VML West Hires Two Senior-Level Creatives

VML West has hired two senior-level creatives for its Seattle office, which has seen significant growth this year, increasing the headcount by 88% year-to-date. The office now has close to 40 employees. VML West has experienced growth of existing client business and recently won the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association account. In addition to Seattle, VML West offices include San Francisco and White Salmon, Washington.

Alison Tintle has joined VML as a group creative director. Tintle brings more than 20 years of agency experience, with a background including traditional, digital, recruitment and healthcare. She has spent the last decade helping technology-based companies like Microsoft, F5, Intel, Cisco and Adobe humanise their stories and share them through various marketing channels including digital, content, social media, video and direct mail. She will lead the Microsoft creative team tasked with developing and delivering ideas that drive one of the world’s largest technology brands. Tintle honed her technology focus at POP and Rational Interaction, full-service digital marketing agencies in Seattle.

Chris Howe has been hired as group director, experience design. Howe has 15 years of experience designing and directing the creation of interactive experiences for the web, mobile devices and tablets, as well as digital retail kiosk and shopping experiences. Howe has worked with Fortune 100 companies as well as government agencies and non-profits. He capitalises on the opportunities for complex problem-solving that user experience design presents. Howe will manage a team of interaction designers, developing a practice offering a wide range of UX skillsets to meet the growing demand at VML West. Previously, Howe worked with Razorfish in Atlanta, leading a team of user experience designers.