The Sound Amplifies Capabilities, Adds Agency Vet Matt Palmer as VP/Head of Strategy

Globally-based exploration, strategy, and innovation agency The Sound has reinforced its culture-driven approach by welcoming ad agency mainstay Matt Palmer as VP, Head of Strategy.

Palmer joins The Sound carrying nearly two decades of agency planning and strategy experience, holding senior positions at the likes of FCB, JWT, DDB and Blast Radius. Along with his agency background, Palmer has a degree in anthropology and has spent time with indigenous populations of the desert Southwest and Andes mountains helping survey their unique cultural resources, a practice that informs his new role at The Sound. “I joined The Sound because I wanted to reconnect with the thing that great strategy is rooted in, people” he explains. “We believe that before all else, great strategy must be rooted in the profound, comedic, honest and sometimes frightening insights that we glean from the human condition.”

Palmer’s hiring bolsters the growing, diversifying strategic capabilities of The Sound, which has partnered with major brands including Pandora, Unilever, Pinterest, Beam-Suntory, Kellogg’s as well as agencies such as BBDO, Droga5 and BBH. According to The Sound founder Ian Pierpoint, Palmer’s agency experience provides the company with an established presence with impressive acumen in both digital and traditional fields. “Matt shares our belief that the most impactful and innovative insights of any topic lie at its fringes. His ability to focus on that bleeding edge fits perfectly with our obsession over solving brands’ problems through an intimate understanding of people and culture.”
 

To partner with The Sound, contact:
Liam Boyle, VP, Head of Brand Partnerships
liam@thesoundhq.com
312.265.1775

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About The Sound:

The Sound is a Global Consumer Exploration, Brand Strategy and Product Innovation agency, applying leading-edge research techniques, technologies and marketing models to solve client brand, marketing, communications and product challenges. We are a team of brand experts, strategic researchers, idea generators and cultural anthropologists based in New York, Chicago, London, Mumbai, Toronto and Vancouver. We provide clients with the insight, inspiration and strategy needed to answer the brand challenges most important to their business all over the world.