providing guidance and expertise
Global Marketing Exchange has hand-selected a team of senior marketing executives to serve as mentors to our trainees. Every program participant will have the opportunity to learn and gain insight from these industry leaders throughout their time in New York City, London, and Washington, D.C. Our mentors include:
Executive Director, Media Marketing Minds
Liz is a seasoned marketing executive with 20 years of experience in media and technology organizations, including Yahoo!, Reuters and Hearst. In addition to her role at Media Marketing Minds (M3), a small marketing consultancy, she holds the position of Marketing Director for our very own Global Marketing Exchange, where she works hand-and-hand with the founder and CMO to grow the program.
Chief Marketing Officer, Anthemis Group
At Anthemis, Leslie leads the team tasked with growing the firm’s reputation among investors, clients, partners and entrepreneurs around the world. She’s spent her career exploring the way technology transforms communications and has helped startups, mid-size challenger brands and global tech companies drive their businesses forward with award-winning integrated marketing programs. Prior to joining Anthemis, Leslie was Senior Vice President, Digital Practice Lead at MSLGROUP, Publicis Groupe’s strategic communications agency, and in 2012, she launched European technology communications consultancy, Hotwire.
Principal Owner at YMG Consulting
Scott brings expertise in developing marketing programs for various customers segments such as consumer, business-to-business, small business, and travel to clients such as American Express and Pepercomm, helping to formulate and implement integrated marketing plans and strategies.
Senior Director Product Management, WebMD
In his role, Mark is responsible for evolving and innovating commercial experiences, products and services across the WebMD.com's digital portfolio and advancing its global leadership in health, wellness, medical news and information. Prior to joining WebMD, Mark held senior management positions at The New York Times, Thomson Reuters and Crain Communications.
At Mercer, one of the worlds largest B2B consulting groups, Barney helps to create world class customer experiences for the company’s clients and their 100m employees, while simultaneously transforming the marketing and communications to current and future clients through insightful, digitally-centric, data-rich, multi-platform communications and services.
Chief Marketing Officer at Ipreo
Kate joined Ipreo in 2006 as Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Global Marketing & Communications at Ipreo Holdings LLC. In her current role as CMO, she’s responsible for Ipreo global marketing efforts across all business lines, as well as internal and external communications.
EVP, Strategy & Digital Transformation, Vertic
At Vertic, Kim is part of the executive management group tasked with expanding the global digital agency. He has 15 years of experience working in digital and strategic marketing roles with Fortune 500 companies in EU and US, as well as seven years of General Management experience. Prior to joining Vertic he served as a Business Consultant with Nielsen and a Management Consultant with Quartz. His strategic marketing clients have included General Electric (GE), SAP Ariba, Velux, Vestas, Microsoft, Coloplast, LEO Pharma, Oticon and others.
Founder & Chief Marketing Officer, Ricciardi Group
In 2014, Marisa launched the Ricciardi Group to provide Fortune 500 corporations with strategies and ideas to help them adapt, recruit and transform in a new digital paradigm, while also advising start-ups and pre-IPO companies how to perform more effectively, scale, drive user engagement and revenue. Prior to launching her own company, Marisa served as the Chief Marketing Officer of NYSE Euronext.
VP Offering Management and Strategy – Watson, IBM
Responsible for IBM's Marketing Solutions, Mark is an experienced company Founder and Leader in Technology and Marketing. Prior to joining IBM, he founded and built Maxymiser, an acknowledged global leader in Customer Experience Optimization, which has since been acquired by Oracle. He’s experienced at building and leading high performing teams across the US, EMEA and APAC and he regularly serves as a thought leader and speaker on a broad range of digital topics.
Chief Marketing Officer, Interbrand
Andrea has served as Chief Marketing Officer of North America at Interbrand since 2013. Previously, she served as Chief Executive Officer of Interbrand London, and Executive Director of Client Services, where she was responsible for client services and marketing for Interbrand North America. Andrea has played a pivotal role in developing and promoting the company on a global scale, having delivered interactive experiences with partners such as the ANA, Cannes, Deloitte, Guggenheim, Harvard, Lyons, MoMA, NYSE, United Nations, World Business Forum and Yale.
Partner, AM Consulting (London) Limited
Ana Maria is a business coach and has been in executive search since 2005. Her track record spans across top level executive appointments within private equity backed businesses in the technology, fintech and industrial sectors. Prior to that she worked in M&A at Lazard in London and New York before joining a private equity fund in London in 2002. She is a Founding Member of the Institute of Coaching Professional Association (ICPA) and is a certified coach by the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC).
Our alumni speak
“In my first few weeks on the job I was able to help with a website launch for a large global brand. I thoroughly enjoyed working on the project as I was able to dive right in and learn a tremendous amount in a short space of time, and I received great reviews from my manager and team which gave me a big confidence boost.
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Managing Partner, Revlyst
In his role at Revlyst, Taylor helps media companies accelerate their digital transformation and connect them with innovative technology startups to drive revenue growth. A senior marketing and sales executive with a proven track record of building successful brands and driving revenue in multimedia environments, Taylor has a strong background in all aspects of marketing, brand management, social marketing, digital content management, digital ad product development, magazine publishing and international business. Previously, he ran his own consulting firm, and held senior executive roles at Newsweek, The Huffington Post, Thomson Reuters and Time Magazine and Time.com.