Michael D. Nelson
President

Any company modeled around progressive thinking requires an influential thought leader. Mike is a 30-year marketing veteran. He has worked on both the agency and client sides doing leading-edge strategic and creative work with a wide range of Fortune 500 companies. He has served as a senior strategist for a large ad agency, as a director of marketing for Caldwell Banker in Chicago, and as a database marketing consultant. In 1994, Mike co-founded Digital Marketing.

Don Plantenberg
General Manager

Don has more than 30 years of experience managing B2B and B2C marketing organizations, with responsibility for achieving long-term goals and objectives. Applying his deep background in client services, project management, finance and organizational leadership, he has built a track record of success. Don adheres to sound business practices and proven methodologies, while building strong client-first teams with focused and efficient operating systems.

Glenn Wagner
Vice President, Business Solutions

Prior to joining Digital Marketing in 1996, Glenn served as executive vice president of operations with Zip Sort (now PSI Group). There, he managed day-to-day operations, including the list maintenance, laser printing and offset printing divisions. He continues to leverage his experience in data and segmentation to help current and prospective clients develop effective customer-centric business solutions.

Michele Leach
Vice President, Strategy and Planning

Michele directs and manages the customer insight, analytics and strategy development functions at BI | Digital Marketing. Having received a B.A. in Marketing Management and Speech Communications as well as an M.B.A. from the University of St. Thomas, Michele applies her wide-ranging experience across the fields of customer relationship management, direct marketing and database marketing to develop comprehensive customer lifecycle strategies across multiple touch points with a consultative and disciplined approach.

David Hinkemeyer
Vice President, Business Solutions

Having joined BI | Digital Marketing in 2008, David brings a deep background that crosses business development with sound customer-centric marketing practices. Previously, David served as senior vice president at TCF Bank, where he led the corporate marketing and product development groups. His past work history also includes managing the Visa USA client relationship at Carlson Marketing Group, as well as management positions with US Bank and GE Capital. David has a B.S. in economics and an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota.

Tim Altier
Director of Business Analytics and Insight

Tim has built a career converting raw data into business intelligence by using statistical analysis and data-mining techniques. At BI | Digital Marketing, he designs and implements marketing strategies that use best-in-class modeling, segmentation and database marketing techniques. Tim has done work in the financial services, retail, telecommunications and pharmaceutical industries, working with companies such as Target Corporation, 3M, American Express Financial Advisors, Chase and Fair Isaac. He has a B.A. in mathematics and an M.S. in statistics.

Kim Perila
Director of Strategy

As head of BI | Digital Marketing's strategy development team, Kim leverages data and market insight to design programs that achieve optimum customer engagement. Her role includes analyzing media channels – from traditional options through emerging interactive platforms – and applying them in the most effective way. Kim draws from over a dozen years of marketing experience, having run traditional and interactive marketing programs for Sprint as well as product management and marketing efforts for U.S. Bank.Kim has a B.A. in Business and French from Concordia College and an M.B.A. from Rockhurst University.

Michelle Van Santen
Creative Director

Midway through engineering school, Michelle discovered her true passion and became a designer. She brings this unusual mix of analytical thinking and conceptual design to her position as creative director. Together, Michelle and her creative team execute an emotionally engaging customer experience across all print and interactive marketing communications. Michelle holds a B.A. in Design and Psychology, and has accumulated 15-plus years of experience on national corporate and consumer accounts.