The CMO Podcast

Paul Rivera is the Chief Marketing Officer and Partner at The SpringHill Company , an entertainment development and production company founded by LeBron James and Maverick Carter. The company's mission is to inspire and empower individuals to achieve greatness, from creators to consumers. Paul assumed the role of CMO at SpringHill in 2020, bringing with him a wealth of experience in marketing and...

Samir Singh is the Global Chief Marketing Officer of Unilever Personal Care, a $13 billion dollar business encompassing famous brands such as Dove, Axe, Lifebuoy and Pepsodent. Unilever is one of the largest and most influential multinational consumer goods companies with sales of about $60 billion dollars.  Samir has been at Unilever for 25 years, and was appointed to his new role almost a y...

Andrea Sullivan is the Chief Marketing Officer for VaynerX, a dynamic media and communications company founded by Gary Vaynerchuk. VaynerX is the umbrella brand for nine companies in its portfolio – including Gallery Media Group, which produces The CMO Podcast.  Andrea has worked on the VaynerX team for five years. A respected industry leader, she has served on the board of the Ad Council, th...

Melissa Waters is the Chief Marketing Officer of Upwork, the world’s largest work marketplace. They connect businesses with independent talent – both freelance and full-time – in 180 countries. In 2022, Upwork’s talent community earned $3.8 billion in categories including app design, consulting, accounting, and creative services. But it's not just small businesses that benefit from Upwork; 30% of...

Jocelyn Johnson is the Chief Marketing Officer of the Girl Scouts of the USA. Girl Scouts sell about 200 million boxes of cookies—nearly $800 million worth—during each cookie season. But there's so much more to Girl Scouts than just cookies. Started in 1912 with 18 girls in Savannah, Georgia, Girl Scouts is now the largest leadership organization for girls in the world, with 2.6 million girl and a...

Angela Zepeda is the Chief Marketing Officer of Hyundai Motor North America. Hyundai is a trending brand – it just finished a record 2022 in vehicle sales, following a record 2021. Hyundai Motor Company was founded in Korea in 1967, and has been in North America for 36 years. Angela is a pioneer as the first woman to join Hyundai’s C-suite and has worked as CMO for over three years.  Wit...

Michelle Taite is the Chief Marketing Officer of Intuit’s Mailchimp. Mailchimp is an all-in-one marketing, automation and email platform for growing businesses, with a special focus on small and medium-size businesses. The company was founded in 2001 and has its roots in email marketing, but it has evolved to offer a far wider range of services. Intuit purchased Mailchimp in late 2021 for about $1...

It's the CMO Podcast's fourth annual Super Bowl Roundtable Discussion, where important marketers give their insights into the creation of their Super Bowl ads and the success of marketing for the big game. In short, this is the recap of the biggest marketing day of the year. In this episode  Jim  is joined by special co-host,  Gary Vaynerchuk , Chairman of  VaynerX  &...

Dana Marineau is the Chief Marketing Officer of Rakuten, the leading shopping platform that gives Cash Back and offers deals and rewards in-store and online. Rakuten has 3,500 retailers on the platform, 17 million members, and saw 10% member growth in 2022. Last year Rakuten aired their first-ever Super Bowl ad with Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham; they are back for Super Bowl 2023 with a ne...

Jen Kavanagh is the SVP Marketing and Media for the Philadelphia Eagles, one of the most successful and storied teams in the National Football League. The Eagles got their start way back in 1933, and this past season has been one of the greatest ever as they prepare to face off against the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. Jen has worked as head of marketing for the Eagles for the past 4.5 years. She is r...

Joel Yashinsky is the SVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Applebee’s. Applebee’s opened its first restaurant in 1980, and now has about 2,000 franchised locations globally. This is his sixth year as Applebee’s CMO, following 18 years in various roles at McDonald's. Joel graduated from The Bowling Green University in Ohio, and then worked for Georgia-Pacific and Southwest Airlines before joining McD...

Antonio Lucio is the founder of 5S Diversity, which is focused on building capabilities in marketing transformation and diversity and inclusion. He is also an Executive Fellow at Yale School of Management and was inducted into the American Marketing Association Hall of Fame in May 2022. For the last 40 years, Antonio has worked as a successful global CMO and marketing industry leader. He has colla...

Heather Malenshek is the SVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Land O’Lakes. She is also a returning guest to the podcast; Heather joined us 3 years ago when she was the CMO at Harley Davidson. (You can listen here. ) Land O’Lakes is a 100 year old farmer and retailer-owned cooperative. Its business goes way beyond the famous consumer dairy brand – with business units in animal feed, sustainable farm...

Andy Rebhun is the Chief Marketing Officer of El Pollo Loco. El Pollo Loco traces its origin to Mexico in the 1970s. Famous for their citrus-marinated fire-grilled chicken, El Pollo Loco is now a nearly-billion-dollar brand in the U.S., with about 500 owned and franchised restaurants in six western states. This is Andy’s first CMO role. He is an accomplished global marketing executive who has deli...

Max Steinman is the VP of Marketing & Communications for DoSomething.org, the largest organization devoted to young people and positive social change. It was founded in 1993 by Michael Sanchez and Andrew Shue, with the goal to make volunteering as cool as sports for GenXers and emerging Millennials. Max began his career in advertising, spending over a decade in the ad world, before working at...

Mike Evans founded GrubHub in his spare bedroom and turned it into a multi-billion-dollar online food delivery company. He left the company shortly after it successfully went public in 2014. Currently, he is working on his second startup – Fixer.com. Mike and his team at Fixer are building a "handyperson" business that looks a lot like GrubHub – easy online ordering, good communication, and great...

Lara Richardson is the Chief Marketing Officer of Hallmark Media, which includes the Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, and Hallmark Drama, as well as a streaming service, Hallmark Movies Now. Hallmark Media is a subsidiary of Kansas City-based Hallmark Cards.  Lara has worked as the CMO of Hallmark Media for two years. Previously, she worked for USA Broadcasting, Oxygen Media,...

As creative skills begin to decline in the C-Suite, Deloitte Digital looked to answer a specific question: Can you create breakthrough innovation without creative leaders to guide the way? In this Office Hours episode of The CMO Podcast, Jim is joined by Mark Singer, the CMO of Deloitte Digital, to break down their recent report on Creative Business Transformation. Mark began his career working at...

Andre Gray is the Chief Creative Officer at Annex 88, which is part of the France-based Havas Group – one of the world’s largest communications companies. Annex88 believes that brands thrive only when they bring culturally representative creative ideas to the market. Andre has a resume befitting a top creative person in a top agency. He spent the bulk of his career in Europe, where he was the glob...

Doug Zarkin is the VP and Chief Marketing Officer at Pearle Vision, the $600 million global optical franchise. In 1961, Dr. Stanley Pearle opened his first store in Savannah, Georgia, and in 2004, Luxottica (the giant Italian eye-care conglomerate) acquired Pearle Vision.  Doug has been the CMO of Pearle Vision for 10 years – about three times the average tenure of a CMO. He has returned Pear...

Amy Jaick is the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at Columbia Business School (CBS). The school was established in 1916 and offers MBA, PhD, MS and Exec Ed programs today. Amy works across functions and channels to create integrated programs that bring CBS’s mission, vision and values to life. This is Amy’s first CMO role. She was previously the Vice President of Digital and Social Str...

Melissa Menta has been the SVP Marketing & Communications for Peanuts Worldwide for over 20 years. "Peanuts" – AKA Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy, PigPen, Linus, and the whole gang. Peanuts Worldwide accumulates more than $2 billion in retail sales, with partnerships running from Apple TV to NASA to The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.  Melissa began her career working in marketing and PR at...

In a special episode of The CMO Podcast, we are joined by two former Procter & Gamble leaders, Chip Bergh and Janet Reid. Janet Reid was the first black woman with a PhD that P&G hired. She began her career at P&G in R&D later transferring to marketing. Currently, Janet is the CEO of BRBS World LLC, a private management consulting consortium.  Chip Bergh spent 28 years at P&am...

For Maggie Gross, BrandWorth started out as a question: How does a brand prove their value to a skeptical CEO or CFO who sees branding as a cost-driver? Maggie leads Brand practice at Deloitte. She has led strategy for brands like Dos Equis, Samsung, Keurig/Green Mountain, Lysol, and the Special Olympics. Her work with American Express on Small Business Saturday reframed the idea into the Shop Sma...

Tim Armstrong is the Founder and CEO of Flowcode, the offline-to-online company building direct connections between brands and consumers through next generation QR technology. Tim and his team launched Flowcode in late 2019, and was named to LinkedIn’s Top 50 US Startups in 2021.  Tim was one of the first guests on The CMO Podcast in 2019. His career has spanned a wide range of roles, from st...