NEW YORK — Finn Partners has tapped Jerusalem managing partner Goel Jasper to head the agency’s global digital health innovation group.

In the newly created role, Jasper will oversee Finn’s work with the growing number of digital health clients on the firm’s global roster. Finn’s health practice currently works with more than 60 companies in the sector.

Jasper, a member of Finn’s global health practice leadership team, has been part of the agency from its inception in 2011, and has been running the Jerusalem office since that time.  The office, which has grown to nearly 30 employees, serves as a hub for a range of biopharma, digital health, and medical device companies targeting the US including Theranica, PolyPid, MedAware and RedHill.

Earlier in his career, Jasper held a range of agency and client-side roles at companies including Ruder Finn, Ciena and Hill+Knowlton.