Bio

Recently retired from world's best company where I served as CMCO, and now ready to pull on new threads of interest. BACKGROUND ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ I’ve built businesses and brands for some of the world’s best-known companies: Accenture, Kraft, AT&T, Verizon, Siemens, IBM, Deloitte, and MasterCard Worldwide, where I led the iconic and award-winning “Priceless” campaign. Throughout my career—including executive roles at Y&R, Dentsu, and Ogilvy & Mather, where my teams won awards for excellence and innovation—I’ve learned that good leaders are only good when they can find the brilliance and let it shine. At Accenture, I was charged with transforming and modernizing the function, and the company is now experiencing its largest-ever growth in the business and in brand value. Concurrently, I was named by Forbes as one of the World’s 50 Most Influential CMOs. BIO ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ I spent a lot of time as a child on a remote island, off the grid and on my game—swimming, reading, and building fires and lifelong skills. Fewer creature comforts inspired greater creativity. Today, I am energized by cycling, yoga, and reading, and love lighting a flame under great solutions to hard problems. Now serving on the boards of directors for Encore Global, a Blackstone portfolio company and the leader in events, and global nonprofit HealthRight International where I head the governance committee. I am a Fellow for LiveOn NY, the premier public policy and advocacy shop for the health and human services sector dedicated to older adults in New York, volunteer as a writing and career coach for the Posse Foundation, which helps diverse groups of college students achieve academic potential, and conduct pro-bono consulting for a diverse set of non-profits. BELIEFS ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ Creativity is a competitive advantage Curiosity is more productive than certainty Ski or be skied—my all-time favorite metaphor for nearly everything