AUSTIN – R/GA, the company that creates transformation at speed, today announced that Paige Maguire has joined the agency as a Creative Director with a focus on experience design. In this new role for R/GA’s Austin office, Paige is charged with working closely with newly-elevated VP, Technology Katrina Bekessy to grow the emerging product and services team and mobile capabilities for the R/GA network. Additionally, Paige will play a critical role in mapping out the relationship between service and product design, particularly where emerging technology enables profound experiences for clients and their consumers.
Paige brings more than sixteen years of expertise in experience strategy, service design, and product design to her new role. She joins R/GA from Fjord, Accenture’s global product and service offering, where she led the Service and Interaction discipline. Prior to this, she spent time at Dell where she managed digital strategy for the company’s first-ever brand campaign, The Power to Do More. Since her move to the agency side in recent years, she’s been able to expand her systematic knowledge having worked across finance, retail, resources, and health and public service territories.
“The R/GA difference is our ability to combine data, creativity and innovation to deliver experiences for our clients’ customers. Along with Katrina’s deep mobile expertise, Paige’s multi-dimensional design thinking will enable R/GA Austin to further build-out our product and services, and ultimately help clients navigate and solve complex business issues,” said SVP, Managing Director, Candice Hahn.
“Our clients expect us to consider end-to-end experiences across both marketing and product, and R/GA is uniquely positioned to provide this holistic capability,” Maguire added. “We’re expanding the influence on both sides to deliver world-class experiences for humans.”
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About R/GA
R/GA is the company that creates transformation at speed. An innovation leader for more than 40 years, R/GA has expanded and evolved to offer business transformation, experience transformation, and marketing transformation through its award-winning consulting, ventures, technology, design, marketing communications, and IP practices. Its work spans web, mobile, and social communications, retail and e-commerce, product innovation, brand development, and innovation consulting. The company has more than 2,000 employees globally with 18 offices across the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia-Pacific. R/GA is part of The Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE:IPG), one of the world’s largest advertising and marketing services organizations. For more information about R/GA, please visit www.rga.com and on Facebook and Twitter.
