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Razorfish Promotes for C-Suite Analytics Role

January 19 2024

Veteran digital marketing firm Razorfish, a subsidiary of Publicis, has promoted Sisi Zhang to serve as its Chief Data and Analytics Officer, and hired Matt Lefever as COO.

Sisi Zhang and Matt Lefever - from press releaseRazorfish employs experts in strategy, creative, data and technology experts who it says 'combine digital innovation, data and cultural insights to help understand what people want at every part of the journey'. The firm says the two appointments 'signal a year focused on innovation, efficiency, and expertise in data and analytics'.

Zhang has helped steer and expand Razorfish's data and analytics capabilities over a dozen years, latterly responsible for a team of more than 150 data professionals.In her new role she will work to develop more robust data-driven offerings, implement standardization processes, upgrade data instrumentation capabilities to simplify client needs, and double down on the team's specialist skills and expertise.

Company President Dani Mariano comments: 'Sisi exemplifies what it means to be a leader and an innovator. Data is king. During a time when brands are looking for new ways to implement and simplify processes or looking for expertise around the impact of AI and automation, we could not think of someone more deserving to shepherd our growing data and analytics capabilities'.

Lefever rejoins the Publicis Group from AI and NLP start-up tellic where he has spent the last five years, and in total brings two decades of experience to the new role. He joined Sapient in 1999, and was part of its growth from 1,500 employees to more than 20,000. CEO Josh Campo comments: 'Matt is coming back with an incredible amount of exposure to company growth cycles that mirror what we envision for Razorfish, and his breadth and depth of experience will be greatly beneficial in the next phase of our organization'.

Web site: www.razorfish.com .

All articles 2006-23 written and edited by Mel Crowther and/or Nick Thomas, 2024- by Nick Thomas, unless otherwise stated.

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