The CMO Podcast

Alice Milligan is the CMO of Morgan Stanley , an over 85-year-old multinational financial services firm, with about $60 billion in annual revenue and a market cap of roughly $140 billion. In 2020, Morgan Stanley acquired E-Trade and Eaton Vance the following year. Alice has an impressive resume that includes 15 years at American Express and five years at Citi. In 2019, she was the Chief Customer O...

Carl Loredo is the Chief Marketing Officer of The Wendy’'s Company , the 50 year-old fast food giant that now has 6,700 restaurants around the world and a marketing reputation as good as their famous burgers. Do we have to mention, "Where's the beef?" Carl has been at Wendy’s for over six years, holding the role of CMO since 2019. He has worked in tech, consumer goods, home decor, and even a stint...

In Part 2 of our two-part series discussing Deloitte's Global Marketing Trends report, Jim delves into the trend behind designing a human-first data experience and supercharging customer service with AI. First, Jim is joined by Michelle McGuire Christian , a principal at Deloitte Digital . She is responsible for the go-to-market strategy, deployment of assets and overall growth of the US business....

This is the first installment of our two-part mini-series exploring Deloitte's Global Marketing Trends Report . This study is massive, and Deloitte surveyed over 1k executives (many of them C-Level), over 10k consumers, and 556 global CMOs. In this episode, Jim delves into "Building the Intelligent Creative Engine." Simply being creative isn’t enough in marketing anymore. Companies need to find an...

Jenna Habayeb is Chief Brand Officer at IPSY / Beauty For All (BFA) Industries , a digitally native beauty tech company with a community of 20 million and growing. BFA is the parent company of the largest beauty subscription brands in the world, including IPSY, BoxyCharm, and Refreshments, as well as the brand incubator Madeby Collective. Jenna has been Chief Brand Officer for over three years, fo...

Devika Mathrani is the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital , a large and leading edge healthcare system with 2,600 beds, 6,500 physicians and 20K employees. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has affiliations with Cornell and Columbia medical schools and deliver 15K babies a year. It is one of the oldest institutions in America that traces its roots to 1771 whe...

Hiroki Asai is the Global Head of Marketing at Airbnb , the 15-year-old industry disruptor that not only changed travel and hospitality forever, but has also had a huge impact on how we live. You will hear more about Airbnb’s just-announced restage in this episode. Airbnb’s business is on fire–100 million bookings in the most recent quarter, an all-time high, with revenue exceeded $1.5 billion in...

Kristin Patrick is the EVP and CMO at the youth-oriented, fashion and accessory company Claire's Stores, Inc. The firm goes to market with two brands, Claire’s and Icing, and has about 2,500 stores globally. Claire’s is also, by far, the industry leader in ear-piercing services. With its retail stores and a burgeoning e-commerce and subscription business, Claire’s revenue is about $1.5 billion; th...

Allison Dew is the CMO and EVP at Dell Technologies. Dell was founded by Michael Dell in 1983 in his dorm room at the University of Texas Austin. It is now Dell Technologies, a $101 billion in sales global enterprise, with growth of 17% in the latest fiscal year.   Allison has been at Dell for 14 years and the CMO for the past four years. In her role, she is directly responsibl...

This week on The CMO Podcast, Jim Stengel is joined by Gary Vaynerchuk , popularly known on the internet as "Gary Vee." Gary is the Chairman of VaynerX, CEO of VaynerMedia and Creator and CEO of the NFT project VeeFriends. In fact, The CMO Podcast's publishing company, Gallery Media Group (among many other companies), is a subsidiary of VaynerX. Gary is also a 5 times NY Times Best Selling author....

Kathryne Reeves is the CMO of Illumina , the high-growth San Diego-based company on the cutting edge of unlocking the power of the genome. Most, if not all of you, have been touched by this company. Their technology has been in 10,000 labs in 115 countries fighting COVID-19 and is foundational for scientists and researchers to develop vaccines and therapies. Its revenue grew 40% in 2021 to roughly...

Phil Cook is the CMO of the WNBA, the 26-year-old professional women’s basketball league. The WNBA is valued at more than a billion dollars with the teams included—42% owned by the WNBA, 42% by the NBA, and the rest by other investors.  Phil just finished his first year with the WNBA. It’s his first stint as Chief Marketing Officer, and the first ever CMO for the league. He previously worked...

Musa Tariq is the CMO of GoFundMe, the large crowdfunding platform which launched in 2010. Since its founding, 200 million people have used the platform to raise $15 billion for causes, events or people they care about. And in 2021, Time named GoFundMe as one of the most "100 Most Influential Companies" in the world.  Musa recently joined GoFundMe in January 2021. Prior to GoFundMe, Musa was...

Wes Nichols is a Partner at March Capital, as well as being an active investor and board advisor to public and private company CEOs. Wes is well-known in the CMO community as the co-founder and CEO of MarketShare, the planning and attribution software used by a majority of the Fortune 500. After growing and merging with Neustar, and later joining the board of Neustar, Wes became an active inv...

David Sandstrom is the CMO of Klarna , the fintech company founded in Sweden in 2005. Klarna offers products and services to consumers and retailers in payments, social shopping, and personal finance. In 17 short years, Klarna has become Europe’s highest valued private fintech company, with an estimated valuation of about $45 billion. Klarna has 100 million active users, 250,000 merchants on its p...

Sara Tervo is the EVP and CMO at Express, a dual gender apparel and accessories brand. Express has been the quintessential shopping mall brand for most of its 42-year history. The brand is putting that image and legacy behind it as Sara and team give it a total makeover. Express has a fast-growing e-commerce business, with a goal to reach $1 billion in sales by 2024.  Sara has worked in the f...

Michelle Freyre is the Global Brand President of Clinique, the iconic skin care and makeup brand. Clinique was launched in 1968 as the world’s first allergy tested, fragrance free, dermatologist-developed beauty brand. It is one of the signature brands of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., the world’s leader in prestige beauty with nearly $17 billion in sales, a market cap of $115 billion, and 60,00...

Google veterans, Lorraine Twohill & Marvin Chow join Jim to discuss the most ubiquitous brand in the world, Google. Lorraine is the Chief Marketing Officer and Marvin is VP of Marketing at Google. Google is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet. Alphabet’s market cap is roughly $2 trillion, making it one of the three most valuable companies in the world. Lorraine—a native of Carlow, Ireland—jo...

Kevin Keith is the Chief Brand Officer for Orangetheory Fitness , the 12-year-old high-growth brand founded in Boca Raton Florida by Ellen Latham, with the brand purpose to help people live longer, more vibrant lives. And by all counts, it's doing just that with its science-based, performance-oriented, one-hour workouts. OTF has 1 million plus members, 1400 studios in 50 states and 26 countries, a...

It's The CMO Podcast's third annual Super Bowl roundtable discussion where we break down the enormous amount of creativity, planning and thought that went into the branding moments consumers viewed during the commercials. Not only is the Super Bowl the biggest sporting event in America, but it has also become one of the most important marketing events of the year for brands big and small. In this...

Russell Barnett is the Managing Director and Chief Marketing Officer of My/Mochi Ice Cream—you know, that delicious little ball of ice cream enrobed with Japanese mochi dough. My/Mochi has been making pastries since 1910 and brought the international sensation called mochi ice cream to the United States in 1993. In 2021, NielsenIQ’s Bases group named My/Mochi a winner in its Top Breakthrough Innov...

Morgan Flatley is the Global Chief Marketing Officer for McDonald’s, which is a brand that needs no introduction. McDonald’s is, of course, a fixture in culture—and has been a marketing trailblazer for decades. McDonald’s may be 67 years old, but it’s not acting that way—the stock price has more than doubled in the past five years, and revenue over the last year grew in the 20% range.  Morgan...

Courtney Harwood  is the Chief Marketing Officer of Denver based  Everside Health , one of the largest–and most innovative–direct primary-care providers in the US, with 350 healthcare centers in 34 states.  Courtney has an eclectic career path and one impressive track record. She has worked on a variety of brands and business models. She's got experience on the ad agency side, with...

Don McGuire is the SVP and CMO for Qualcomm , the world’s largest wireless technology innovator. Chances are if you use a camera on your phone, use wireless headphones, play video games, make a phone call, or drive an electric car, you are likely using something Qualcomm invented. Don has a rich career in tech, working for companies like AT&T, Sprint, Cricket, Intel…and now Qualcomm.&nbsp...

Guy Kawasaki  is the Chief Evangelist at Canva, the easy-to-use graphic design platform that prides itself on giving its users the tools and knowledge to make graphic design as simple as possible. Guy is a multi-hyphenate who is best known for his stints at Apple—being the software evangelist from 1983-1987—and returning to become their Chief Evangelist in 1995-1997. He has also worked, inves...