Dstillery, a predictive AI audience targeting company, has appointed Evan Hills as Chief Operating Officer. In the new role, Hills will oversee company-wide operations, focusing on strategic alignment, operational efficiency, and scaling infrastructure to support the company’s growth in AI-powered advertising solutions.
The leadership appointment comes as Dstillery continues expanding its AI-driven advertising platform capabilities and strengthening its operational foundation for long-term market growth.
Evan Hills has been part of Dstillery since 2014 and previously led the company’s commercial operations as Chief Commercial Officer. During his tenure, he helped expand Dstillery’s data business, strengthen strategic partnerships, and align commercial initiatives with market demand.
In his new position as COO, Hills will focus on operational excellence across the organization, ensuring alignment between technology, teams, and business processes as Dstillery continues scaling its AI-powered advertising solutions.
The company stated that Hills’ leadership will play a key role in advancing DS-1, Dstillery’s agentic AI advertising platform designed to streamline audience activation workflows and reduce manual campaign setup processes.
Dstillery’s DS-1 platform is positioned as a core part of the company’s strategy to modernize audience targeting and campaign execution using predictive and agentic AI technologies. According to the company, the platform reduces audience activation workflows from multi-day processes to minutes, helping marketers accelerate campaign deployment and improve targeting precision.
Under Hills’ leadership, Dstillery achieved record revenue and profitability in 2025, reaching Rule of 40 status with a combined growth rate and margin of 46%. The company said the performance reflects continued scalability and demand for AI-powered audience targeting capabilities.
“Evan has been a driving force behind Dstillery’s success for more than a decade,” said Michael Beebe, CEO of Dstillery. “He brings a rare combination of strategic insight, deep knowledge of the business of advertising, and a strong track record of scaling Dstillery’s audience business. As AI drives accelerating change in digital advertising, there is no one better to ensure that Dstillery continues to deliver on innovation and operational excellence in order to provide our clients and partners with targeting solutions that drive real value.”
The leadership transition reflects Dstillery’s broader focus on operational scalability as AI adoption continues reshaping the advertising and marketing technology landscape. The company said Hills’ experience across partnerships, strategy, and operations will help support ongoing expansion across platform partnerships and AI-driven audience solutions.
“I’m excited to step into this new role at such a pivotal moment for Dstillery and the industry,” said Hills. “We have an incredible opportunity to redefine how advertising works through predictive and agentic AI. I’m looking forward to working closely with our teams to amplify our operations, deliver even greater value to our clients, and continue innovating.”
Dstillery stated that the appointment reinforces its commitment to investing in operational infrastructure and leadership to support continued innovation and market leadership in predictive AI advertising technology.
Dstillery is the leading predictive AI audience targeting company, helping marketers reach exactly the right audience for every digital campaign. Powered by multimodal AI and its agentic platform, DS-1, Dstillery enables precise audience targeting at scale, simplifying workflows and driving superior campaign outcomes.
Dstillery’s predictive models learn across data modalities – including web journeys, CTV signals, search signals, purchase intent signals, and more – to build a robust understanding of a brand’s best customers and activate high-performing audiences across programmatic and social channels.
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