About Us

Leadership

• Dustin Johnson Global Chief Commercial & Innovation Officer
  As the Global Lead of Weber I/O, Dustin oversees the agency’s analytics, data science, performance media, experiential technology and AI advisory capabilities. With over 20 years of experience across industry, agency and management consulting, Dustin is recognized for driving digital transformation and operational excellence for Fortune 500 clients. He has held senior roles at PwC, Microsoft, Cision and Edelman, consistently delivering innovation and measurable growth.
• Patrick Chaupham Global Lead, I/O Consulting
  Patrick brings to I/O clients 25 years of experience as an innovation strategist, fueled by a client-first mindset, emerging tech expertise and hacker orientation. He accelerates and activates Gen AI for Fortune 500 companies, deploying first-of-their-kind client pilots that drive business transformation. Recognized for his contributions to creativity and technology, Patrick served as a juror for the Cannes Innovation Lions and was named a Top 25 Innovator by The Holmes Report.
• Dotan Limon Chief Product Officer
  Dotan spearheads Weber Shandwick’s tech, data and AI vision-steering the agency toward an agentic AI future that blends autonomous intelligence with human expertise. A marketing technologist and software engineer, he spots emerging client needs early and builds scalable products that empower 4,000 global colleagues. His talent for turning nascent technologies into revenue-generating solutions—while modernizing internal platforms—has positioned TWSC as a leader for AI-driven innovation and impact.
• Marcus Dyer EMEA I/O Lead
  Marcus is a spirited digital innovator who leverages emerging technologies to solve evolving client challenges. Equal parts creative, marketer, technologist and thought leader, he designs transformative business strategies and crafts high-impact digital experiences for clients across industry. A respected entrepreneur, he combines passion with ingenuity to make the impossible, possible.
• Kelly Sullivan Market Visibility Lead, AI + You Lead
  Kelly is a 25-year agency veteran who heads I/O marketing, commercial research and strategic partnerships. Her work is driven by future-focused signal-spotting across academia, tech and industry-insights that shape the firm’s innovation agenda. Most recently, she led a global pilot with MIT Center for Constructive Communication. Kelly also designed AI + You, a learning and activation program to help clients and teams understand the applications and implications of generative AI.
• Courtney Clough Innovation Office Lead
  Courtney is a transformation leader reimagining how a modern PR agency operates—from systems to culture. Fueled by experience leading transformation initiatives for IBM, Haleon, McDonald’s and Pfizer, Courtney partners across teams to re-engineer workflows, implement scalable systems and evolve ways of working—leveraging technology and AI where they add real value. She is shaping a future-ready operating model that empowers talent, accelerates delivery and leverages emerging technologies.
• Michael Connery Global AI Acceleration Lead
  For more than a decade, Michael has guided Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits and education institutions through emerging technology shifts and an ever-evolving media landscape. He leads the firm’s AI Acceleration capability, originating new services, deploying custom AI agents and designing bespoke client programs across communications, marketing and employee engagement. Michael is also a primary project executive for Halo, our next-gen AI workspace.
• Phil Hakim Global Digital Strategy & Experience Lead
  Phil imagines and delivers high-impact campaigns that apply digital technology in novel ways to meet clients’ commercial and organizational objectives. With roots in consulting, startups and digital strategy, Phil brings end-to-end vision and deep healthcare expertise—advising clients like Haleon, Novartis and the UK Government, for whom his team built several of the country’s most-used digital health apps.
• Saakshi Monga Global Performance Marketing & Measurement Lead
  Saakshi is the global executive lead for Performance Marketing, driving vision, commercial strategy and modern solutions that fuel growth and industry leadership. A forward-thinking marketing leader, she anticipates what’s next in an evolving media landscape, delivering smart strategies and breakthrough campaigns powered by meaningful audience insights. Saakshi inspires teams to collaborate, innovate and operate at the highest standards—elevating brands, enhancing reputations and driving meaningful change.
• Ridhi Malhotra Global Intelligence & Analytics Lead
  Ridhi oversees a worldwide team that harnesses data-driven insights to optimize strategies and deliver scalable solutions for dynamic, fast-moving clients. With 16 years of analytics experience and 11 years in communications, she plays a key role in helping clients deeply understand their audiences. A member of 4A’s Measurement Committee, Ridhi has held leadership roles at Zenith, GroupM and American Express, earning multiple awards for her contributions.
• Colleen Learch Global Research Lead
  At the helm of I/O’s research arm, Colleen guides strategic decision-making for diverse clients across corporate, non-profit, global development and public affairs. Backed by more than 20 years of survey experience spanning 30+ countries and myriad audiences, she designs custom studies that align with organizational missions and inform business objectives. Colleen is also a frequent spokesperson about real-world implications of audience research.
• Ethan Bauley Global Lead, Client Services & Corporate Advisory
  Ethan is a trusted advisor to executives seeking effective integration of data and Gen AI into marketing and corporate affairs. His experience spans leadership of both Effie- and Cannes Lion-winning creative campaigns as well as strategy and analytics for special situations like M&A, litigation and crisis response. Since 2021, he has led the firm’s global Narrative Intelligence practice, applying AI to detect and manage manipulated media and narrative attacks.
• James Robertson AI Acceleration Lead, EMEA
  James is a digital comms and AI strategist with two decades of experience across London, New York and EMEA. He helps global brands apply generative AI in ways that elevate creativity and performance. Known for translating emerging tech into real-world tools, James blends strategic insight with hands-on innovation to modernize how teams work, communicate and lead through change.
• Elizabeth Gladwin Intelligence & Analytics Lead, EMEA
  Elizabeth helps global brands harness data, advanced analytics and AI to balance risk with opportunity. She leads a multi-market EMEA team that turns complex audience, stakeholder and channel signals into clear, measurable intelligence. By combining deep-learning models with proprietary tools, her group predicts behavior, guides strategy and delivers tangible value for clients across industry.
• Joseph Sorrentino Intelligence & Analytics Lead, NA
  Joseph leads Intelligence & Analytics in North America, helping brands translate complex data into clear strategy. With a background in media measurement, audience research and AI-powered insights, he builds systems that tie cultural relevance to business results. His work spans global brands across tech, healthcare and CPG, with a focus on turning audience signals into smart decisions, with his latest efforts tuned to advancing how we model impact, predict risk and understand communities.
• Katya Sotiris Head of Data Solutions
  Katya leads a forward-thinking team that turns data into a competitive advantage, building smart, scalable solutions that power every phase of a campaign—from insight-rich strategy to measurement and optimization. Blending advanced analytics with creativity and communications expertise, they transform complex data into clear, actionable guidance that moves the needle. Katya’s work has driven results across industry, including healthcare, tech, financial services, entertainment, CPG, energy, telecom and government.
• Izzy O’Neill Digital Strategy & Experience, NA
  Izzy is a strategic digital leader who delivers high-impact experiences for some of the world’s best-known brands. With a career across the UK, Europe and North America, she’s driven digital transformation for Qatar Airlines, Novartis, Mars, Haleon and the UK Government. Izzy blends commercial acumen with a passion for innovation-leading cross-functional teams to craft data-informed strategies and build user-first, future-ready digital products.
• Barney Evison Digital Strategy & Experience Lead, EMEA
  Barney delivers user-centric, growth-oriented go-to-market strategies and digital products that solve clients’ business problems. He has extensive experience driving award-winning digital transformation and AI implementation programs for a range of clients including HP, Splunk, MongoDB, Haleon, Novartis, Sanofi and Takeda.

Dustin Johnson Global Chief Commercial & Innovation Officer

As the Global Lead of Weber I/O, Dustin oversees the agency’s analytics, data science, performance media, experiential technology and AI advisory capabilities. With over 20 years of experience across industry, agency and management consulting, Dustin is recognized for driving digital transformation and operational excellence for Fortune 500 clients. He has held senior roles at PwC, Microsoft, Cision and Edelman, consistently delivering innovation and measurable growth.

Patrick Chaupham Global Lead, I/O Consulting

Patrick brings to I/O clients 25 years of experience as an innovation strategist, fueled by a client-first mindset, emerging tech expertise and hacker orientation. He accelerates and activates Gen AI for Fortune 500 companies, deploying first-of-their-kind client pilots that drive business transformation. Recognized for his contributions to creativity and technology, Patrick served as a juror for the Cannes Innovation Lions and was named a Top 25 Innovator by The Holmes Report.

Dotan Limon Chief Product Officer

Dotan spearheads Weber Shandwick’s tech, data and AI vision-steering the agency toward an agentic AI future that blends autonomous intelligence with human expertise. A marketing technologist and software engineer, he spots emerging client needs early and builds scalable products that empower 4,000 global colleagues. His talent for turning nascent technologies into revenue-generating solutions—while modernizing internal platforms—has positioned TWSC as a leader for AI-driven innovation and impact.

Marcus Dyer EMEA I/O Lead

Marcus is a spirited digital innovator who leverages emerging technologies to solve evolving client challenges. Equal parts creative, marketer, technologist and thought leader, he designs transformative business strategies and crafts high-impact digital experiences for clients across industry. A respected entrepreneur, he combines passion with ingenuity to make the impossible, possible.

Kelly Sullivan Market Visibility Lead, AI + You Lead

Kelly is a 25-year agency veteran who heads I/O marketing, commercial research and strategic partnerships. Her work is driven by future-focused signal-spotting across academia, tech and industry-insights that shape the firm’s innovation agenda. Most recently, she led a global pilot with MIT Center for Constructive Communication. Kelly also designed AI + You, a learning and activation program to help clients and teams understand the applications and implications of generative AI.

Courtney Clough Innovation Office Lead

Courtney is a transformation leader reimagining how a modern PR agency operates—from systems to culture. Fueled by experience leading transformation initiatives for IBM, Haleon, McDonald’s and Pfizer, Courtney partners across teams to re-engineer workflows, implement scalable systems and evolve ways of working—leveraging technology and AI where they add real value. She is shaping a future-ready operating model that empowers talent, accelerates delivery and leverages emerging technologies.

Michael Connery Global AI Acceleration Lead

For more than a decade, Michael has guided Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits and education institutions through emerging technology shifts and an ever-evolving media landscape. He leads the firm’s AI Acceleration capability, originating new services, deploying custom AI agents and designing bespoke client programs across communications, marketing and employee engagement. Michael is also a primary project executive for Halo, our next-gen AI workspace.

Phil Hakim Global Digital Strategy & Experience Lead

Phil imagines and delivers high-impact campaigns that apply digital technology in novel ways to meet clients’ commercial and organizational objectives. With roots in consulting, startups and digital strategy, Phil brings end-to-end vision and deep healthcare expertise—advising clients like Haleon, Novartis and the UK Government, for whom his team built several of the country’s most-used digital health apps.

Saakshi Monga Global Performance Marketing & Measurement Lead

Saakshi is the global executive lead for Performance Marketing, driving vision, commercial strategy and modern solutions that fuel growth and industry leadership. A forward-thinking marketing leader, she anticipates what’s next in an evolving media landscape, delivering smart strategies and breakthrough campaigns powered by meaningful audience insights. Saakshi inspires teams to collaborate, innovate and operate at the highest standards—elevating brands, enhancing reputations and driving meaningful change.

Ridhi Malhotra Global Intelligence & Analytics Lead

Ridhi oversees a worldwide team that harnesses data-driven insights to optimize strategies and deliver scalable solutions for dynamic, fast-moving clients. With 16 years of analytics experience and 11 years in communications, she plays a key role in helping clients deeply understand their audiences. A member of 4A’s Measurement Committee, Ridhi has held leadership roles at Zenith, GroupM and American Express, earning multiple awards for her contributions.

Colleen Learch Global Research Lead

At the helm of I/O’s research arm, Colleen guides strategic decision-making for diverse clients across corporate, non-profit, global development and public affairs. Backed by more than 20 years of survey experience spanning 30+ countries and myriad audiences, she designs custom studies that align with organizational missions and inform business objectives. Colleen is also a frequent spokesperson about real-world implications of audience research.

Ethan Bauley Senior I/O Client Advisor

Ethan is a trusted advisor to executives seeking effective integration of data and Gen AI into marketing and corporate affairs. His experience spans leadership of both Effie— and Cannes Lion—winning creative campaigns as well as strategy and analytics for special situations like M&A, litigation and crisis response. Since 2021, he has led the firm’s global Narrative Intelligence practice, applying AI to detect and manage manipulated media and narrative attacks.

James Robertson AI Acceleration Lead, EMEA

James is a digital comms and AI strategist with two decades of experience across London, New York and EMEA. He helps global brands apply generative AI in ways that elevate creativity and performance. Known for translating emerging tech into real-world tools, James blends strategic insight with hands-on innovation to modernize how teams work, communicate and lead through change.

Elizabeth Gladwin Intelligence & Analytics Lead, EMEA

Elizabeth helps global brands harness data, advanced analytics and AI to balance risk with opportunity. She leads a multi-market EMEA team that turns complex audience, stakeholder and channel signals into clear, measurable intelligence. By combining deep-learning models with proprietary tools, her group predicts behavior, guides strategy and delivers tangible value for clients across industry.

Joseph Sorrentino Intelligence & Analytics Lead, NA

Joseph leads Intelligence & Analytics in North America, helping brands translate complex data into clear strategy. With a background in media measurement, audience research and AI-powered insights, he builds systems that tie cultural relevance to business results. His work spans global brands across tech, healthcare and CPG, with a focus on turning audience signals into smart decisions, with his latest efforts tuned to advancing how we model impact, predict risk and understand communities.

Katya Sotiris Head of Data Solutions

Katya leads a forward-thinking team that turns data into a competitive advantage, building smart, scalable solutions that power every phase of a campaign—from insight-rich strategy to measurement and optimization. Blending advanced analytics with creativity and communications expertise, they transform complex data into clear, actionable guidance that moves the needle. Katya’s work has driven results across industry, including healthcare, tech, financial services, entertainment, CPG, energy, telecom and government.

Izzy O’Neill Digital Strategy & Experience, NA

Izzy is a strategic digital leader who delivers high-impact experiences for some of the world’s best-known brands. With a career across the UK, Europe and North America, she’s driven digital transformation for Qatar Airlines, Novartis, Mars, Haleon and the UK Government. Izzy blends commercial acumen with a passion for innovation-leading cross-functional teams to craft data-informed strategies and build user-first, future-ready digital products.

Barney Evison Digital Strategy & Experience Lead, EMEA

Barney delivers user-centric, growth-oriented go-to-market strategies and digital products that solve clients’ business problems. He has extensive experience driving award-winning digital transformation and AI implementation programs for a range of clients including HP, Splunk, MongoDB, Haleon, Novartis, Sanofi and Takeda.