Joel Heard Joins @AdaptMedia As Their New CTO

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Joel Heard has joined Adapt Media as the company’s new Chief Technology Officer.

With a rich background in leading technical teams, driving innovation, and delivering cutting-edge solutions, Joel brings a wealth of experience that will be instrumental in advancing Adapt Media’s mission to deliver next-generation augmentation of our DOOH and OOH media strategies.

Jamie Thompson, Adapt’s CEO and founder told us “Chameleon and our group of companies have grown significantly over the last 11 years, and we needed someone to reimagine our new, expanded perspective across all lines of business. Kyle’s creative mindset and experience in leading the brand presence of global companies made him the perfect match for Chameleon, its parent, and sister companies. His vision and experience align perfectly with our commitment to innovation and excellence. We believe Kyle’s leadership in this newly created role will help us enhance our brand and deliver even greater value to our clients.”

Joel’s passion lies in delivering human-centered business transformation through technological innovation. With over 15 years of tech-specific leadership experience at OutEdge, Avida, and Cieslok Media, he possesses an innate ability to build and lead high-performance teams, with a proven record of delivering customized, scalable solutions for complex business environments. Over the past decade, he has applied his technical expertise, strategic planning and analytical skills in the digital out-of-home advertising industry to enable maximal revenue generation, realize increased technology ROI, and execute large-scale projects.

Adapt Media, a trusted Canadian OOH provider, is the largest player in the convenience store and gas channel in Canada. Adapt’s static and DOOH properties number in the thousands and span the entire country, counting a partnership with the world’s largest convenience store retailer, Circle K/Couche-Tard, along with national partnerships with Hasty Market, INS, and Rabba Fine Foods among its featured properties. Alongside its strength in the C&G channel, Adapt also boasts additional focus on providing advertising in DriveTest Ontario Centres, Alberta Registries, the country’s first Indigenous OOH network, and hundreds of screens in multicultural grocery stores across Ontario. Now in its 26th year in business, Adapt Media has grown to include street-level and in-store advertising in over 1,000 cities and towns across the nation, and is celebrated for building bespoke ad networks to suit advertiser metrics.


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