GEOBRANDING CENTER - Key Persons


Abdelrahman Alothman - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder

Abdulla Mahmood

Job Titles:
  • Director of Events and Entertainment / Al Ahli Group

Adolfo Alvarez

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and Host of Cuentos Corporativos Podcast

Adrienne Nazon

Job Titles:
  • Consulting Advisor
  • Vice President External Relations and Communications / University of Illinois System

Ajay Kohli

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chair

Akram Husain - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder

Alecia Jugmohan

Job Titles:
  • Consulting Advisor
  • Vice President - Marketing, Corporate and Investment Banking

Alessandra Marinacci

Job Titles:
  • Consulting Advisor
  • Brand Director

Alex Rizo

Job Titles:
  • Vice President / Citizens Inc.

Alexandra Morehouse

Job Titles:
  • Board Advisor
  • Consulting Advisor

Alexandre Aimé

Job Titles:
  • Consulting Advisor
  • Vice President Global Marketing & Communications

Alicia Seah

Job Titles:
  • Director, Marketing Communications

Amit Desai - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Amitava Chattopadhyay

Job Titles:
  • GlaxoSmithKline Chaired Professor of Corporate Innovation / INSEAD

Anahi Traba

Job Titles:
  • Head of Business Transformation

Ananth Srivatsa

Job Titles:
  • Director

Andrew Bimson

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer, North America

Andrew Hanna - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer

Andrew Thomas - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Marketing

Angelique Lynch - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Director

Anil Grover

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing, India

Anja Stolz - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Annabel Rake

Job Titles:
  • Global Olympic Marketing Leader / Deloitte

Annie Headley

Job Titles:
  • VP Corporate Marketing

Anood Haddad

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing MEA

Anselm Mendes

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Sales & Technology / Continental Group

Anuj Jain

Job Titles:
  • Strategy & Business Development Leader, AWS Automotive & Manufacturing / Amazon Web Services

Apurva Chamaria

Job Titles:
  • SVP & Chief of Staff Head of Partnerships Solutions, Startups & Venture Capital
Apurva Chamaria serves as the SVP & Chief of Staff Head of Partnerships Solutions, Startups & Venture Capital at Google India. Previously he was the SVP & Chief of Staff to CEO & MD of Tech Mahindra. As the Chief Revenue Officer at RateGain, the world's leading SaaS player in travel and hospitality he led RateGain from 20 Mn to 63 Mn ARR in 26 months. In my previous stint at HCL, he headed corporate marketing and was responsible for brand marketing, employer brand, employee marketing, thought-leadership, digital marketing, analytics, finance, and Marcom. Prior to moving into sales, Mr. Chamaria was the Global Head of Marketing and Strategy for Enterprise Applications (SAP, Oracle,Microsoft, ECMP, I V & VS, Mainframe and Mid-range, Business Intelligence, IT Consulting) leading a geographically distributed team of marketing managers.

Arnita Wofford

Job Titles:
  • Global Marketing & Technical Director - Beauty & Personal Care

Ash Parikh - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Ashish Babu

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer for Europe & UK / Tata Consultancy Services

Asim Zaheer - CMO

Job Titles:
  • CMO

Audrey Naidoo

Job Titles:
  • Head of Digital Marketing

Aylin Alpay

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing & Sales Officer

Ayman Abouseif

Job Titles:
  • VP Global Portfolio Strategy and Marketing - Worldwide

Aziz Amine

Job Titles:
  • Group VP Marketing & Commercial

Balaji Vaidyanathan

Job Titles:
  • Director and Head of Marketing ( CEEMEA )

Baniel Cheung

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics / the University of Hong Kong

Barbara Glasser

Barbara Glasser was formerly SVP of Marketing and Communications at Chubb. Previous to this role, she was CMO at Santander Bank and SVP Head of Marketing at TD Bank Group.

Barry Bayus

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing & Entrepreneurship / University of North Carolina

Benoit Joly - Chief Commercial Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Commercial Officer

Bernard Pieters

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Director - South Africa Franchise / Coca - Cola

Beverley D'Cruz

Job Titles:
  • General Manager - Middle East and Pakistan / Pizza Hut

Bill Beck - CMO, SVP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • Senior Vice President

Bill Boulding

Job Titles:
  • Dean and J.B. Fuqua Professor / Duke University

Bill Pearce - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Biren Valodia

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Bob Park

Job Titles:
  • Chief Brand Officer

Bob Sherwin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Bobby Kakar

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor

Brad Rosenfeld - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Brendon O'Donovan

Job Titles:
  • VP GTM Strategy and Transformation

Bronwyn Powell

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer / Australian Marketing Institute

Bryan DeRose - SVP

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President
DeRose brings to the CMO Council more than 12 years of direct and channel sales and business development experience in the Technology, Telecom, Professional Services and Manufacturing verticals. As the Vice President of Business Development and Partnerships, DeRose leads global sponsorship and partnership activities including oversight of all academic, media and event partnerships around the world. In his role DeRose works to craft and execute campaigns to drive authority leadership, demand generation and new business opportunities for global enterprises within the CMO Council's channel of insight, access and influence. Prior to joining the CMO Council, DeRose served as the Director of Membership Development of the American Electronics Association (AeA), high-tech's leading trade association, founded by by David Packard and several of HP's suppliers to help lobby for government contracts. DeRose, a graduate of California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispoalso, also spent time in the technology and start up spaces with brands like Netbuy and Questlink.

Buli Ndlovu

Job Titles:
  • Executive Head: Retail and Business Bank Marketing

Busisiwe Mkwanazi - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing

Camille Baumann

Job Titles:
  • Regional Director APAC

Cammie Dunaway

Job Titles:
  • Global Executive, Member Board of Directors Planet Fitness World HQ

Caroline Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board of Trustees / Oasis Charitable Trust

Carolyne Kendi Muriithi

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer / Absa Bank

Celeste Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Director

Chandrashekhar Singh Chauhan

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
Chandrashekhar is a dynamic senior marketing professional with extensive experience in marketing and operations in the telecom and FMCG domains in India and outside. He was formerly the CMO at Bharti Airtel Sri Lanka, leading the marketing function and spearheading the strategic and operational delivery responsibilities for the fastest growing telecom operator in the country. He is charged with managing the product life cycle from developing pre launch strategies, executing market launch and implementing suitable strategic tactics to achieve business targets in terms of contributory margins and volumes. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, he leads a team of 22 product professionals and brand & data analysts. Chandrashekhar played a major role in Airtel becoming the first operator in South Asia to launch 4G-LTE services as well as offer an exhaustive product portfolio of 2g, 3g, 4g and broadband. Prior to Airtel, Mr. Chauhan held leadership roles at Hutchison Fascel (now Vodafone) and Nirma Consumer Care. He earned a B.Sc in Mathematics from Vikram University, Ujjain in 1994 and an MBA from Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Business Management (FMS), Vikram University in 1996.

Charles Schwab

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, Managed Investing, Planning Advice

Charles Wood

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing / University of Tulsa

Cheryl Goh

Job Titles:
  • Group VP of Marketing & Founding CMO

Christine Xu

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Deloitte

Christopher Abraham

Job Titles:
  • CEO & Head - Dubai Campus, Sr. Vice President - Institutional Development / S P Jain School of Global Management

Clarence Chia

Job Titles:
  • Senior VP of Marketing, ECommerce, Direct - to - Consumer

Connie De Lange

Job Titles:
  • Director of Americas Marketing / Amazon Web Services

Corinna Choong

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director Sustainability / Singapore University of Technology & Design

Dan Hofmeister

Job Titles:
  • President, Brand to Consumer

Daniel Chan

Job Titles:
  • Global Chief Digital & Marketing Officer / L'Oreal

Daniel Ng - EVP

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President

Dario Debarbieri

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing - HCL Software / HCL Technologies

Daryl W.T. Lau - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder

David Midgley

Job Titles:
  • Professor

David Stewart - President

Job Titles:
  • President
President's Professor of Marketing and Business Law

Deena Bahri - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Deniz Kalafat Uysal

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing, Turkey & Israel

Dennis Mambure

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing and Corporate Relations

Devan Moodley

Job Titles:
  • Director, Marketing & Sales

Devasish Auddy

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing, MENA

Devendra Shivhare

Job Titles:
  • Director, Marketing Technology, APAC / the Coca - Cola Company

Don O'Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing / University of Melbourne

Donovan Neale-May

Job Titles:
  • EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Doron Youngerwood - CMO

Job Titles:
  • VP Marketing

Dr. Alok Bharadwaj

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director & Former SVP, Corporate Strategy Canon Asia

Dr. Elie Daher - CMO, EVP

Job Titles:
  • CMO
  • EVP

Dr. Sobhi Agha

Job Titles:
  • Group Chief
  • Marketing Officer

Dusty Tonkin

Job Titles:
  • EVP, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer

Dwight Flenniken

Job Titles:
  • EVP, Chief Marketing Officer / Sunwest Bank

Edith Wong - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • Chief Marketing Officer at Invest Hong Kong
Edith Wong is the Chief Marketing Officer at Invest Hong Kong, a government department tasked to attract foreign direct investment into the city. Her division oversees marketing and communications, digital strategy and social media, events, public relations, and market intelligence. Her teams work closely with 32 offices in key markets worldwide to reach out to potential investors and to strengthen and promote Hong Kong's status as Asia's premier business location. Recent campaigns spearheaded by Invest Hong Kong include the StartmeupHK Festival and Hong Kong Fintech Week.

Edward Mazze

Job Titles:
  • Business Administration
  • Distinguished University Professor

Eileen Zicchino

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, Corporate Strategy & Planning / Wells Fargo

Elliot Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Chief Growth Officer

Elzette Hay

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing OTC

Eric B. Luftig

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Product

Eric Brey

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Eunice Yap

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
Eunice is currently holding multiple portfolios: Advisor at *SCAPE SG, former Chief Marketing Officer for The Esplanade Company Limited (performing arts center offering a complete lifestyle experience - dining, shopping and the performing arts); Advisory CMO for Hospitality Group Asia (provider of integrated and value-driven hospitality solutions such as consulting services, brand management, franchising & sales alliance - www.hga.sg); Chief Operating Officer for ST Travel Specialist (travel provider specializing in medical and wellness tourism); and Head of Brand & Communication for The Good Life Cooperative (aims to provide quality healthcare for value and create a healthier community - www.thegoodlifecoop.org). Prior to these roles, she joined Millennium & Copthorne International Limited in 2012 as Senior Vice President - Global Marketing. Her portfolio covered global brand alignment, strategic sales and marketing initiatives, global e-commerce strategy and CRM. Prior to M&C, she was Vice President - Marketing at Wyndham Exchange & Rentals, where she oversaw the entire B2B and B2C marketing in Asia Pacific. During her tenure, she pioneered key marketing initiatives and took on additional responsibilities to oversee affiliate relations with key clients in the region. Eunice has over 20 years of diverse sales and marketing hospitality experience and has won many marketing/brand awards with organizations such as Anantara Vacation Club, OAG Worldwide, Fraser Serviced Residences, Zuji, Raffles International, Angsana Resorts & Spa, Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts, and Thomas Cook - her specialties are in the areas of branding, strategic marketing, customer relationship, integrated marketing communication and product management. Eunice holds an Executive Masters of Business Administration (International Marketing) from Berne University in Switzerland, and a Bachelor of Business Studies (International Marketing) from Monash University, Australia. She is also a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Executive Committee - Marketing Council Asia, and Advisory Board Member - CMO Council.

Fadi Karam

Job Titles:
  • General Manager, Vice President Marketing North America

Famida Singh

Job Titles:
  • Executive
  • Head

Fiona Curtin

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Director / the HEINEKEN Company

Francesco Federico

Job Titles:
  • Global CMO

Francisco Nazar

Job Titles:
  • Omnichannel CX Chapter Lead, Latam / Roche
BIO Francisco Nazar is a global Marketing, Communications and Customer Experience (CX) Business Leader with in-depth experience developed in international markets. He held leadership roles in building high-performance teams, turning insights and data into actionable plans (B2B/B2C) to enable change, build brand preference, seamless CXs and business growth - on local, regional and global stages. Nazar is currently the Omnichannel CX Chapter Lead, Latam at Roche. Prior to this role he worked for Kimberly-Clark Professional, Cox Media Group (AJC/Mundo Hispanico), Relebrand, Zurich Financial Services, Acceleration eMarketing (Wunderman WPP), Despegar and T-Mobile in different Multicultural marketing roles catering the Anglo, Hispanic, African, Arabic and Asian-American segments in APAC, EMEA, North and Latin America. Francisco Nazar worked with various multi-industry brand advertisers including Pfizer, GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim, Colgate, Safeway, Anthem, Aetna, Centene, Nestlé, Unilever or Clorox; and partnered with consulting, research, advertising, media, PR, sports, digital, CX and shopper marketing vendors such as GLG, Burson-Marsteller, BBDO , Grey Global (WPP), Visual Latina, AccentMarketing, Acento Advertising, The Vidal Partnership, IPG Mediabrands, Havas, Zenith Media, IPSOS, The X and Medallia. Nazar has an equivalent of a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with a major in Marketing and studied a Master's Degree in Business and Technology at the Universidad de San Andrés School of Business. He also completed a Professional Digital Marketing Certification and a Consumer Marketing Strategy Program from the Kellogg School of Management and is attending a Master's Degree in Pharmaceutical Marketing at the Universidad de San Pablo CEU from Spain.

Frank Oerlemans

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer APAC

Frankie Lee

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Head of Marketing, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Turkey, and Africa

Gaurav Gupta

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer & Integration Leader

Gavin Cowley

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Consultant

Gayatri Yadav

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer India & SEA / Sequoia Capital

Genefa Murphy - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Geoff Bick

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing / University of Cape Town

George Paige

Job Titles:
  • Global Head of Brand & Social / Etihad Airways

George Rogers Clark

Job Titles:
  • George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing & Director of the Center for Customer Insights / Yale University

GovindaRaj Avasarala

Job Titles:
  • Head Customer Experience Excellence / Vodafone

Gunjan Soni

Job Titles:
  • CEO / ZALORA Group

Gustavo Amaral

Job Titles:
  • CMO / Bombril S.a.

Haitham Hammad

Job Titles:
  • General Manager, Retail Banking Group / Arab International Bank

Haris Munif

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing - Consumer Electronics

Hean Tat Keh

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing

HEC Paris

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing and EDF Chair

Heidi Arkinstall

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing & Communications Officer / Globalization Partners

Helena Mah

Job Titles:
  • Management and Business Consultant

Helena Verellen - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder

Hope Frank - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Housam Raydan

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing & Corporate Communications / Air Arabia Group

Hussam Baday - Chief Commercial Officer, Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Chief Commercial Officer
  • Managing Director

Hussein M. Dajani

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Deloitte

Huynh Phuoc Nghia

Job Titles:
  • Director of CTELG / UEH University

Ian Ryder

Job Titles:
  • Professor for the School of Management / Cranfield University

Jacky Humphries

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Strategy & Implementation Leader

Jacqui Conradie

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Jacqui Greeff

Job Titles:
  • Strategic Marketing Advisory

Jacquie Muhati-Lukiri

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Marketing Director / NCBA Group

Jaime Cardoso - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Director

James Davies - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing

James Gatoff

Job Titles:
  • Group Chief Marketing & Communications Officer / Lombard International Group

James L. Frank

Job Titles:
  • Marketing, Private Enterprise and Management & Director of the China Ind

Jamshed Wadia

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chair of Digital, Asia

Jarryd McDonald

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing / Argo

Jason Saul

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Lecturer of Executive Education / Northwestern University

Jason Shafton

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Engagement

Jeanniey Mullen

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer, ELT Team Member

Jeff Kosiorek

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Marketing and Operations

Jeffrey Boorjian

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer, Group Benefits / MetLife

Jeffrey Hayzlett

Job Titles:
  • Foreman
  • Chairman & Founder of the C - Suite Network

Jennifer Foreman

Job Titles:
  • Foreman

Jessica Hendrix - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Jessica Klodnicki - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer

John Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing / University of New South Whales

John Williams

Job Titles:
  • International Marketing Director & CMO - EMEA, APAC & Latam

Jon Panker

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, APJ

Jonathan Foster-Pedley

Job Titles:
  • Dean and Director / Henley Business School

Josue Hinojosa

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Director / Cisco

Juan Parra

Job Titles:
  • President & General Manager / Coty, Inc.

Judy Gounden

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer / Evago Global Capital

Julie Yufe

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Vodka and Rum / Diageo

June Chan

Job Titles:
  • Regional Marketing Director / at & T

Junseok Hwang

Job Titles:
  • Director & Dean of the Technology Management

Karen Walker

Job Titles:
  • Operating Partner / Goldman Sachs
BIO Karen Walker has over 20 years of experience scaling for growth and global expansion. Previously at Intel, she also served as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Cisco where she led a complete transformation of the marketing function to become a leader in real-time marketing and communications. She also served as a key leader in Cisco's transformation to a hybrid business model selling hardware, services, SaaS, and software. Walker has invested in the newest marketing technologies to build a multi-award-winning tech stack, creating a world-class digital marketing infrastructure. Through her leadership she transformed the marketing function from a cost-center to a revenue generating engine. Walker also led as Cisco's brand value increased 16% in just three years to $34.6B dollars, ranking #15 on Interbrand's Best Global Brands list.

Karim Beg

Job Titles:
  • Principal

Kath Sharfman

Job Titles:
  • CMO and Chief Platform Officer, Sun Exchange
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Kathy Sterio - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Katleho Mahloane

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Executive: Commercial Segment EXCO

Kaushal Doshi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant General Manager - Sales and Marketing

Kaushik Roy

Job Titles:
  • President Brand Strategy & Marketing Communication / Reliance Industries Limited

Kazunari Fukui

Job Titles:
  • Region GM

Kelly Rausch

Job Titles:
  • VP of North America Marketing, Digital and Marketing Operations / FICO

Kelly Starman

Job Titles:
  • Advisor & Interim CMO

Ketan Kulkarni

Job Titles:
  • Chief Growth Officer

Kevin Sugarman - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Communications
  • MEDIA RELATIONS
Kevin Sugarman is a PR pro with a decade of agency experience. In his role as Director of Media Relations, Sugarman focuses on team management, customer program development, digital and social media, and program planning. Sugarman excels in story placement and has a track record of securing coverage in top-tier publications in both the business and trade press. His experience crosses both the consumer and technology markets, and he has deep experience in many industries, including mobile, ad-marketing, telecommunications, enterprise, legal software, BPM, ERP, cloud and SaaS solutions. He has a BS in mass communications with an emphasis in public relations from San Jose State University. As a newly minted and first-time father, Sugarman will gladly share photos of the little girl who he firmly believes is the "cutest in the world."

Kirti Naik

Job Titles:
  • Head of Brand & Creative

Kleber Wedemann

Job Titles:
  • Marketing and Communications Director Latin America & Caribbean

Komal Thadani

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Campaigns Director - EMEA / ServiceNow

KP Unnikrishnan

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer / Palo Alto Networks

Kristie Kiernan Bouryal - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO

Kshitij Jain

Job Titles:
  • Director Marketing, India & APAC / Emeritus

Laura Ashton - Founder, Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Managing Director

Lawrence Yip

Job Titles:
  • Senior VP, Planning & Business Development / Sembcorp Development Limited

Lawrie Golding

Job Titles:
  • Africa Advisory Board Chair / CMO Council
BIO Lawrie is a Change Warrior, focused on strategic Purpose Based interventions in Telecoms, FMCG, Customer Service Delivery and Event Management. He is passionate about, connecting people, changing lives and creating possibilities. He ended a 20 year career in the Vodacom Group at the end of June 2014. For the last six years since 2008, he served in the capacity of executive consultant, involved in the implementation of Strategy, Culture and Transformational Change across the Vodacom Group, as well as facilitation of all internal Management Orientation and Induction programs. In addition he also assisted with Values and Behaviour Alignment and skills based interventions. His position was Head Coach. He joined Vodacom in 1995 as General Manager Marketing, Sales and Product Development, and over a period of twenty years held senior positions in the Vodacom Group including Director Marketing, Managing Director National Chains and Group Executive Marketing in 2004. He has worked extensively in Africa, and was a part of the roll out team that launched Vodacom Congo, Lesotho, Tanzania, Mozambique and Vmobile Nigeria where he was Chief Officer Marketing from 2003 through 2006. He is a Physical Education Teacher and graduated from the University of Pietermaritzburg and Natal Teachers Training College in 1972. He completed the AEP programme through the School of Business Leadership (Unisa), and holds International Marketing Qualifications from Urwick Orr Management School London, and Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Lee-Anne Lawrence

Job Titles:
  • Head of Sales for Africa and Middle East

Leon Zurawicki

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing

Lethepu Matshaba

Job Titles:
  • Vice President: Homecare Africa

Lijun Sun

Job Titles:
  • Global Vice President, CMO, Greater China / VISA

Lisa Pillette

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer / Fossil Group

Lou Paskalis

Job Titles:
  • Chief Strategy Officer / Ad Fontes Media Inc.

Louise Burgers

Job Titles:
  • Editorial Director
Louise has 25 years' experience in B2B publishing as an award-winning editor, columnist and journalist on media brands in Africa; also working with brands/NGOs as a content strategist. She is currently Editorial Director of the CMO Council; a part-time lecturer in Marketing & Advertising Communications at Red & Yellow School of Creative Business in Cape Town, SA; and writes retail brand blog RetailingAfrica.com. She holds a Master of Commerce: Strategy and Organisational Dynamics, from University of KwaZulu Natal, in conjunction with Copenhagen Business School in Denmark and UK Open University.

Luca Destefanis

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing of Kyndryl
  • Head of Marketing, APAC
Luca Destefanis is currently Head of Marketing of Kyndryl, APAC. A senior marketing executive with strong business background, rooted in 25 years of international experience - Asia (9 years), Europe (14y), US (2y), Luca designs organizations, builds teams, develops talents, and simplifies complexity to create purpose-driven brands and high impact marketing campaigns. Known for continuously challenging the status quo, Luca has built the Customer Experience Management offering in Europe; worked in partnership with Dubai institutions to open an innovation center with skills at the intersection of design, consulting and technology; advised more than 20 clients on customer and employee engagement; transformed marketing organizations by adopting new operating models (i.e. co-marketing process outsourcing, Account Based Engagement); enabled a community of 140+ product marketers through workshops and professional development programs; built the IBM Services brand in APAC with the iconic "Breakthrough Partnerships" campaign. At Kyndryl - a 19B$ spinoff from IBM - Luca is now focused on building the brand and nurturing an amazing pool of marketing talents. Luca is passionate about: his work; competing in Ironman races across the world; exploring trends in contemporary art; better understanding humans through behavioral and neurosciences. He lived and worked in New York, Milano and Shanghai before moving to Singapore, where he currently resides with his family.

Lucy Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Chief Growth Officer

Lukasz Kowalczyk - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Director

Magdalena Kotek - CMO

Job Titles:
  • CMO

Maggie T Watkins - CEO, CMO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • CMO
  • Consulting

Maira Gracini

Job Titles:
  • Chief Revenue Officer

Maneesh Sah

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing and Communications Officer

Manish Bhatt

Job Titles:
  • Strategic Marketing Manager

Manish Gupta

Job Titles:
  • Director - Marketing

Marcos Facó - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Marilyn Mersereau

Job Titles:
  • Member Board of Directors / Signifi Solutions Inc.

Marissa Solis

Job Titles:
  • SVP Global Brand and Consumer Marketing

Mark Browne

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
  • Marketing Consultant

Marly Parra

Job Titles:
  • Presidente Do Conselho Consultivo

Marta Federici

Job Titles:
  • Global Head CX & Data Insights

Martyn Etherington - CMO, SVP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • SVP

Mary Rosai

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, Managed Investing, Planning Advice
Mary Rosai leads Institutional Services Marketing at Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. (Schwab). Mary has been with Schwab for 15 years and is responsible for overseeing the marketing strategy, planning, and execution for the division of Schwab that serves independent investment advisors, retirement plan sponsors and participants, and other institutional clients. Specifically, she manages advertising, digital marketing, events marketing, field marketing, acquisition and client communications for Schwab's Institutional Services businesses, as well as manage the service and crisis communications for all of Schwab. Prior to her current role, Mary held several management positions at Schwab, including Retail client acquisition and client experience, International, Corporate Services, Active Trading, and Charles Schwab Bank. Prior to Schwab, Mary was in account management and business development at several marketing and advertising agencies. Mary has a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Michigan and holds Series 7 and 24 licenses.

Matt Taylor

Job Titles:
  • CMO, Enterprise Clients & Innovation

Matthew Walker

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Regional Chief Marketing Officer / AIG Holdings

Mayank Pareek - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Mehdi Moutaoukil

Job Titles:
  • Chief Digital & Marketing Officer

Mehdi Trimech

Job Titles:
  • Senior Marketing Manager, Middle East, Africa, Central and South Asia / Valmont Industries, Inc.

Mehernosh Pithawalla

Job Titles:
  • Vice President - Sales & Marketing

Melissa Cameron

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer / NATIONAL STORAGE AFFILIATES TRUST

Michael Houston

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, Ecolab - Pierson M. Grieve Chair in International Marketing / University of Minnesota Minneapolis

Michelle Urdiales

Job Titles:
  • CMO LAM and Sealand Americas

Mike Tod

Job Titles:
  • Director / Queenstown Airport Corporation Ltd

Miki Tsusaka

Job Titles:
  • President, Microsoft Japan / Microsoft

Milton Longobardi

Job Titles:
  • Latin America Advisory Board Chair / CMO Council

Mirella Amalia Vitale

Job Titles:
  • SVP Marketing & Communications / ROCKWOOL Group

Mohamed AlTajer - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Partner

Mohit Gupta

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing / Metaverse / Mission Officer
  • Director, Head of Marketing - APAC & Head of Social Media - Global, Corporate Bank / Deutsche Bank

Moin AKM Moinul Islam

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director ( Culinary Business ) PRAN - RFL Group

Mune Gichatha - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing

Munyaradzi Nyikavaranda

Job Titles:
  • Group Executive
  • Head
Group Executive Head : Digital Analytics & Marketing Technology

Mustafa Moussa

Job Titles:
  • Senior Executive Consultant / PepsiCo

Nader Tavassoli

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing / London Business School

Narayan Parasuraman

Job Titles:
  • Head of Transformation, Strategy and PMO / Nike Inc

Natalie Fleisher

Natalie Fleisher leads branding and creative development for CMO Council. She manages the digital media and interactive services team and plays an integral role in maintaining and evolving the CMO Council brand identify across all campaigns, properties, assets and marketing communications activities (web, interactive, print, email, social media). Russian-born, Fleisher has helped assemble and orchestrate a world-class creative team at CMO Council, focused on producing a wide range of websites, digital brand assets and campaigns. Before launching her career as a graphic designer, she worked as a professional architect and researcher for architectural companies in Russia, Israel and the United States. An avid skier, Fleisher earned her PhD in architecture at the Russian Research and Design Institute of Dwelling. She currently lives in the Bay Area, making as many trips to the slopes of Lake Tahoe as her schedule allows.

Natasha Maharaj

Job Titles:
  • Global Marketing Director / the HEINEKEN Company

Nav Thethi

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Web and Digital Experience

Neil Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing / Wisconsin School of Business

Niamh Byrne - CMO

Job Titles:
  • CMO

Nicholas Couvaras - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Nicolas Marchon

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Director for Latin America

Nicole Worthington

Job Titles:
  • Global Head of Content Marketing, Head of Marketing EMEA and APAC / HCL Technologies
  • Marketing and Communications Leader
BIO Nicole Worthington is an experienced marketing and communications leader, focused on driving business results through integrated marketing-brand management, communications, public relations, content and digital marketing, performance marketing, and sales enablement. She is a leader focused on driving tangible business outcomes and transformational change, with strong business acumen having run a company for 20 years. She has a track record of building strong leadership relationships with senior colleagues and cross-departmental team leaders. History of exceeding business performance and objectives.

Nicolette Singh - CMO

Job Titles:
  • CMO

Nitin Mathur

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing and Digital Transformation Officer

Noam Harel

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer and General Manger North America

Nondumiso Mabece

Job Titles:
  • Head of Consumer Marketing and PR

Noor Azizi Ismail

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Dean

Noreen Allen - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Oghenerukevwe Toka

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Manager, West Africa - Leading Brand, Product & Client Marketing / Visa

Olga Pancenko

Job Titles:
  • CEO EME & North America

Oliver Huschke

Job Titles:
  • VP and Global Head Marketing and External Communications, SAP Services and Support

Ope LAWAL

Job Titles:
  • Group Executive Head, Brand & Product Marketing

Ophir Shalitin

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Marketing and Strategy

Owen Takadiyi - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Pascal Brassier

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor - Negotiation, Sales Management, International Business

Patrick Adams - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Patrick Smith - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Paul Kerr

Job Titles:
  • Regional Category Director Chocolate for Middle East Africa / Kraft Foods

Paul Suchman - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Peeyush Dubey

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing & Communications Officer / Tech Mahindra

Peter Thirkell

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Peter Weedfald

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing SHARP Home Appliances - SEMCA / Sharp Electronics Corporation USA

Phani Nagarjuna - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Founder Institute

Pieter Pretorius

Job Titles:
  • General Manager Strategic Marketing and Branding ( Acting ) Eskom Holdings Ltd.

Prakash Vel Kumar Shankar

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / University of Wollongong

Pramod Pratap - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing
  • Director - Marketing, Healthcare & Life Sciences
Pramod Pratap is the Director of marketing, healthcare, and life sciences.

Pride Maunatlala

Job Titles:
  • Global Marketing Officer

R.C. Kopf

Job Titles:
  • International Marketing

Rahul De - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer

Rajendra Srivastava

Job Titles:
  • Novartis Professor of Marketing Strategy and Innovation / Indian School of Business

Rajesh Kumar

Job Titles:
  • Global Chief Marketing Officer

Rakesh Bamzai

Job Titles:
  • President, India, Emerging Asia & Access Markets, Commercial Expansion & Growth Market

Ralf Wagner

Job Titles:
  • SVI Endowed Chair for International Direct Marketing / University of Kassel

Ralph Brunner

Job Titles:
  • Special Advisor to the CEO, InsurtTech Capabilities

Ralph J. Tyser

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Science & Chair of Department of Marketing

Rashi Glazer

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing

Ravi Dhar

Job Titles:
  • George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing & Director of the Center for Customer Insights / Yale University

Ravi Kathuria - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Rayhana Erasmus - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing

Raymond Sze

Job Titles:
  • Chief Representation at China Oriental

Raymond Totti

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President / UNO Radio Group

Rhiannon Scarlett - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Riadh Dridi

Job Titles:
  • Operating Partner

Ricardo Oberlander

Job Titles:
  • Europe Advisory Board Chair, CMO Council
Ricardo has extensive marketing experience and has been based in countries across Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and North America. More

Robert Befidi

Job Titles:
  • President, Diagnostics / Envista

Robert Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean
Associate Dean & Sir Julian Hodge Chaired Professor in Marketing and Strategy

Robin Seow

Job Titles:
  • Head of Global Marketing, Group Enterprise

Roger Menz

Job Titles:
  • European Head of Artist Marketing & Partnerships / Amazon

Roger Neale-May - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Ronald Prasad

Job Titles:
  • Regional Head of Business / Enterprise / Telstra

Rosemary Mugambi

Job Titles:
  • Sales and Marketing Director

Royce Shih

Job Titles:
  • Vice President and Head of Commercial, APAC / PR

Ruth Rowan - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Sandeep Suvarna

Job Titles:
  • Head of International Marketing

Sandeep Walunj

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer / Nippon

Sandro Tavares

Job Titles:
  • Director, Telecom Systems Marketing

Sanjay Sharma

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, Applied Alliances

Sanjiv Karani

Job Titles:
  • Chief

Sean Kapoor

Job Titles:
  • Global VP, Brand and Customer Strategy

Sebastian S. Kresge

Job Titles:
  • Marketing, Operations, and Information Management

Sevgi Gur - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Shalabh Atray

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer - Mobility

Shalini Rao - CMO

Job Titles:
  • CMO

Sharad Jain

Job Titles:
  • Head ECommerce Product & Marketing - Appliances

Shashank Sinha

Job Titles:
  • Vice President & Product Group Head / Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Shehzad Bhanji

Former Head of Global Client Services: Marketing, Communications & Brand - EMEAT & SEA

Sherry Sanger

Job Titles:
  • EVP Marketing and Chief Marketing Officer

Siddharth Taparia

Job Titles:
  • Global Chief Marketing Officer

Sithembile Ntombela

Job Titles:
  • Acting Chief Executive Officer

Sonia Sahney

Job Titles:
  • Formerly Chief Marketing Officer, Molecular Imaging & CT Scanners

Soumitra Sen - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder

Stan Maklan

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing and Technology / Cranfield University

Stephanie Tully - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
As CEO of Jetstar Airways, Stephanie's 15 years of customer strategy, marketing and operational experience from the aviation, retail and professional services industries helps her to lead the highly talented Jetstar Airways team. She is passionate in the belief that customers are the most powerful marketers and that the key to ongoing success is knowing and authentically engaging our customers as individuals. Stephanie formerly worked at the Qantas Group in a variety of roles. She was appointed Chief Marketing Officer for Qantas Group after serving as the CMO for Qantas Loyalty. Previous Qantas Group roles include Head of Airline Loyalty and Head of Customer Experience Design. Prior to Qantas, Stephanie spent time working for David Jones, Ansett Australia and as a management consultant. Stephanie graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne in 1996.

Steve Burgess

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Steven Bushong

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Executive & Team Coach
For over 25 years, Steven has created significant value through innovation, transformation, leading teams and developing individuals around the world. He has decided to increase his impact in the world by helping people and organizations achieve their full potential through Coaching, Mentoring, Training and Consulting. He works with people who want to make an impact in the world including Senior executives working through challenges and transition, Early to mid-career management preparing for what's next, and People and teams needing to innovate and navigate change. He was formerly SVP Marketing Operations at The Walt Disney Company.

Steven Tan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Business Advisor / Oracle

Sudhanshu Tripathi

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Head Marketing & Growth

Sujit Ganguli

Job Titles:
  • CMO / ICICI Bank

Sumeet Grover

Job Titles:
  • Chief Digital & Marketing Officer

Sumit Virmani - EVP

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President
  • Global Chief Marketing Officer

Suparna Chhibber - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder

Suresh Balaji

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer / Lloyds Banking Group

Sydney Mbhele

Job Titles:
  • Group Chief Marketing & Corporate Affairs Officer

Tarek Abdalla

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, CMO - Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa / Visa

Taro Kamioka

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Ted Chi

Job Titles:
  • VP, Marketing Strategy - Digital Distribution

Tevfik Secilmis

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing, EMEA Region / Coats PLC

Thokozani Unyolo

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer / Air Cargo Malawi LTD

Tiffany Carpenter

Job Titles:
  • Digital Strategy Consultant to the Worlds Leading Banks - Microsoft Global Banking Team / Microsoft

Tlalane Ntuli

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer / Metropolitan

Todd Landry

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Vice President, Product and Market Strategy
  • Technology, Business & Marketing Executive
Mr. Landry is a technology, business & marketing executive with a long history of developing and marketing winning product portfolios and is a well-known industry leader in the areas of IT & Communications for his successful vision and strategies. Landry leads the strategic product portfolio planning and marketing for JMA wireless. Mr. Landry held senior positions in companies that include NEC Corporation, Sphere Communications, 3Com's CommWorks Corporation, and U.S. Robotics, where he led strategy, product management, marketing, business development & alliances functions. Mr. Landry's experience stems from a diverse background in engineering, marketing, and business where he developed an in depth knowledge of complex system architectures, software and wireless systems. Landry holds two patents in the area of communications and wireless data systems and is a regular speaker in numerous global forums, panels, keynotes, and in relations with media and analysts. He has been awarded numerous product achievement and market awards and was selected as one of the Top 100 Voices in the communications industry. He is a member and contributor to many technology and marketing organizations, company advisory boards, and has served on multiple industry standards boards. Mr. Landry attended DeVry University and Northeastern Illinois University.

Tom Kaneshige

Job Titles:
  • Officer at CMO Council
Tom Kaneshige is the Chief Content Officer at CMO Council. He creates all forms of digital thought leadership content that helps chief marketers, line of business leaders, as well as growth and revenue officers succeed in their rapidly evolving roles. As a content marketing strategist, he helps vendors shape and influence demand for their products and services. His pre-sales role is to gain brand influence, prominence and trust, as well as source qualified leads and customer opportunities. A Silicon Valley native, Kaneshige has covered the intersection of business and technology for 20 years as an award-winning journalist at IDG (CIO Magazine, InfoWorld), Informa/Penton and TechTarget, and as a senior analyst at Forrester Research. He is immersed in the expanding marketing and sales technology landscape, disruptive trends impacting business leaders, and game-changing technology such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. Kaneshige heads a team that produces research reports, articles, white papers, strategic briefs, news releases, social media and web site information. He also edits monthly journals, digital magazines, newsletters, blogs and web content for Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council's executive networks. These include the Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network, and the newly formed Growth Officer Council and Growth Guidance Center.

Tumelo Chaka

Job Titles:
  • Executive
  • Head

V. Kumar

Job Titles:
  • Richard & Susan Lenny Distinguished Chair in Marketing / Georgia State University

Valeria Abadi - SVP

Job Titles:
  • SVP

Vanessa Singh

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Commission Board Member

Venkatesh Shankar

Job Titles:
  • Ford Chair Professor in Marketing & E - Commerce / Texas a & M University

Vicky Elliot

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director - CRM & Loyalty / Jumeirah Group

Vikram Krishna

Job Titles:
  • EVP and Head of Group Marketing & Customer Experience

Vinay Bhatia

Job Titles:
  • Customer Care Associate and Vice - President, Marketing and Loyalty / Shoppers Stop Ltd

Vineet Kanaujia - CMO

Job Titles:
  • CMO

Vithala Rao

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing and Quantitative Method / Cornell University

Vivek Kumar

Job Titles:
  • APAC Advisory Board Chair CEO

Vivian Gomes - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Wendy Bergsteedt

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing / Old Mutual Investment Group

William Douglas - Chief Commercial Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Commercial Officer

Yasmin Khaliq

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Director, Growth & Emerging Markets

Yolanda Woeke Jacobs - VP of Sales

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Sales and Marketing

Yvette Templar

Job Titles:
  • Head of Brand and Marketing, Australia & New Zealand