Publicis Sapient has named Abby Godee as Chief Experience Officer. She will join Global Leadership Team and report to Global Chief Delivery Officer Bob Van Beber.
Godee joins Publicis Sapient with over 25-years of experience, most recently with Deloitte Consulting, where she served as Partner, driving the growth of a human centric-innovation and design strategy practice. Previously, she was Chief Design Officer at Philips Consumer Lifestyle and later led the design of Philips’ healthcare software experiences. She also held leadership roles at Frog Design in the US and Europe and was a partner with Smart Design LLC in New York and San Francisco.
“Abby is an extraordinary design, innovation, and strategic global leader. She combines her deep background in Silicon Valley, consulting, and corporate management with expertise in leveraging technology, design, and research to create powerful products, services, and experiences,” said Publicis Sapient CEO Nigel Vaz.
“With a mission to elevate customer-driven digital business transformation, she will lead how Experience connects across the company’s SPEED capabilities – strategy, product, experience, engineering, and data – to help clients reimagine their businesses for the digital age and solve some of the most important challenges facing customers, citizens and employees in a post-pandemic world.”
“It’s exciting to join a company that for over 30 years has embraced and integrated the disruptive powers of technology and design to help businesses transform digitally,” added Godee.
“Our goal is to meet people where they are in their daily lives to deliver experiences that address their needs, create human connection and solve for the increasing complexity and overabundance of choice present today. I look forward to partnering with our clients to drive their growth and collaborating across Publicis Sapient’s capabilities, further cementing our Experience and design leadership position in our industry.”