Roy Armale
Chief Product Officer at DEPT
Roy Armale is Chief Product Officer at DEPT®, the Growth Invention Company, a role he took on in April 2026. He came to DEPT® from WPP, where he was Chief Product & Growth Officer at WPP Open, the network's AI-based operating system for marketing. Before that, he spent his career across Geometry Global, VMLY&R Commerce and the WPP CTO Council, building a reputation over more than 15 years for one specific thing: making technology work in service of people and growth, not the other way around. He holds a postgraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence for Business from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
At DEPT®, Roy leads the Future of Work program and built Deptify, it’s AI orchestration layer for the agentic era. He also originated the Empathy Gradient, a framework for deciding when AI should automate a task and when it should augment the person doing it, built while running a startup automating shopper marketing ads, and now his direct challenge to the routine-vs-cognitive task models still driving most enterprise AI strategy.
