Filter, a Merkle Company and top in-house marketing partner to leading global brands, today announced the appointment of Todd Paris as CEO.

This pivotal hire follows a transformational period focused on scaling and re-shaping the 30-year-old company, which led to Filter’s acquisition by Merkle in January 2019.

Paris brings nearly 30 years of industry experience as a service and product focused leader, having worked for global digital brands such as Microsoft, KPMG Consulting, and Sapient. He joined Filter in August 2020 from Deloitte Digital, where he held the role of managing director in charge of the firm’s Advertising Technology and Insights practice. In his role, Paris led innovation at the intersection of cloud and programmatic technology platforms to enable brands to in-house and operationalize their digital media capabilities.

“It’s a perfect time to join Filter and Merkle, as brands focus on driving media effectiveness and efficiency,” said Paris. “Given the accelerating trend of brands taking ownership of their marketing capabilities, one of the key challenges they face is onboarding the right talent into adaptive operating models. The power of Merkle’s people-based customer experience vision, combined with Filter’s cross-media expertise and agile deployment models enable brands to own their own data, drive new insights, and deliver deeply personalized customer experiences.”

Paris will report to Craig Dempster, global CEO of Merkle. “Todd brings a great deal of experience and insight to help advance Filter’s value as an in-housing partner to leading brands,” said Dempster. “He’s also a strong, visionary leader and will play a key role not only in guiding Filter, but in the future of Merkle as a global leader in experience transformation.”

Paris’s appointment comes at a time of major disruption in marketing, one that has prompted CMOs to recalibrate their operations and sourcing strategies. While 78 percent of brands are now in-housing some or all of their programmatic and other marketing capabilities, many of them also rely on agency services to complete the mix. “The most nimble and adaptive brands don’t consider in-housing as an either-or solution,” said Paris. “They use a hybrid model to future-proof their strategy and act with maximum speed, efficiency, and impact. Together, Filter and Merkle are ideally positioned to support those ambitions.”

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Contacts
For Filter: David Hensel
Director of Marketing
[email protected]

For Merkle: Kite Hill PR
Moira Shannon
[email protected]

About Filter, a Merkle Company
Filter is an in-housing partner to leading global brands, providing marketing and experience design solutions that integrate seamlessly with each client’s own people and processes, as well as with their other external and offshore marketing partners. For 30 years, Fortune 1000 companies and emerging brands alike have engaged Filter to build and manage onsite studios and embedded teams that deliver award-winning customer experiences with greater speed, impact, and efficiency. In 2019, Filter was acquired by Merkle, and with that move also joined the Dentsu Aegis Network. Filter is headquartered in Seattle, WA. For more information, visit www.filterdigital.com.