About us - DEPT®

Our Vision

Build the best digital services company in the world

Fast Facts

€500m+

Revenues in 2022

>4,000

Digital Specialists

>1,100

Clients across 30 offices in 20 countries on 5 continents

>230%

Growth in the last 3 years

200+

Leaders and founders are DEPT® shareholders

Acquisitions since 2015

People at DEPT®

People

DEPT® focuses on building an agency that reimagines an industry rooted in traditions. When others turn right, we strategically turn left. Explore the ambitions behind our leadership.

Our leaders

Dimi Albers

Chief Executive Officer

Missy Foristall

Chief Operations Officer

Frank Schmid

Chief Development Officer

Mickey Kalifa

Chief Financial Officer

We are backed by the Carlyle Group

Since January 2020

What makes us unique

The only global agency that is truly 50% technology and 50% marketing focused.

Digital transformation and products are at the core of your business and to the brand, creative and media that brings you to market. Our focus on technology and marketing allows us to partner with you across the full digital customer journey.

What makes us unique

A culture inspired by a pioneering spirit

We create digital products, services and campaigns that help brands stay ahead of their competition. Our global teams set the standards for innovation and creativity as the most awarded agency at the Webby Awards (the Oscars of the Internet) this year.

We are big enough to cope and small enough to care

We have the scale to work for any brand in the world, alongside an ownership model of a boutique agency. With more than 200 employees who are shareholders, we give our clients a personal, long lasting relationship with one or more owners of our business. This unique model inspired by the intimacy of a boutique agency alongside the scale of a global agency sets us apart from our competitors.

Timeline

1996

Brothers Paul and Bart Manuel found TamTam, a full-service digital agency in the Netherlands

2015

TamTam partners with private equity firm Waterland to realize its international ambitions.

2016

TamTam merges together with other international leading digital agencies to form DEPT®, a global agency that combines creativity, technology and data.

2019

Dimi Albers is appointed CEO and DEPT® partners with The Carlyle Group to continue to accelerate its growth.

DEPT® expands into the Americas.

2021

DEPT® is the first global agency to become a Certified B Corporation

DEPT® launches its Asia Pacific operations, headed up by former Havas Group CEO Vishnu Mohan.