Intelligence
in the AI Era

Chief Marketing Officer at Tishman Speyer, the global real estate firm behind Rockefeller Center, a campus that draws millions of visitors a year and anchors a portfolio of landmark properties across dozens of markets worldwide. She leads brand, marketing and customer experience across that portfolio and is a clear voice on how marketing organizations are being redesigned around AI.

Chief Executive Officer of ITG powered by Storyteq, a marketing production and technology group of roughly 1,700 people working across 17 countries on around GBP 140 million in annual revenue. He helps global brands rebuild creative and marketing supply chains so campaigns can be versioned and rolled out at the speed of AI.

Founder & Chief Executive Officer of cc:babs, advising brands and businesses at the intersection of media, marketing and technology. He previously ran global media innovation and ventures at Unilever, helping steward one of the world's largest advertising portfolios, and later led global marketing solutions at IBM and marketing at Paramount.

President of Havas Health Network, where she leads teams helping health and wellness brands connect strategy, creativity, media and technology. Drawing on senior leadership experience across the industry, she brings a practical view of what it takes to move ambitious ideas through complex organizations and into the market.

EVP, Global Brand Strategy and Innovation at Mastercard, a company with more than $28 billion in annual net revenue whose brand travels across more than 200 countries and billions of transactions. She shapes how one of the world's most recognized marks shows up across products, sponsorships, partnerships and experiences.

Global Ads Solutions Lead at OpenAI, working with marketers and publishers as advertising takes shape on a platform used by hundreds of millions of people every week. She sits at the point where the largest advertisers in the world meet an entirely new surface for discovery.

Founder & Chief Executive Officer of PactFi, an AI-powered financial technology company modernizing how private credit teams manage complex deal workflows. After working inside global financial services, including Deutsche Bank, she is applying institutional experience to build faster, more connected infrastructure for private markets.

Managing Director & Partner at Boston Consulting Group, a $13.5 billion global consultancy, where she advises marketing, media and consumer companies on growth, brand and AI-driven transformation. Her clients are typically multibillion-dollar businesses rewiring marketing operating models from the top down.

Formerly Head of Global Marketing Operations at Haleon, the consumer health company with around GBP 11 billion in annual revenue and nine power brands including Sensodyne, Advil and Centrum. He connected customer signals, content, media and measurement into a single marketing intelligence stack spanning those brands and more than 100 markets.

Board member at Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, a roughly $2 billion global out-of-home media company, and at Cox Media Group. A serial founder and former president of advertising revenue at Fox Networks, he has built and sold advertising technology businesses and spent his career at the frontier of how brands and audiences connect.

Chief Marketing Officer at Coach, the largest brand inside Tapestry's record $7 billion portfolio and one of the strongest growth stories in global luxury. She leads global marketing, creative and customer experience, building Coach's cultural relevance and translating deeper consumer connections into enduring brand strength and accelerated growth. She is reimagining how Coach builds desire and earns loyalty as AI reshapes how consumers discover, experience and connect with luxury brands.

VP of Performance Media at Pfizer, a global biopharmaceutical company with more than $60 billion in annual revenue and approximately 50,000 colleagues. He built and leads one of the industry's largest in-house media teams, spanning paid search, social, programmatic, audience strategy, connected TV, SEO and AI discoverability.

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Tough Day & Human Positive, a company focused on helping people and organizations navigate difficult moments and unlock human potential. A former Salesforce executive, she brings experience scaling innovation inside a major enterprise to the work of building a more human-centered AI venture from the ground up.

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of OptimizeGEO.ai, helping brands win visibility and trust in AI-driven discovery. She previously ran multibillion-dollar businesses at Meta, where she was the company's first employee in India and later led global partnerships, and invested at scale from SoftBank's $100 billion Vision Fund.

Managing Partner and Global Head of the Marketing Practice at Heidrick & Struggles, a roughly $1.1 billion executive search and leadership advisory firm. She places and advises the chief marketing officers of global companies and has a live read on how AI is rewriting the job description at the top.

Chief Marketing & Customer Officer at JCPenney, a retailer with more than 650 stores, some 50,000 associates and billions in annual sales. A veteran CMO who has led brand marketing at Taco Bell, Lowe's and Estee Lauder, she now owns brand, marketing and the end-to-end customer relationship.

SVP of Marketing & Technology at Expedia Group, a travel platform with more than $110 billion in annual gross bookings and upwards of $13 billion in revenue. He works where enterprise marketing, media and engineering intersect, running the systems behind marketing spend at global scale.

Independent journalist covering advertising, marketing and technology, previously at Forbes and Adweek. He has interviewed hundreds of chief marketers and platform executives and reports closely on how AI is changing the industry's economics.

Chief Strategy Officer at Razorfish, where he leads brand and experience strategy for global clients. A cross-trained marketer with more than 20 years across Publicis Groupe agencies, including leadership roles at Rokkan and Leo Burnett, he brings deep expertise in connecting brand purpose, digital innovation and experience design in the AI era.

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of NinjaCat, the AI-powered performance data platform used by agencies and brands to unify reporting across billions of dollars of managed media. He is building the layer that turns fragmented channel data into continuous decisions.

Senior Fellow at Mastercard and, for more than a decade, its Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, where he ran marketing for a company of more than $28 billion in net revenue across 200-plus countries. Bestselling author of Quantum Marketing and one of the most decorated marketers of his generation.

Chief Financial Officer of Groupon, where he oversees finance, investor relations, corporate development and strategy, and is building finance into an AI-enabled function that drives planning, capital allocation and decision speed. Previously Director of Research at investment firm RPD Fund Management, with earlier roles at Danaher and JPMorgan Chase.

Founder & Chief Executive Officer of tendercare, an AI venture reimagining how people navigate and coordinate care. Previously a senior leader at Meta, she brings experience operating at global technology scale to the challenge of building a trusted, human-centered company in a rapidly changing market.

Public-company board member at Sunrun, the largest residential solar company in the United States with roughly a million customers, and at TrueBlue, a staffing group that connects hundreds of thousands of people to work each year. A former HP and Siemens executive, she brings a boardroom view of AI governance and risk.

Chief Marketing Officer at McAfee, which protects more than 600 million devices worldwide and reads signal from over 100 million global threat sensors. She leads global marketing for a consumer business that has to earn trust at that scale, every renewal cycle.

President of Zeta Global, the AI marketing cloud that crossed $1 billion in annual revenue in 2024, growing 38 percent, on an identity graph covering hundreds of millions of consumers. He works with enterprise brands on data-driven acquisition, engagement and growth.

Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Co, advising brands and startups on marketing, data and AI-driven growth. A former CMO and co-founder of Encantos, he has led marketing at Quantcast, Neustar and Nielsen, businesses whose data touched most of the US consumer population.

Advertising Editor at The Wall Street Journal, where she has covered the advertising and marketing industry for more than two decades for an audience of millions of subscribers. She breaks many of the stories that move a trillion-dollar global ad market.

Former Chief Marketing Officer of the NBA, where she led all global marketing for the league and its affiliates and helped build the NBA App and NBA ID membership platform. Previously SVP of Marketing for Paramount+, where she led the streaming service's global launch, and earlier led digital subscription marketing at The New York Times. An Ad Age 40 Under 40 honoree.

Co-Founder of AI Trailblazers and Co-Founder of Instalily, which has raised close to $100 million including a $60 million Series B to build AI agents that turn enterprise data into decisions and actions. Formerly president of 1-800-Flowers, where he ran a multibillion-dollar consumer business.

Co-Founder of AI Trailblazers, author of Savvy and Social Media Marketing for Dummies, and a longtime marketing executive who has led digital and marketing organizations at Visa, PepsiCo, Expedia Group and LendingTree, businesses reaching hundreds of millions of customers. He advises brands and boards on AI-driven transformation.