The Next CMO

In this episode of The Next CMO podcast, I speak to Glenn Bottomly, the CMO of Taylor Corporation, one of the leading providers of print services. In 1959, Glen Taylor took a job at Carlson Wedding Services, a small printing business in North Mankato, Minnesota. In 1975, after working at nearly every job in Carlson and helping to double its size, Taylor purchased the company, and Taylor Corporation was born. For more than 45 years, Taylor Corporation has continued to innovate and expand into a company of extraordinary depth and diversity, evolving into an industry-leading provider of print, communications, marketing technology and interactive solutions. Make sure you check out Glenn’s podcast, the Art of Marketing Operations: https://www.taylor.com/art-of-marketing-operations

In this episode of The Next CMO podcast, I speak to Norman Guadagno, the CMO of Mimecast. ​​Since 2003, Mimecast has stopped bad things from happening to good organizations by enabling them to work protected. We empower over 40,000 customers to mitigate risk and manage complexities across a threat landscape driven by malicious cyberattacks, human error, and technology fallibility. Our advanced solutions provide proactive threat detection, brand protection, awareness training, and data retention capabilities evolving workplaces need today. Mimecast transforms email and collaboration security into the eyes and ears of organizations worldwide.

In this episode of The Next CMO podcast, I speak to Dave Carrel, the CMO of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters (NYSE / TSX: TRI) informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. The company serves professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Its products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

In this episode of The Next CMO podcast, I speak to Louise Troen, the CMO of Reveri. Reveri’s self-hypnosis app helps anyone relieve pain and stress, improve sleep, and build better habits in as little as ten minutes. Backed by decades of scientific research and clinical experience, Reveri is the easiest way to change your mind and improve your life. Louise walks us through how she took a self-hypnosis brand to the masses.

In this episode of The Next CMO podcast, I speak to Domenic Colasante, the CEO of 2X. Founded in 2017, by 3 former B2B CMOs, 2X is a B2B-focused Marketing as a Service firm that enables marketing to operate with greater impact and at significantly lower cost. A pioneer in offshoring B2B marketing, 2X provides clients with world-class talent at labor rates of 30-50% less than US equivalents. 2X’s global headquarters are outside Philadelphia, PA, USA and delivery operations reside in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2X enables a client’s on-shore team to focus on strategy and planning, while off-shore teams focus on marketing execution including build, run, and optimize activity. With capabilities across marketing operations, digital campaigns, graphic design, content operations & writing, web management, research, analytics, and the full marketing technology stack, 2X enables our clients to adopt a global operating model and reimagine their marketing mix.

In this episode of The Next CMO podcast, I speak to Stephanie Danzi, the SVP and Global Head of Marketing for Tinder, the world’s most popular app for meeting new people that has been downloaded more than 530 million times. The app is available in 190 countries and 45+ languages. More than half of all members are 18-25 years old. In 2022, Tinder was named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. Stephanie leads brand strategy, product marketing, and creative for Tinder. Named a “CMO to Watch” by Business Insider in 2022, Stephanie is a uniquely well-rounded marketer who has the rare ability to blend brand strategy, creative excellence, and analytical rigor to drive business results. Prior to Tinder, Stephanie served as Head of Marketing for Match Group’s innovation hub +1 Labs, where she launched two top-charting dating apps: Ship, which reached 100K downloads faster than any other dating app, and Stir, the #1 dating app for single parents and one of the top 20 largest dating apps in the U.S. Passionate about solving consumer and business problems, Stephanie built her marketing acumen at PepsiCo, where she developed award-winning creative for Mtn Dew, including 2018’s most watched Super Bowl ad, and launched multiple products that grossed more than $100MM in retail sales in their first year.

In this episode of The Next CMO podcast, I speak to TJ Waldorf, the CMO of 1WorldSync, the leader in Product Content Orchestration. 1WorldSync simplifies the creation and distribution of impactful content that’s accurate, consistent and relevant everywhere commerce happens.

In this episode of The Next CMO podcast, I speak to Melissa Sargeant, CMO of AlphaSense, a market intelligence platform used by the world’s leading companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, our AI-based technology has helped professionals make smarter business decisions by delivering insights from an extensive universe of public and private content—including company filings, event transcripts, news, trade journals, expert calls, and equity research. Our platform is trusted by over 2,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 100. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,000 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, Germany, and India.

In this episode of The Next CMO podcast, I speak to Khurrum Malik, the CMO of Integral Ad Science (IAS) and the science of attention and how it impacts your advertising strategy. IAS delivers the industry’s most actionable data to drive superior results for the world’s largest advertisers, publishers, and media platforms.Learn more about the IAS research study on attention here: https://integralads.com/insider/driving-outcomes-viewability-research/

In this episode of The Next CMO podcast, I speak to returning guest, Ana Villegas, the CMO of AffiniPay, the market leader in professional services payments serving legal, accounting, architectural, engineering and construction firms.Ana joined AffiniPay from National Instruments, where she also served as the CMO.AffiniPay has been recognized as one of Inc. 5000’s fastest growing companies for 10 years in a row. Each of its brands leads the market it serves with solutions purpose-built by industry including LawPay, ClientPay, CPACharge, and AffiniPay for Associations. AffiniPay’s solutions are trusted by more than 60,000 firms with more than 150 strategic partnerships and endorsements, including the American Bar Association and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.