About
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or sink, to the
level of your peers.
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them wisely.
Over 20 years of steady growth, we’ve helped some of Vancouver Island and BC’s most exciting and socially responsible brands in tourism, financial services, retail, health and wellness, social marketing, and more.
Our experience shows. Whatever you throw our way, we know where to start and the questions to ask to move forward quickly and confidently.
We don’t start with the solution, we start by defining the problem: we don’t want you to waste resources or miss opportunities.
We use research, strategy, creativity and leading-edge digital technology to help you reach your market and your goals.
We are leaders in socially responsible business acceleration. We’ll help you do what’s right and meet your objectives – faster.
Our Team
Dan Dagg
President
Dan is a well-recognized and highly regarded leader in BC for creativity, innovation, business partnership development and community building. His experience includes over 25 years working on national, provincial, and regional assignments for hundreds of clients. He is the Past Chair of the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce, was Founding Chair of the highly acclaimed South Island Prosperity Partnership, and Founder of Island Good. Dan knows that change is inevitable, and rather than see it as an obstacle, he sees it as an opportunity to find new ways to solve business problems.
Cameron Reid
Chief Financial Officer
Cameron brings his training, expertise and mind for business to the agency with passion. He’s flexible, understands different business models, and works with the team and clients to find solutions that help meet business goals for all parties involved. He thrives on facts, figures and timely reporting to ensure prudent financial management. However, he’s also creative, collaborative and very good at communicating with staff and clients about all things that have to do with the magic word—money.
Ed Chung
VP, Digital Marketing
Ed has been on the leading edge of digital marketing and analytics for over a decade. His targeted, data-driven approach repeatedly delivers qualified prospects and often above-norm conversion rates. Having worked across categories, Ed knows more than a few tricks, and his skill in finding an audience online and moving them along the customer path to purchase is top-notch. Also, Ed provides reporting with detailed metrics and insights that ensure continuous improvement and an optimized marketing investment.
Debbie Chabot
VP, Message Delivery
Once described as having media in her DNA, Debbie is passionate about all media – traditional, digital and everything in between. Make no mistake: Debbie will find the right target at the right time and place with the right message. She is highly analytical, strategic and a fierce, but fair negotiator. As a result, she has many valuable, long-standing media vendor relationships.
Jacquie Arnatt
VP, Client Engagement
Having worked with a wide range of clients across many categories, Jacquie sees strategy as a means to an end—the end being campaigns that are compelling and help clients to meet their objectives. Jacquie works with purpose and urgency and is highly efficient and effective. She quickly cuts to the core of what needs to be done and galvanizes the team to look at problems as opportunities, and opportunities as a chance to create value in new, unexpected ways.
John Hall
VP, Consumer Engagement
With a rare combination of brand, business and digital skillsets, John has launched and led digital and media innovation practices for several of North America’s leading ad agencies. With over 20 years of experience, including 15 years leading the Destination British Columbia advertising account, John knows his way around strategy and innovation. He brings his unique abilities to H2, optimizing client strategies and the audience user experience.
Joe Hospodarec
Executive Creative Director
Joe has over 20 years of experience working in digital, advertising, design and web with local and international clients–and some very talented people. He has won awards in most competitions including the One Show, Clio Awards and D&AD. He is a collaborative, insight-driven, results-focused marketer who is well versed in modern brand strategy who offers fresh impactful ideas that continually push brands forward across all media outputs.
Bruce Meikle
Co-Creative Director
Bruce’s right-brained side – as a writer and orchestral musician – combines with his left-brained, analytical side – as a librarian and Jeopardy-grade knowledge maven – to bring surprising yet strategic thinking to every creative and marketing challenge. He’s skilled at research, synthesizing mounds of data, asking tough questions and solving problems in new ways. In Bruce’s world, every project is an opportunity to surprise, delight and make us say, “Wow—I wish I’d thought of that.”
Bryce D’Andrea
Senior Art Director
Bryce is a recent transplant from Alberta, who was originally a transplant to Alberta from BC (welcome back).
He’s passionate about the industry and innovates with the times and technologies to create smart work that produces results. From posters and Instagram stories to concepting and crafting full marketing campaigns, he likes being part of it all.
When he isn’t in front of his computer creating, you’ll likely find him wandering around the woods exploring nature, or with his partner and son, wandering around the woods exploring nature.
Bonney King
Production Manager
Bonney is a formidable force at H2 Accelerator when it comes to working with clients to ensure that projects are delivered on time, on budget and at a high-quality. Kind, patient, and insightful, Bonney coordinates and manages many moving project pieces with grace and a steady hand. No detail is too small, and no client input is ever dismissed. She is a life-long advocate for the benefits of yoga, a writer of prose and poetry, loves her guitar and clarinet equally, and is the founder of Girl Warrior Productions to help empower women from all walks of life.
Steve Toms
Web Developer
Steve is the epitome of the ideal web developer: curious, analytical, tenacious, pragmatic, meticulous and tech savvy. We could go on. With a background as a flight dispatcher, he knows how to work quickly in a controlled way—a great fit for keeping up with our growing web traffic. Steve also loves to learn and will find a way to “figure it out” often on his own time, late into the night.
Christian Wiebe
Videographer/Photographer
Christian is our incredibly talented videographer—after all, he’s been carrying a camera around since he was five. Creative, brave, intuitive, patient and able to see a story where others may not, he brings years of experience from his work locally and with Lexicon Films back in Toronto. Particularly skilled at capturing the majesty of the West Coast landscape and its people, Christian has been an invaluable resource to our tourism clients.
Rachel Park
Art Director
A Renaissance woman at heart—Rachel is skilled at graphic design, web development, web project scoping and estimating, interior design, sewing—and much more. She’s curious, analytical, meticulous and one of the rare few who can translate technical jargon into something simple that even technophobes can understand.
Rae Scott
Social Media Coordinator
Rae is a Vancouver Island local with a unique educational background in Psychology, Communications, Digital Marketing, and Diversity Training; she utilizes this to understand audiences and create content that makes an impact. Rae worked as a freelance Digital Marketer and Writer for years, she ran social media accounts, wrote blogs, ran digital ads, transcribed podcasts, and managed websites for clients in various industries across Canada and the US. Now she does this and more for us at H2.
Madison Dagg
Office Administrator
Madi is our admin assistant who works quietly behind the scenes making sure that everything at H2 is running smoothly. She’s the first person you meet at the agency, whether it’s over the phone or in person, and she is unforgettable. Madi not only keeps the files organized but the team as well – managing calendars, scheduling appointments, preparing invoices, planning staff events and so much more. Her super power is her ability to keep so many balls in the air without dropping one. And make it all look so easy.
