Observed Signal · Feb 19, 2026 · Hiring · Source: ExchangeWire · Impact: 2/5 · Sentiment: Positive
59A Boosts US Growth with New Leadership Team
UK ad tech firm 59A has appointed Jon Nash as US CEO and Danny Moggs as SVP of Sales to accelerate its North American expansion. Although 59A has operated in the US for three years, the hires will provide in-market leadership to deliver its custom algorithmic service to more US clients and will spearhead a formal US launch from a Venice Beach hub in Los Angeles. Moggs brings more than 15 years of ad tech experience, including senior roles at Yahoo and Teads. Founder and CEO Adam Ray and industry contacts at Stagwell and Dentsu praised the move. 59A’s technology creates customised algorithms applied across major buying platforms and assessed via a bespoke learning process.
Senior hires and a dedicated US hub may accelerate a European ad tech vendor’s adoption in the world’s largest ad market and expand availability of custom algorithmic campaign solutions.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- 59A appointed Jon Nash as US CEO.
- Danny Moggs was appointed SVP of Sales at 59A.
- 59A has been operating in the USA for three years and will lead its US launch from a Venice Beach hub in Los Angeles.
- Danny Moggs has more than 15 years’ experience in global ad tech, including senior roles at Yahoo and Teads and launching Teads’ Entertainment category in the US.
- 59A offers customised algorithms for campaigns that are applied across major buying platforms and evaluated through a bespoke learning process.
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59A's Unique Approach: Merging Online and Offline Data
59A, a custom-algorithm media-buying company founded in the UK six years ago, has officially expanded into the United States and appointed Jon Nash as its first US CEO. The firm has served US clients for three years prior to the formal expansion. 59A builds bespoke algorithms for advertisers by combining online signals (platform and first-party data) with a wide range of offline and open-data sources to identify who, where and when target audiences are most likely to convert. Its development process is described in three stages — thinking, doing and learning — where the business intelligence and strategy team curates and rates data points, constructs algorithms, deploys them across platforms, and then refines models based on campaign outcomes. 59A positions this approach as an alternative to relying solely on walled‑garden platform data.
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