Engine Digital, a Vancouver-based digital consultancy, has employed Steven Chabot as managing director and Brian Wong as technique director, enterprise design. The 2 new hires are based mostly in Toronto.
Chabot brings greater than a decade of expertise in digital transformation and advertising to Engine, the place he’ll deal with rising out the agency’s expertise and consumer roster throughout its Toronto and New York workplaces. He may also oversee the consultancy’s consumer relationships with Autodesk, Pernod Ricard, and the NBA.
Chabot joins Engine from digital consultancy Rangle, the place he spent over 5 years and most lately served as VP and managing director in Toronto. He additionally beforehand served as VP for consumer providers in Tokyo, spearheading the agency’s worldwide enlargement in Asia and managing native gross sales, operations, and contractor recruitment.
Earlier in his profession, Chabot held digital advertising management roles throughout Canada, the US, and China at Sigurd & York, 5Miles, and Simply Cellular.
He has a grasp’s diploma in info research and a bachelor’s diploma from the College of Toronto.
Wong has a decade of expertise in technique and enterprise design. In his new position at Engine, he’ll develop the agency’s method and strategies for enterprise design and assist consumer work throughout its portfolio.
He joins the agency from Fjord, A part of Accenture Interactive, the place he spent over three years as affiliate development technique and enterprise design supervisor. His duties included main and overseeing multidisciplinary groups by way of varied design initiatives, managing consumer relationships and accounts, and creating a world design analysis coaching collection for Accenture.
Earlier than that, Wong spent two years as an innovation strategist and design researcher at Nice-West Life, the place he labored on creating new choices outdoors the insurance coverage agency’s conventional portfolio. Earlier in his profession, Wong held UX designer roles throughout a number of corporations.
He has a level in industrial design from OCAD College.
“With the addition of Steven and Brian, we’re persevering with to construct capabilities that transfer up-stream. This implies we will compete with consulting corporations in a extra adaptive, agile, and lean method, whereas remaining succesful to take product, service, expertise design and construct engagements end-to-end, which most boutique consultancies can’t do,” Stephen Beck, founder and CEO of Engine Digital mentioned.
Beck provides that the Vancouver-based agency has had Toronto group members for a number of years, however is now taking a agency place on recruitment within the metropolis because it pursues extra consumer relationships within the area. He additionally says Engine’s New York workplace is constant to develop its share of general income.
Engine Digital was based in 2002 and offers consulting in model technique, buyer and consumer expertise, product design and engineering, and analytics and optimization, amongst different areas. The agency has greater than 40 workers, in accordance with LinkedIn.
