Lisa Townsend Zakroff

Mekanism has hired Lisa Townsend Zakroff as the Managing Director of Mekanism Seattle. She arrives at the agency from Deutsch L.A., where she spent the past three years as senior vice president, account director, on Nintendo and Target. Zakroff originally joined Deutsch as an account supervisor in 2008, working with clients including Volkswagen, DirecTV and Saturn before leaving to join Pitch as account director on Burger King in September of 2010. She rejoined Deutsch at the beginning of 2013 to serve as vice president, experiential account director and was promoted to her most recent role around a year and a half later.