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Strategy · Product · Delivery

Senior operators to drive your business forward.

Digitally Savvy helps companies solve strategy, product and delivery problems. We identify the constraint, bring in the right expertise and stay accountable through the work.

Built for

Leadership teams with an important outcome, a capability gap and no appetite for a bloated consulting engagement.

Current engagements

Current work.

Active companies and initiatives where Digitally Savvy is helping clarify, connect or deliver the next move.

Where we fit

Bring us the problem that keeps slipping between strategy and execution.

Decision

You need clarity on the next move.

We turn an ambiguous commercial or product problem into a focused decision, scope and operating plan.

Capability

Your team is missing a senior skill.

We add an experienced operator, builder or specialist without forcing a permanent hire.

Delivery

The outcome needs ownership.

We assemble a small team, run the work and remain accountable through launch and handoff.

Selected experience

Client work. Team experience.

Past Digitally Savvy clients and partners appear first. The next group reflects companies people across our wider team have worked with.

Digitally Savvy

Past clients + partners

Consulting, advisory and contract engagements

Adtech & publishing
Merkle logomediasmart / Affle logoSliide logo
InMobi logoWestern Union logoVICE Media logo
Brands
7-Eleven logo1-800-Flowers logoNew York Mets logo
Wider network

Team experience

Companies our collaborators have worked with

Nike logoSpotify logoCondé Nast logoVerizon logoFlipboard logoPublicis Groupe logoIPG logoCode and Theory logoOracle logoEdelman logoRoku logoT-Mobile / Sprint logo

Ways to engage

Use the amount of team the work actually needs.

01

Senior advisory

A point of view and a practical plan

For leadership teams that need experienced judgment before committing budget, headcount or time.

02

Embedded leadership

A senior operator inside the work

For companies that need temporary ownership across product, growth, partnerships or operations.

03

Focused delivery team

The right specialists around one outcome

For defined launches, builds and transformations that require coordinated execution.

About · the people

Some of the people behind the work.

A founder-led core with senior collaborators who step into the work when their experience fits the problem.

Rick Welch portraitFounder · Digitally Savvy

Rick Welch

Rick founded Digitally Savvy in 2009. His work spans commercial strategy, product, partnerships and revenue across agencies, publishers and emerging technology businesses.

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Walter Fowler portraitVice President · NextTech Communications

Walter Fowler

Technology communications, media relations and reputation strategy.

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Al Dembinskas portraitProduct + operations · Digitally Savvy

Al Dembinskas

Product and operations across digital platforms, technical delivery and customer experience.

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Hermes Frangoudis portraitDirector, Developer Relations + Partner Engineering · Agora

Hermes Frangoudis

Real-time communications, developer platforms and emerging technology.

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Start here

What are you trying to fix or build?

Tell us what is happening. We’ll reply with a point of view, a practical engagement shape and an honest next step.

Based
New York / working anywhere
Built around
Senior operators + scope-fit teams

d|S · Est. 2009

If the work matters and the path is unclear, let’s talk.

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