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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 the questions to ask to get started, and to go forward.
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.
Patrick Derricourt
VP, Creative Development
Patrick is our vice president of creative development. For good reason. He has the kind of experience that you don’t often find in a mid-size market. He makes amazing ads. And writes stellar scripts. And has done work for Lyons Tetley and General Mills but you’d never hear it from him.
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
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.
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.”
Jeremie White
Co-Creative Director
Jeremie has spent a lot of time between the pipes and wielding a paintbrush, and that’s exactly why you want him on your creative work. As an accomplished artist in oil and acrylic, he brings an extraordinary eye to everything he touches. And as a lifelong hockey goalie, nothing gets past him.
Bonney King
Production Manager
Bonney knows everything it takes to bring a great concept into the real world. And she has the experience, tenacity, and downright friendliness to make sure everything comes out on time, on budget and even better than you’d ever imagined.
Zahra Sheikh
Account Coordinator
One of the most recent additions to our team, Zahra is insanely organized and gets stuff done. She juggles our timelines, briefs, status reports, estimates and work plans effortlessly. If you’re thinking it, she probably has it ready for you in her briefcase. Rest assured, Zahra will make sure your project is delivered on time and on budget. Plus, she’s good at listening and hearing what’s said, and not said—a skill that is always in demand by clients.
Caitlin Best
Digital Content Manager
Caitlin spent years in Calgary creating content and public relations campaigns for major-market clients in the restaurant, hospitality, fashion, travel and entrepreneurship sectors. She brings both a left and a right brain perspective to digital content: creative yet analytic; strategic and yet executional; digitally savvy and yet understands traditional has a place. As a result, it’s no surprise: Caitlin will quickly find the smartest way to solve a problem.
Steve Toms
Senior 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.
Carisse Tam
Graphic Designer
Carisse brings a fresh perspective to every project—visualizing and creating designs that are just right for the target, unique and engaging. She likes to push ideas and look for simple visual interpretations that will differentiate a brand and help to inspire action. Part of her success is that she knows a good design also needs to be able to stretch and work across channels—from traditional to online and mobile.
Madison Dagg
Office Administrator
Maddie is our admin assistant. She is also the middle Dagg child, which seems to have prepared her perfectly to work at H2 Accelerator. She is pretty much unflappable even when folks around her are flapping like crazy. It’s a great quality for agency life. And life in general.
