Max Dietshe is a senior marketing communications strategist who conceives and implements a broad range of simplified communications and business literature projects, primarily in the financial services industry. His clients include Merrill Lynch, T. Rowe Price, Guardian Life Insurance, Wells Fargo and other top-tier firms. He is a frequent writer and speaker on simplified communications and user experience design.

Max joined Addison in 2001 from OppenheimerFunds, where he served as Director of Marketing Communications, overseeing a 40-person department of designers, writers, print buyers and account executives. He previously spent 12 years at Deloitte & Touche. There, he held a variety of writing and marketing communications roles in the firm’s international organization. Max also served as a proposal writer for the Tri-State (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut) region, and built and managed the region’s Proposals and Sales Support Group. In his last position at Deloitte, Max served as Director of Marketing Communications for the Tri-State Region, leading a 30-person team responsible for internal and external communications, proposals and sales support, PR and advertising, and new media.

Max started his career in the non-profit arena, where he managed the publications program for the British-American Chamber of Commerce. In that role, he created and marketed the Directory of U.S. Subsidiaries of British Companies. Max earned a Bachelor of Arts and an Masters of Arts from Columbia University.