{"id":20904,"date":"2020-08-10T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directiveconsulting.com\/uk\/?p=20904"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:53:02","slug":"directive-names-rodrigo-stockebrand-vp-client-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directiveconsulting.com\/uk\/blog\/directive-names-rodrigo-stockebrand-vp-client-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Directive Names Rodrigo Stockebrand VP of Client Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>AUSTIN, TEXAS (August 4, 2020)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8211;\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Directive, a next-gen and award-winning performance marketing agency for software brands has hired Rodrigo Stockebrand as the VP of Client Strategy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">In this role, Stockebrand will guide the operational culture, improving the quality and consistency of Directive\u2019s deliverable, and grow revenue through the success of Directive\u2019s clients. He will be a critical part of the agency\u2019s vision to elevate Directive into the upper-echelon of performance marketing agencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">With over 15 years in the industry, Stockebrand has experience as a professional search engine optimization and marketing (SEO\/SEM) and digital analytics practitioner, trainer, and consultant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">His work spans most of the Fortune 500 websites, including previously leading the Global SEO team at Amazon Music, as well as leading SEO projects for companies like Beats by Dre, American Express, Starbucks, Nike, Hugo Boss, Travelocity, Pottery Barn, KPMG, Carnival Cruises, and several others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">CEO and Co-founder, Garrett Mehrguth said, \u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more grateful to bring Rodrigo\u2019s expertise, passion for data, and continuous nature to learn to our team at this time. He will accomplish great things.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Stockebrand said, \u201cAs an industry, we\u2019re at a point where we have more data than ever before, yet many still struggle to leverage that data in strategic ways to facilitate real-time one-to-one communications with an increasingly cross-platform audience. We\u2019re excited to start changing that!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Additionally, Stockebrand is a frequent writer and speaker at industry events, and teaches digital marketing specialization courses at universities in South Florida, Lima, Santiago, Madrid, Toronto, and London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">For more information about this hire or Directive, please reach out to Ashton Newell at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:anewell@directiveconsulting.com\/uk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">anewell@directiveconsulting.com\/uk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About Directive:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Directive is a next-gen performance marketing agency that software brands trust to scale their business. Directive specializes in organic and paid search services, which are driven by a dedicated team of specialists who utilize data to drive strategy for clients\u2019 ROI goals to flourish.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Austin, Texas; Directive has expanded with offices in major markets including Los Angeles; San Francisco; New York City; Orange County, CA; and London. In 2019, Directive ranked in the top 500 in the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in the U.S. Additionally, Directive is certified as a \u201cGreat Place to Work\u201d for 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">In 2019, Directive launched two products, Pulse and Institute. Pulse is the first search marketing database of its kind, while Institute is a step-by-step online digital learning system to drive more sales to any business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">To learn more about how Directive empowers companies to exceed their search marketing and sales goals, visit:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/5770386\/admin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DirectiveAgency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">, or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/directiveconsulting\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Instagram<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, TEXAS (August 4, 2020) &#8211;\u00a0 Directive, a next-gen and award-winning performance marketing agency for software brands has hired Rodrigo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[95,110,155],"class_list":["post-20904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-press","tag-data","tag-growth","tag-saas-marketing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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