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Susan Flinn Cobian Built Her Career on the Words: No One Else Will
A fax machine, a Rolodex and zero clients were enough to begin. Nearly four decades later, the SFC Group founder still treats impossible assignments as invitations to build.
Rhiannon Naslund Learned the Product Before She Sold the Story
From a hospital dietetics role to the C-suite of enterprise software, Rhiannon Naslund built a career by getting close to complicated products - then making their value legible.
Katie Fairchild Runs Marketing by the Numbers - and Keeps Finding Another Gear
The first CMO of Buyers Edge Platform has spent nearly two decades turning complicated software into useful stories. Her résumé has an unexpected metronome: a mathematics master’s, four faster marathons, and a habit of making growth measurable.
Chris Burns Put Marketing on the Hook for Results - Then Learned When to Let Go
At Kalderos, Chris Burns helped turn a specialist compliance product into a larger business story. His next lesson arrived after the acquisition: a fixer also has to know when to leave the field.
Alexandra Taylor Wants Marketing to Answer One Rude Little Question: Did It Make Money?
After more than 15 years moving between household-name companies and fast-growing technology businesses, Scorpion's CMO is making the case for marketing that listens closely, measures honestly, and ends at revenue.
Guy Mansueto Has Spent 30 Years Making Complicated Healthcare Technology Make Sense
Before he sold the promise of healthcare software, Guy Mansueto helped install it. That operator's education became the quiet advantage behind a career spanning Allscripts, Phytel, IBM Watson Health, Bamboo Health and PartsSource.
Jeff Fagel Wants Television to Show Its Work
After a career stretching from margarine and Kmart to streaming ads and AI, the Chicago CMO keeps returning to one stubborn question: did the marketing move the business?
Taryn Young Has a CMO Job, a Grand Prix Horse and No Interest in Choosing Just One Life
By day, she markets digital trust to car dealers. Before and after, she has built a 20,000-plus-person horse community, launched an apparel label and ridden one unlikely partner from Training Level to Grand Prix.
Nicole Reinhart Knows the Best Marketing Department Is a Newsroom in Disguise
Before she marketed healthcare finance software, Nicole Reinhart spent a decade learning how an industry explains itself. Now the former editor is turning specialists, customer conversations and stubbornly complicated data into a story people can actually use.
Rob Kunzler Is Marketing the Room Where Decisions Become History
After two decades of selling complicated software in plain English, OnBoard's CMO has arrived at a harder brief: helping boards use technology without surrendering judgment.
Tracey Weinberg Wants Telecom to Stop Treating Payments Like Plumbing
After years marketing the machinery behind digital commerce, the Vesta executive has a blunt thesis: approval rates deserve the same attention as customer acquisition. A single percentage point can be worth $300,000 a year to a 100,000-subscriber operator.
Alice Phillips Topping Built a Brand for Risks That Resist the Usual Box
She began close to the risk, then learned how to explain it. At Ryan Specialty, Alice Phillips Topping has turned insurance fluency, curiosity and an agile in-house team into a durable communications system for a growing public company.
Emily Kehinde Built Her Way From Change Management to the C-Suite
Before she led a global brand, Emily Kehinde learned how organizations absorb change. Her rise at Cushman & Wakefield shows why the modern marketing job belongs as much to builders and translators as it does to storytellers.
Mallika Monteiro Turned a Reporter’s Instinct Into a Beer Brand Playbook
She once planned to become a political correspondent. Instead, she brought a reporter’s eye for people and narrative to Corona, Modelo and a $100 million bet on women founders.
Brian Jochum Still Believes a Brand Should Make Something Clear
From hair care and household appliances to enterprise AI, Virtusa's global marketing chief has spent a career translating complicated products into useful promises. His current argument is simple: speed matters, but clarity is the work.
Teresa Poggenpohl Has Spent a Career Making Old Companies Sound New
She helped turn Andersen Consulting into Accenture in 147 days. Now the Unisys CMO is applying the same discipline to a 150-year-old technology company - with intent data, client stories and a stubborn preference for proof.
Sandra Abrevaya Knows How to Turn a Public Mission Into an Operating System
Before she built a company, Sandra Abrevaya learned how power actually moves - through campaigns, coalitions, city halls and the stubborn work of getting people into the same room.
Simon Goodall Is Making the Car Payment Negotiable Again
The Caribou CEO has spent a career turning complicated marketplaces into simpler choices. His latest target is the monthly bill hiding in millions of driveways.
Jonathan Levine and the Art of Making Hard-to-Place Risks Legible
For more than three decades, Jonathan Levine has worked at the point where complicated products meet busy customers. His career offers a quiet lesson in B2B marketing: clarity becomes a form of service.
Stacey Eisen and the Quiet Architecture of Corporate Trust
For more than two decades, Stacey Eisen has worked where reputation, responsibility and the words a company chooses all meet. At Baxter, her remit now stretches from global communications and corporate marketing to the foundation that turns corporate purpose into community programs.
Stacey Ramstedt Counts What Makes a Brand Matter
The accountant turned CMO oversees about 80 brands, from a 180-year-old household staple to social-first beauty acquisitions. Her method begins with a plain question: why should one more household care?
Ian Pinner Has Spent 26 Years Learning How Food Moves
Seventeen roles, every region, one company. Ian Pinner's route from wheat trading to ADM's nutrition business shows what happens when a career is built by learning the whole system.
Elizabeth Brady
Elizabeth Brady's job stretches far beyond advertising. At Allstate, she connects brand, customer experience, product innovation, communications and community investment - then tests that system where culture is loudest.
Kelly Jordan
A finance-trained operator moved closer to the customer - and built a marketing career around the discipline of listening, measuring and adapting.
Samuel Bottum
Samuel Bottum built a marketing career around a practical idea: a durable brand begins with the people who know the work. At Snap-on, that has meant linking product innovation, customer insight and technical education across one unusually varied career.