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Kimberly Hairston-Hicks Builds Brands From the Human Truth Out
She wanted to be the next Oprah. Instead, a chance conversation led her to brand management, the beauty industry, and a career built on one persistent question: who is the market still failing to see?
Anna Bell’s Quiet System for Making Brands Matter
From treasury desks to grocery aisles, the Central Garden & Pet executive has built a career on a deceptively simple idea: listen closely before asking a brand to speak.
Arik Flanders Is Marketing the Machinery of Everyday Government
After 14 years marketing semiconductors, Arik Flanders moved into public-sector software. Now his job is to turn the hidden systems behind courts, taxes, schools and public safety into a story people can understand.
Jennifer Luisa Built a 25-Year Career by Refusing to Stand Still
At The Hanover, Jennifer Luisa turned longevity into a form of motion - crossing functions, building connections and keeping a 174-year-old insurer legible to the people it serves.
Richard Manso Is Building the Marketing Muscle Between Data and Trust
After building digital systems inside Lancôme, scaling ecommerce at L’Oréal, and guiding retail marketing at Google, Richard Manso has taken on Haleon’s U.S. marketing brief. His career is a case study in turning technology from a department into an operating habit.
Jeremy Shepherd Has Spent Two Decades Learning Where a Brand Meets the Buyer
Before Jeremy Shepherd became Brown-Forman's chief marketing officer, he spent two decades close to the places where strategy gets tested - markets, distributors, stores and teams. His route from Canada to London to Louisville explains the operator behind the title.
Lee Sterling
She bet a 3,600-person retail empire on a simple idea: the mall never actually died. It just needed a better story - and a Simple Minds song.
Elizabeth Melley
Elizabeth Melley is the Chief Merchandising Officer at Gerber Childrenswear LLC, a New York-based apparel executive who has spent three decades designing and building product lines in retail. She started as a designer at Abercrombie & Fitch in 1993 and went on to lead product design and development at Mervyns, Sprockets Kids Clothing, and JCPenney before joining Gerber in 2022. At Gerber she oversees merchandising and product for a portfolio of baby and toddler brands, and has driven launches like the Livaeco-based 'Our Softest Edit' conscious clothing line and the expansion of the modern moments line.
Melanie Kaloski
Melanie Kaloski is the Chief Marketing Officer of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), the nation's largest nonprofit supporting Hispanic American higher education. A brand-builder by training, she spent more than a decade shaping consumer brands at Capital Group's American Funds, Nestle and Beachbody before turning her marketing craft toward mission work - helping Latino students and families find the resources to earn a college degree. She holds a B.A. from Amherst College and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, and is fluent in French.
Paige Fuller
Paige Cannon Fuller is the Chief Marketing Officer of The Icebox Cool Stuff, an Atlanta-based branded merchandise and apparel agency, where she leads the marketing and creative teams that build merch programs for enterprise clients such as Delta Air Lines and the NYSE. A marketing and brand strategist with a background spanning apparel, e-commerce and consumer brands, she joined Icebox in 2018 as VP of Marketing & Brand Management and was elevated to CMO in 2024. Earlier she founded the advisory shop Fuller Made and held senior marketing roles at Alternative Apparel.
Jonathan Gardner
Jonathan Gardner is the founding CEO of Harris Quest, the AI-powered research and brand-management platform built by The Harris Poll and Stagwell's The Marketing Cloud. Appointed in December 2025, he brings more than 30 years in market research and polling, including nearly a decade as Chief Operating Officer of The Harris Poll and senior operating roles at Penn Schoen Berland, Subject Matter, and The Marketing Cloud. He began his career writing in the Clinton White House speechwriting office, and now translates decades of client-side research craft into software.
Basit Abbassi
Basit Abbassi is a Karachi-based marketing and growth leader with 13+ years of experience scaling startups and brands across Pakistan. Known for his bootstrapping ethos and hands-on brand-building, he has contributed to ventures that were acquired by the likes of Careem and the Malak Group. Currently serving as Chief Marketing Officer at Snapp! Box, a Tehran-based logistics platform, he brings a rare blend of service-sector grit and digital strategy to every role.