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After two decades in media, Marcella Sciorra carried television's oldest lesson into healthcare advertising's newest frontier: reach means little without relevance, and relevance means little without trust.
Acxiom began with mailing lists and one computer in Arkansas. Today, its identity layer helps global brands decide when scattered signals belong to the same person - and how to act on that knowledge without losing control of the data.

Rachael Donnelly did not plan on a career in marketing. A nonprofit modernization project, an unpaid ad-tech internship and years spent translating complex products taught her how to make data useful - and how to lead without pretending change will stop.