
Before travel loyalty, Jeff Zotara helped assemble green schools and marketed a GPS tracker for pets. The industries changed; his method did not: listen closely, build flexibly, and make technology answer to real life.

After four decades across Del Monte, Citibank, Cigna, AIG and Aon, Daniel Doherty has arrived at a deceptively simple marketing idea: relevance begins with listening, and data is useful only when it helps a customer feel understood.