{"id":5650,"date":"2017-02-07T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vdigitalservices.com\/?p=5650"},"modified":"2024-01-18T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T23:26:24","slug":"industry-veteran-chris-bird-to-lead-v-digital-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vdigitalservices.com\/industry-veteran-chris-bird-to-lead-v-digital-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Veteran Chris Bird to Lead V Digital Services"},"content":{"rendered":"
V Digital Services today announced that Chris Bird has been hired to lead the digital advertising agency as it continues its rapid expansion. As senior vice president of VDS<\/a>, Bird will oversee the fast-growing company’s moves into new markets, products and services.<\/p>\n Currently with offices in twelve major U.S. cities along with a number of international markets, V Digital Services helps businesses achieve success through a full suite of digital services including local SEO, pay-per-click and programmatic advertising, social media management and web development.<\/p>\n Bird comes to VDS with deep expertise in the nuts and bolts of running a digital agency. He spent the last three years as president of Internet marketing agency Vertical Measures, where he helped to grow the company into a content marketing powerhouse. Prior to that, he was senior vice president of LaneTerralever, an award-winning marketing agency.<\/p>\n As the head of V Digital Services, Bird will report directly to Scott Tobias, chief executive officer of VDS parent company Voice Media Group. It’s a relationship that represents a homecoming for the Phoenix resident. After graduating from the University of Arizona in 1994, Bird actually started his career as an account executive and advertising director at VMG’s Phoenix New Times and Houston Press, so he’s very familiar with the company’s top personnel as well as its overall DNA.<\/p>\n “I’ve known Scott and many on his executive team for more than twenty years,” said Bird, who received his MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in 2007. “It’s been incredibly impressive to see how they’re transforming the company to a ‘digital first’ mindset. I’m fired up to work with them again.”<\/p>\n