Deloitte Names New US Chief Marketing Officer

• Deloitte promoted Scott Mager to US CMO of its main consulting company.
• Mager experienced started internet marketing division Deloitte Electronic and helped it make a string of acquisitions.
• His promotion is observed as a different indication of Deloitte’s options to thrust into advertising’s turf.

Consulting giant Deloitte named a new US chief internet marketing officer in a shift insiders see as reflecting the firm’s hunger to thrust more into the

advertising and marketing sector

.

Scott Mager was principal at the consultant’s promoting providers division Deloitte Digital, which he started in 2012 and helped grow with a lot more than 20 acquisitions, together with people of businesses Heat and Madras World. Deloitte Electronic, which claimed $16 billion in international revenue very last year, has been discovering other acquisitions and a offer with advert large Publicis.

In his new role, he’ll oversee all advertising for Deloitte’s main consulting enterprise, which also contains Deloitte Digital. The US is Deloitte’s major area, with 121,000 employees and $22.9 billion in noted revenue for 2021.

Sources when compared Mager’s new function to that of Accenture Interactive CEO David Droga, who like Mager has been making an attempt to broaden the operate the agency does for CMOs. Also like Droga, Mager has an agency qualifications he was at Omnicom agency Agency.com before joining Deloitte in 2001.

Mager succeeds Alicia Hatch, who had been in the job considering the fact that 2015. A individual with immediate understanding stated Hatch not too long ago stepped down for personal causes and that Mager has been performing CMO considering the fact that late 2021.

Mager wrote on LinkedIn that the CMO marketing “was not planned” and highlighted the relationships he has fashioned with top rated advertising execs in his 20-moreover years with Deloitte.

A Deloitte spokeswoman declined to remark over and above the announcement itself. Mager could not be attained for comment.