Our People, Your Profit
True to our mission of running towards big challenges to help our clients capitalize on their greatest opportunities, the team at Deft puts excellence and efficiency at the core of our work.
Deft represents deep industry and functional expertise with a range of perspectives. We drive change through data, technology, design, and leadership experience. We work collaboratively throughout all levels of the client organization to deliver results.
Our expertise is embedded within your organization, leveraging your domain expertise to ensure our projects maximize the potential outcomes for your business.
Andries P de Villiers
Andries is an entrepreneur, executive, and enthusiastic leader at heart.
With over 15 years of revenue leadership for companies large and small, Andries is adept at building and scaling revenue for technology and media companies, and operationalizing the business to achieve billion dollar outcomes.
Andries has held executive roles at adMarketplace, Outbrain, Near, and Updater, and led corp dev rounds resulting in over $500 million in funding. He is also the Co-Founder of Progeny, a premium watch brand dedicated to younger generations, sold both online and in retail stores. When he’s not in the office, he can be found competing in 100 mile bike races (Centuries), or spending time with his children.
Donald Mueller
Donald is a customer-obsessed technologist who has spent years at the intersection of Enterprise SaaS solutions and digital media.
Having held roles across Pre-sales/Sales and Customer Success, he possesses a truly unique blend of skills, experiences, perspective and know-how to drive measurable results for customers.
Donald has spent time at software companies, such as, Operative, Krux (now Salesforce DMP), Oracle BlueKai and Near. When he's not juggling a million work related to-do's, he could be found out on a run or reading Y Combinator's Hacker News.
Michael Myslinski
Mike has over 12 years of experience driving new business for enterprise grade tech platforms, telecom solutions, and performance marketing software companies.
Mike's most recent venture (where he was a founding team member) achieved a successful exit in less than 15 months of its launch. This experience continues to prove extremely valuable in terms of understanding the roadmap to scaling an organization quickly through large partnership development.
When Mike is not traveling across the globe to close business, he can be found rooting for his alma mater, Penn State, or spending time with his family.
Steve R Gibson
Steve is a Digital Marketing Industry Leader, VP, and Agency Partner for Search, Social and Digital Audience. During the last 20 plus years, Steve has managed the investment of over $1 billion on behalf of businesses and organizations across Retail, Auto, Travel, Finance, Entertainment, Education. As an Industry contributor, Steve has been the MC, presented, and paneled for events at Microsoft, Google, Purdue University, Insider Summits, and other industry symposiums.
Steve is a pathfinder in the art of buying intent who has built a reputation for knowledge, trust and the odd ability to create digital marketing hacks to move the needle during the Super Bowl for Mazda, Hyundai, and Kia. He pioneers strategy in Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Paid Social Media, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Social Content Marketing, Analytics, and Building Digital Marketing teams that exceed all industry standards.