Jake Fabbri; Senior Vice President, Marketing; Fonteva
Hometown: Bakersfield, CA
Favorite Vacation Spot? The beach, anywhere warm. Rehoboth Beach if I had to pick one.
Company (not your own) you most admire for its marketing? Harley Davidson
Biggest trend creating opportunities for marketers this year? Better individual targeting tools across social and other mediums. Artificial Intelligence and predictive analytics, providing the ability to look forward rather than just reporting on the past.
Biggest trend creating challenges for marketers this year? GDPR, and any other overly complicated privacy regulations.
Non-marketing job you’d love to have? Restaurant owner
Gayle Weiswasser; SVP Communications and Marketing, Homesnap
Hometown: Washington DC native!
Favorite Vacation Spot? Outer Banks, NC
Company (not your own) you most admire for its marketing? Apple
Biggest trend creating opportunities for marketers this year? Video, video, video. (Don't expect anyone to read anything anymore!)
Biggest trend creating challenges for marketers this year? The death of organic reach.
Non-marketing job you’d love to have? Novelist
Vicki Warker, CMO, Savi Technology
Hometown: Washington, DC
Favorite Vacation Spot? Somewhere beautiful I haven’t been with beaches, mountains and a spa – I like new experiences and I want lots of option.
Company (not your own) you most admire for its marketing? Consumer – Lululemon, B2B – CA Technologies
Biggest trend creating opportunities for marketers this year? Economic Growth mostly and always Disruptive Digital Technologies
Biggest trend creating challenges for marketers this year? More spend on marketing means more market noise, your have to be targeted, crisp and extremely relevant.
Non-marketing job you’d love to have? Global Travel Critic – but I guess that sort of is a marketing job.
Anuj Agrawal, CMO, Earth Networks
Hometown: Oswego, NY
Favorite Vacation Spot? Costa Rica
Company (not your own) you most admire for its marketing? Drift
Biggest trend creating opportunities for marketers this year? The power of intent data
Biggest trend creating challenges for marketers this year? Merging of datasets from disparate marketing platforms
Non-marketing job you’d love to have? Behavioral psychologist
Kris Stevens; Vice President, Marketing; MBO Partners
Hometown: New Canaan, CT
Favorite Vacation Spot? Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Company (not your own) you most admire for its marketing? Taco Bell
Biggest trend creating opportunities for marketers this year? Video/ Authentic Video
Biggest trend creating challenges for marketers this year? EU GDPR Standards
Non-marketing job you’d love to have? Owner/ Operator – Home for Wayward Pugs (aka “Fat Dog Farm”)
Brian Reed, CMO, NowSecure Mobile
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Favorite Vacation Spot? Outer Banks
Company (not your own) you most admire for its marketing? SpaceX for social, video and fan engagement
Biggest trend creating opportunities for marketers this year? Bots
Biggest trend creating challenges for marketers this year? Bots
Non-marketing job you’d love to have? Founder of local Autism/Asperger College in DC metro area
Nate Sullivan, Director of Marketing, FiscalNote
Hometown: Portsmouth, RI
Favorite Vacation Spot: Newport, RI
Marketing I Admire Most: Nike
Biggest trend creating opportunities for marketers this year: Privacy issues forcing us to be more interesting and less annoying
Biggest trend creating challenges for marketers this year: Increasingly complicated and fragile marketing technology stacks
Non-marketing job you’d love to have: Product manager