Marketing Vanguard

Nick Drake, EVP of Marketing & Experience of T-Mobile shares his many important career and life lessons from the Rugby field to the inside of agencies to the ocean on a surfboard and into the Outback as a Jackaroo. Nick’s life adventures are mesmerizing and despite his humble and gracious demeanor around his opportunities in life, his spirit of always “going into the unknown and amazing things wil...

Andrea Zahumensky, CMO of KFC U.S. is a “small town girl, raised on small town values” and learned early on that doing things the hard way is often the right way. Throughout her career, which started in IT post graduating with an engineering degree, it has remained a consistent truth in her life and helped her earn her role as CMO of an iconic $4B brand. Tune in to hear her insightful career tips...

Jeanine Liburd, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of BET, and I met last year at Brandweek in Palm Springs. As I sat listening to her talk about one of my favorite topics, Culture, I just knew I had to have her as my guest on CMO Moves. Not only did Jeanine dive deep into Culture, she went deeper into a driving factor of Culture, Passion. Join us in this exploration of how BET is centerin...

How do you market a category that has almost no historical consumer behavior data, no precedent on best practices, an outdated stigmatism of shame and is still illegal in many states as well as Federally? Well, that’s exactly what David Dancer, CMO of MedMen is on a mission to do. MedMen is one of the largest cannabis retailers globally and has already seen exponential growth in the short eight mo...

In today’s very special edition, and final episode of CMO Moves in 2018, I'm bringing back three past guests who I chatted with earlier this year on CMO Moves to find out how things have been going since we last checked in. Also, since all three of these guests sit on our Innovators Council, I thought it'd be a good time to ask them what they think the hottest trends will be in 2019. Hosted on Aca...

Jennifer Sey, Global CMO of Levi Strauss & Co., has had an incredible journey from elite gymnast to Global CMO. She shares the personal hurdles she had to overcome along the way and the incredibly impactful moments in her career, both bright and dark, that helped her to find her voice and become the exceptionally well-rounded leader she is today. This incredible mom of four (18, 15, 4 and 2!) has...

Alison Wagonfeld, CMO of Google Cloud, has had a unique career path from launching QuickenLoans for Intuit to start-ups to managing Harvard Business School’s California Research Center to Venture Capital, all to arrive in her role leading marketing for such a forward-thinking business unit in one of the world’s largest companies. Join us in this fascinating deep dive into technology today, what’s...

Kellyn Smith Kenny leads global marketing for Hilton, which includes 15 different trading brands, nearly 900,000 rooms, almost 400,000 team members and operates in over 100 countries all around the globe. Having come from Uber after building their marketing team from the ground up, Kellyn knows what it takes to revolutionize an industry. Tune in to hear more from Kellyn on how she’s changing the g...

Just last week, Citi announced that Carla Hassan would be joining them as their new global Chief Brand Officer. I had the great honor of sitting down with her the next day to dive deep into her new role, what she’s excited to take on and where she plans to start. We also cover some incredibly personal topics that have shaped her leadership style along the way. Most notably, Carla is a working mom...

Casey Hurbis, CMO of Quicken Loans leads America’s Largest Lender, with 17,000 team members and 1,100 interns (18,000 apply every year) in downtown Detroit, having a significant impact on the revitalization of Detroit and Quicken Loans having been consistently voted one of the best places to work. As Casey shares his offensive and defensive marketing strategy, he also shares what it takes to run a...

Dave Edelman, CMO of Aetna, is one of the world’s leading authorities on not just Digital Transformation, but how to do that with agility and scale. When Dave took on the role of CMO of Aetna, he was not only geared up, he was excited to help lead a massive marketing transformation effort that included 3000+ customer touch points, many of which were B2B. But it wasn’t the transformation in and of...

Lee Applbaum, Global CMO of Patron Tequila and Grey Goose Vodka is in a “pinch me moment” of his career being able to work on not just one iconic brand, but two at the same time. Both brands have incredibly rich heritages with similar DNA and ethos, but face different challenges. Key to success, beyond having a world class marketing team and partners, is the consumer. Join us in this fascinating e...

Fernando Machado, Global CMO of Burger King, is an advertising award machine with more than 120 Lions in Cannes (5 Grand Prix), 16 D&AD Yellow Pencils, 1 Grandy and 2 Grand Effies in North America. Critically important in his success formula is moving at the speed of pop culture and taking risks with great agency partners. Having started as an intern at Unilever as a Chemical Engineer and working...

Dana Anderson, Chief Transformation Officer of MediaLink, is one of my favorite people on the planet. She mesmerizes me with her brilliant, sharp humor which is always delivered with transparent, best intentions. Every time I talk with Dana, I want to write down every word she says as she shares truths and insights that come from her tremendous career experience. As former CMO of Mondelez and now...

Leslie Berland, CMO and Head of People of Twitter, has led with impact her entire career, both for the companies she passionately serves and by taking a stand personally to represent and support communities she believes need a platform. The results from her leadership at American Express and now Twitter clearly speak for themselves and she shook the world stage earlier this year at CES when she ch...

Adam Stotsky, President of E! Entertainment, completely surprised me a couple of weeks ago when he called leaving the red carpet of the Emmy’s just to volunteer to be a mentor in the CMO Moves Mentor program. As the former CMO of NBC Entertainment before becoming President of E!, Adam had a lot of great tips to share on how to prepare yourself for that type of career transition as well as how to e...

Chris Bruzzo, CMO of Electronic Arts (EA), has a passion for “Signature Moves”. His career from healthcare marketing to Amazon to Starbucks to EA is already a list of signature career moves, but within those roles, he challenges himself and his team to be constantly in the hunt for a signature move. Tune in to dive deeper into Chris’s fantastical world of social gaming, seminal Gen Z insights, rea...

Eric Toda, Head of Marketing at Hill City, the newest brand at Gap Inc., just announced the launch of Hill City…today! I had the great honor of being able to sit down with Eric to get the inside scoop on what is Hill City and how this came to life. Over zoom video last Friday, I also got to see the logo, the product, the brand as Eric sat sharing his story from the Gap Inc. Boardroom beaming from...

Vineet Mehra, CMO of Ancestry, leads one of the most purpose-driven brands in the world, which is to genuinely and authentically change the world by helping “people create personal discoveries, and through those personal discoveries, they find connections to others and we all become closer as a result.” With over 11 billion human connections between family trees, Vineet shares how to enroll consum...

Jim Stengel is the President and CEO of The Jim Stengel Group and ultimate teacher of teachers, helping companies find their purpose and developing the leaders of tomorrow. Previously, Jim was the Global Marketing Officer of P&G, where he led a 7000 person marketing team, managed an advertising budget of $8 Billion+ and won the Advertiser of the Year award at Cannes Lions. Today, Jim works more ho...

Stuart Redsun, former CMO of Columbia Sportswear Company, has worked with a lot of cool brands in his career, to include Nike, Gateway, Motorola, Sony, Under Armour and the portfolio of brands at Columbia Sportswear Company (Columbia, Sorel, Mountain Hardwear and prAna). Join us in this fascinating conversation about Brand Truth, what it is, how to find it and how to apply it to bring not only con...

What would happen if you woke up one day and realized you no longer wanted that corner office? Your passion was gone. What would you do? I was lucky enough to catch Robin Domeniconi, CEO and Founder of Threaded Tales and former CMO of (RED), in between her global hops, to grab her inspirational story to share with you. I met Robin a couple of years ago and her story has stayed with me in vibrant c...

David Rubin, Head of Audience and Brand at The New York Times (NYT), spends a lot of time thinking about human truths and emotional connections, not just at the NYT, but throughout his whole career. It's how he led successful brands at Unilever, Pinterest and now the NYT. He also offers some great advice about how to expand your thinking beyond your purview to break through barriers, like how he l...

John Dillon, CMO of Denny's, has been on a mission for 11 years to rejuvenate one the most iconic American brands and shares the brand journey through consumer insights, social media, AI, restaurant design, menu revamping, franchisee enrollment to follow their North Star. Also, don’t miss the incredible story from John on how Denny’s rediscovered its purpose and why they are now building a truck!...

Meg Goldthwaite, CMO of NPR, shares the secrets of great storytelling, especially when telling stories of other storytellers while leveraging leaps in technology! Like the storyteller squared that she is, she is also a mom squared, ensuring her three children thrive in their lives at home and get to experience disparate corners of the world as she serves mankind! Tune to hear more on what Meg (and...