Merkle appoints Margaret Wagner to EMEA executive vice-president growth officer

Wagner will be tasked with heading Merkle’s EMEA new business opportunities, including those in combination with Dentsu Aegis Network. She will drive high standards of best practice within Merkle’s sales and account management teams across the EMEA business, including all current and future acquisitions.

Wagner commented: “True people-based marketing can never be achieved in the context of one channel. There’s no such thing as, say, a simple media brief, because creating a customer-first response means understanding the whole marketing ecosystem. Bringing this approach to clients is incredibly motivating."

Michael Komasinski, president EMEA at Merkle, said: “This is a dynamic and multi-faceted role and I’m excited for Margaret to lead this charge. Her depth of experience across operations, client management and corporate development gives Margaret a unique perspective on client and agency needs, which has enabled her to help our clients achieve success through people-based marketing.”

Wagner joined Merkle in 2015 as senior vice-president, growth director, responsible for driving growth across Merkle’s agency services and marketing solutions divisions and later for developing an integrated new business process to capitalise on the opportunities that joining the Dentsu Aegis Network has brought to the company. Since moving to the UK in 2010, she has also held the role of chief marketing officer of Rapp UK and prior to this was a managing partner at Wunderman for the global Land Rover account and business development.