about fostering a unique, people-centric corporate culture, Pete is a devoted advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. He actively supports Merkle and dentsu’s DEI initiatives and personifies their dedication to transparency and accountability in their inclusivity goals. This commitment led Merkle to receive the Digital Revolution Award in EMEA for Diversity and Inclusion Employer of the Year in 2022.

    Prior to joining Merkle in 2020, Pete served as the CEO of Huge, a global experience agency with 1,200 employees in 13 offices across the globe. Huge delivered world-class customer experience work to clients like Google, McDonalds, and P&G. Prior to that role, Pete spent more than 18 years at Razorfish, ultimately rising to global CEO of the organization. While at Razorfish, Pete expanded a base of digital offerings by creating new global capabilities in ecommerce, social, mobile, and programmatic media, delivering strong growth for clients.

    Residing in New Jersey, Pete is actively involved in the advertising and digital community, having served on the Ad Council board and the Snap Client Council.  

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    Tim Perlstein
    Tim Perlstein
    Chief Marketing Officer, Americas

    Tim joined Merkle in March 2021 as SVP, Experience & Commerce Solutions, to help establish Merkle’s global Experience & Commerce practice area –a broad set of capabilities and solutions that are critical to Merkle’s vision for complete, connected customer experience transformation. As CMO, Americas, Tim remains focused on elevating and extending Merkle’s leadership in data-driven, technology-enabled customer experience services for tomorrow’s most engaging, most relevant, most successful brands.

    Prior to Merkle, Tim served as CEO of United in Gaming, Inc., a social platform for amateur esports competition, and previously served as Interim CMO of Skills Matter, the leading global community and continuous learning platform for software engineers. He also created Tanjent Partners in 2015 as a boutique consulting firm focused on growth strategy, marketing, and commerce. Through Tanjent, Tim has worked with a diverse array of firms in media, technology, CPG/ecommerce, and professional services (including multiple agencies at various stages of growth).

    Previously, Tim served as SVP Strategy & Insights and then SVP Managing Director of Fullscreen's brand group. In these roles Tim managed a range of functions including strategy, measurement and insights, operations, strategic planning, and B2B marketing, supporting sustained double-digit growth over a three-year period and a successful exit to AT&T in 2018.

    Prior to Fullscreen, Tim served as Chief Strategy Officer for Razorfish, a global digital agency, where he led the agency's strategic planning, corporate development, and service innovation functions. During his tenure, he transformed the agency's strategy discipline into a market-leading digital consulting practice, establishing Razorfish as "one of the strongest strategy-led marketing service providers in the industry," according to Gartner Research.  

    Tim joined Razorfish from Yahoo!, where he served as Director of Consumer & Customer Innovation. He also led online marketing for the Yahoo! Media Group and held multiple marketing and product management roles at Knight Ridder Digital, the online news division of the US’s second-largest newspaper publisher. Prior to Knight Ridder, Tim served as head writer for Pallotta TeamWorks, supporting massive-scale fundraising efforts which netted over $69 million for AIDS and breast cancer charities in a single year.

    Tim earned his undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from Harvard University, and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, along with certificates in Global and Public Management, with a focus on international development. He lives in Austin, TX (physically), airplane aisle seats (preferably), and the itty-bitty rectangular window of your favorite video conferencing tool.

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    Billy Thomas
    Billy Thomas
    Chief Operating Officer, Merkle Americas

    A 23-year industry veteran, Billy has been with Merkle for more than 12 years, playing several roles within the Marketing Technology and Data Management teams and working across industry sectors. He built his career growing client accounts, expanding margins, building offshore teams, and partnering with client partners to improve performance on challenging accounts. In his most recent role as Delivery Group Leader for Marketing Technology, he led teams that consistently achieved demanding client delivery objectives.

    Prior to Merkle, Billy held various roles over 11 years with Acxiom, primarily in a client delivery capacity, focusing on driving efficiency for the company and its clients across the B2B, Government, and Financial Services sectors.

    As COO, Merkle Americas, Billy dual reports to Pete Stein, President, Merkle Americas and Sarah Strassheim, Global Chief Operating Officer, Merkle. His primary focus areas are establishing partnerships with practice areas to ensure critical KPIs are met; continuing to work on brand integrations and defining a standard approach; and supporting Merkle’s Growth, HR, and Finance teams with efficiencies, consistent communication, and more seamless collaboration. His leadership and experience will be critical as Merkle continues to elevate operational excellence and advance toward a goal of operating as One dentsu.

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    John Stauffer
    John Stauffer
    Chief Strategy Officer, Americas

    John Stauffer is the Chief Strategy Officer in the Americas at Merkle. Bringing more than 15 years of agency experience to the role, John leads an integrated group of cross-channel strategists, transforming our clients’ customer experiences by turning deep channel expertise into strategic competitive advantages.

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    Sheerah Davis
    Sheerah Davis
    Chief People Officer, Americas

    Sheerah is a seasoned human resources strategist with over 25 years of HR experience. She is passionate about employee engagement and leading through change and she believes in leveraging employee and business data to inform HR practices and decisions within the businesses she supports. 

    Prior to joining Merkle, Sheerah has served as the global HR lead for Dentsu Sports International, Inc., a global sports marketing network comprised of MKTG Sports + Entertainment, Halo Sport, and Dentsu Sports. As the CPO, Sheerah led the strategic development of the HR function, and the development and implementation of an integrated HR strategy that has helped build a high-performance, values-based culture through broad business transformation and change.

    Prior to that, Sheerah was the U.S. sports and entertainment HR lead for Dentsu International, Inc. where she led HR for various U.S. brands such as: Mitchell, MKTG, The Story Lab, and GleamFutures which provided the framework for the Dentsu International’s entertainment and sports offering. Sheerah also helped lead HR for the U.S. creative and content service line before her transition to sports and entertainment.

    During Sheerah’s career, she has worked in various industries including marketing, public relations, distribution, and healthcare and has had the opportunity to support leading industry brands such as Disney, Walmart, Goldman Sachs, Nissan, Goodyear, Toyota and others. Sheerah has been recognized by her peers as being a collaborative leader and has gained a reputation for her ability to build relationships, and successfully navigate complex and challenging situations while remaining committed to maintaining a strong, values-driven culture.

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