Dawson goes Deutsch

Deutsch New York has announced the appointment of Andrew Dawson to partner, chief strategy officer. Since February, Dawson has been working with Deutsch as a freelance strategist and consultant on existing clients and new business efforts. Prior to this Dawson was chief strategy officer at Johannes Leonardo on clients including Google, Mondelez’s Trident, adidas Originals, TripAdvisor and PlayStation Vue. He will report directly to CEO Val DiFebo and replaces the CSO position most recently held by Brent Vartan who left the agency in June 2015 to start accelerator agency Bullish.