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Silicon Labs Appoints Megan Lueders as Chief Marketing Officer

New Marketing Executive to Help Drive Company’s Growth

Silicon Labs , a leading provider of silicon, software and solutions for a smarter, more connected world, announced Megan Lueders has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer. With more than 20 years of high-tech executive experience, Lueders will lead the company’s global marketing team responsible for reputation management, sales pipeline acceleration and customer experience.

“I’m thrilled Megan has joined the leadership team to help scale our revenue to the next level,” said Tyson Tuttle, Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Labs. “The CMO role is one of the most influential in the company, and Megan has the strong leadership skills and business acumen we need to communicate our vision, engineering excellence and culture of innovation to customers, partners and the industry.”

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Lueders brings leadership and expertise in an array of marketing disciplines including brand awareness, corporate communications, sales and channel enablement, and global demand generation activities. During her career, Lueders has built high-performance marketing teams at industry leaders like Zenoss, Lifesize, a Division of Logitech, and Verizon to accelerate growth and meet key businesses objectives.

As CMO of Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations, Lueders transformed the company brand, elevated relationships with key enterprise customers and strategic partners including Google, Amazon (AWS), Nutanix and ServiceNow, and expanded the account-based marketing pipeline by 51 percent. Under her leadership Zenoss won recognition as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Intelligent Application and Service Monitoring.

Previously, Lueders served as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Lifesize, where she was instrumental in growing revenue 15x. She led the rebranding of Lifesize as the company transitioned from on-premises hardware to software as a service (SaaS) and helped guide Logitech’s successful $405 million acquisition of Lifesize.

“Silicon Labs plays an increasingly important role in the large and growing smart home, industrial IoT and infrastructure markets with a combination of innovative products and simple, scalable solutions,” said Lueders. “Our ability to expand marketing’s impact within the company to drive revenue is vast, and it starts with a creative, passionate and collaborative team.”

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Lueders holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in management from the Red McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. An active supporter of Austin-area non-profit organizations, she chairs the Texas 4000 board of directors and has served on the board of the YMCA of Austin.

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Momentum Accelerates with New Hires

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Nearly 2,000 New Employees Will Support Customer Growth, Product Innovation, and Data Center Expansion

Oracle announced plans to hire nearly 2,000 employees worldwide to work on its growing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure business. The new roles, which include software development, cloud operations, and business operations, will support Oracle’s rapidly expanding infrastructure customer base, and come as the company rolls out new product innovations and rapidly opens cloud regions around the globe.

“Cloud is still in its early days with less than 20 percent penetration , and enterprises are just beginning to use cloud for mission-critical workloads,” said Don Johnson, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Our aggressive hiring and growth plans are mapped to meet the needs of our customers, providing them reliability, high performance, and robust security as they continue to move to the cloud.”

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s portfolio has experienced significant growth. Recent product innovations include new automated cloud security services, the launch of Autonomous Linux, and a host of new cloud data services. Only Oracle Gen 2 Cloud is built to run Oracle’s leading suite of enterprise cloud applications and uses machine learning to deliver category-defining autonomous services, including Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Autonomous Linux. Additionally, Oracle is the only cloud infrastructure company in the world that delivers enterprise applications. This gives customers huge cost and competitive advantages and enables them to extend their applications as they grow.

In the past year, Oracle has opened 12 new Gen 2 Cloud regions and currently operates 16 regions globally, the fastest expansion by any major cloud provider. Continuing its rapid cadence of Oracle Gen 2 Cloud region launches, Oracle plans to add 20 more regions by the end of 2020, bringing the global footprint to 36 total regions. Eleven countries or jurisdictions will have region pairs that facilitate enterprise-class, multi-region, disaster-recovery strategies to better support those customers who want to store their data in-country or in-region.

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Today, Oracle is the only company delivering a complete and integrated set of cloud services and building intelligence into every layer of the cloud. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s growing talent base will ensure customers continue to benefit from best-in-class security, consistent high performance, simple predictable pricing, and the tools and expertise needed to bring enterprise workloads to cloud quickly and efficiently.

In addition to rapid hiring, Oracle will make additional real estate investments to support the expanded Oracle Cloud Infrastructure workforce.

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Leading Pricing & Sales Analytics & Training Company Acquires Jigsaw Systems

SPA (Strategic Pricing Associates) announces the signing of an agreement for the acquisition of software provider Jigsaw Systems. Jigsaw focuses on solving the issues associated with Special Price Agreement Contract Management, Inventory Optimization, Point-of-Sale Industry Hubs, and Pricing Analytics.

SPA and Jigsaw Systems have announced the acquisition of Jigsaw to offer unified strategic pricing, strategic costing, point of sale (POS), inventory management, sales enablement, and sales training solutions and platforms to the enterprise market. SPA will acquire the Jigsaw assets, people, and customer contracts, and the merged business will operate under the SPA brand. Both Jigsaw and SPA will continue to function as they have previously and support their respective customers with their existing products and services. Longer-term plans will be developed to further integrate the offering of the two companies and leverage each other’s strengths.

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“We’re passionate about helping our clients’ sales forces accelerate profitable growth in today’s dynamic market,” said David Bauders, CEO of SPA. “In Jigsaw Systems, we discovered a partner that is equally as passionate about data and pricing analytics. Joining forces allows us to accelerate investments in our platforms and build new analytical and training solutions that will enable our clients and us to evolve and meet the unique demands of the modern, dynamic enterprise market.”

Mark McGready, Founder and CEO of Jigsaw Systems, also commented, “SPA’s acquisition of Jigsaw provides a major growth opportunity for both our businesses through an extended service offering for our clients. A shared philosophy behind the critical role of pricing (and many other diverse and complementary) analytics was the main driver that brought Jigsaw and SPA together,” said Jigsaw Systems CEO Mark McGready. “Since we know each other so well, we expect the acquisition to be a success. I’m pleased that both companies can now begin painting an even bigger picture.”

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Jigsaw, founded in 2008, provides software that solves the unique challenges associated with Special Pricing Agreement (SPA) Contract Management, Inventory Optimization, and Pricing Strategy. Jigsaw’s proprietary software allows manufacturers and distributors to work closely together by aligning needs for data process management, improved systems and processes to remove confusion, reduce administration, and increase the effectiveness of the distribution channel.

SPA, Inc, founded in 1993, helps companies improve profit margins by using analytics to drive better seller decisions focused on pricing, prospecting, and account management while introducing workflow tools to improve critical business areas such as contract management. SPA also provides sales training focused on core skills essential to profitability and competing in the modern marketplace. This video-centric training spanning negotiation tactics, reading and reaching various personality types, financial acumen, and building meaningful relationships enables employees to deliver more value to clients in every interaction and profit to the bottom line. Epicor’s strategic partner since 2008, SPA has helped over 600 businesses boost profitability & competitive advantage.

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StubHub Releases Third Annual NBA Preview: International Sales Grow and Los Angeles Teams Dominate as Super Star Duos Spark Demand

International sales increase, Los Angeles Lakers rank #1 for the third year in a row; New Orleans Pelicans enter Top 10 list with Zion

StubHub, the world’s largest event marketplace, released its third-annual NBA Preview, analyzing data and providing insights on the top teams, most in-demand games and international ticket trends heading into the season.

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Highlights include:

  • International ticket sales continue to climb
  • Los Angeles dominates, Lakers and Clippers lead Top 10 Teams at #1 and #2, respectively
  • Superstar duos have major effect on teams’ ticket demand
  • New Orleans Pelicans enter Top 10 for the first time
  • Lakers-Clippers home opener is top-selling matchup of the season

INTERNATIONAL DEMAND

Taking NBA games to India for the first time, the league is continuing to see an expanded international profile and fandom. Domestic sales driven by international buyers has grown 34% since last year. New YorkCalifornia and Florida have the largest rate of international buyers, featuring seven of the top teams.

L.A. CONTINUES TO DOMINATE

The Los Angeles Lakers are the most in-demand team for the third straight season, outselling the #2 Los Angeles Clippers by 32%. The Clippers are the #1 trending team this year, indicating the largest increase in ticket sales of any team this season at nine times the sales of 2018. The two teams are also topping the list of top games with two of their matchups and the Lakers-Clippers home opener earning the top-selling game of the season and considerably outselling last year’s #1 game.

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StubHub’s 2019 Top 10 In-Demand NBA Teams*

  1. Los Angeles Lakers
  2. Los Angeles Clippers
  3. Philadelphia 76ers
  4. New York Knicks
  5. Brooklyn Nets
  6. Golden State Warriors
  7. Boston Celtics
  8. Toronto Raptors
  9. New Orleans Pelicans
  10. Miami Heat

*Ranking based on StubHub ticket sales as of 10/8/2019 for the 2019 NBA season

SUPERSTAR DUOS BRING THE HEAT

The season brings a variety of new superstar duos, from LeBron James and Anthony Davis to Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. The Clippers have seen sales increase 15x for season opener tickets, while the #2 trending Pelicans – boasting the second biggest sales growth since last season – have seen a 9x increase in sales with Zion Williamson and Lonzo Ball, with many more demand trends seeing an upward climb from the addition of these players.

“The biggest story of this year’s NBA offseason was undoubtedly the rise of the star player duos and StubHub has seen this in sales with a significant uptick from those teams as fans ramp up to see the debut of these incredible athletes,” said Akshay Khanna, GM of the NBA for StubHub. “The Clippers ticket sales were a staggering 800 percent higher this year than last, showing the power of celebrity in the NBA.”

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Box and Splunk Partner to Offer Enterprises with Automated Threat Detection and Response

Enterprises are moving the majority of their operations to the Cloud nowadays. A lot of data is transferred to and fro for easier collaboration and accessibility.  But the ease of access brings a large number of security risks too.

“As organization move sensitive content to the cloud, the need to protect against data leakage from negligent user behavior and malicious insider threats is greater than ever,” quoted Jeetu Patel, Chief Product Officer at Box.

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In order to keep data leakages at bay, detect probable access misuse, and identify potential threats, Box has already been offering Box Shield for long. Box Shield comes with a superior level of content security controls and intelligent threat detection capabilities. The company recently announced in its BoxWorks user conference in San Francisco that it has planned a new integration between Box Shield and Splunk. The combination of Splunk’s leading data and analytics competence with Box Shield is just what the doctor ordered! This will help the joint customers of Box and Splunk to tone down risks, decrease threat response times, and perk up compliance.

Tim Tully, SVP and CTO at Splunk told that some of the major challenges organizations come across nowadays are the growing number of security solutions and the volume of attacks across an expanding surface area. “With the intended Splunk for Box Shield integration, security teams should be able to enjoy the benefits of Splunk’s Cloud-based monitoring and the ability to investigate several security incidents such as data exfiltration, insider threats and anomalous behavior. To defend against increasingly sophisticated risks, organizations need a best-in-class security stack that works well together,” Tim added.

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To be made available very soon, the integrated platform will help enterprises monitor Box Shield alerts more efficiently, achieve better visibility into content access patterns, and restructure response to content access glitches.

A Complete Set of Improvements on the Way

Box also announced a number of other significant improvements to its platform, integrations with Microsoft, IBM, and Adobe being the highlights. It has expanded capabilities for data protection, governance, and compliance in the enterprise in collaboration with IBM and has announced new integrations into Microsoft Teams. Additionally, Box has announced to deeply integrate a full-featured Acrobat web experience in its platform. This will enable the users to access, edit, sign, or share PDF documents in Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader right from Box, and save the final file at the original destination in Box. Seamless access will allow users to collaborate and share without having to switch applications.

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Tampa-based Tech Company CoLabs Raises $6.2 Million for New AI Software Product IntelAgree

Attracts Stand-Out Clients, Talent and Investors in Less Than a Year

CoLabs raised $6.2 million in investor funding for IntelAgree, a contract lifecycle management (CLM) software tool that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to optimize and simplify business processes.

“IntelAgree has seen explosive growth since we launched in March of this year,” said David Hull, CoLabs Founder and CEO. “We plan to use this capital to invest in sales and marketing, implementation services, and integrations with other systems.”

Prior to IntelAgree hitting the market in March of 2019, the CoLabs team surpassed their fundraising goal with $4 million in seed capital raised. Since then, they’ve drawn significant attention from prospective investors, talent and clients.

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IntelAgree has attracted many clients since its inception, including the three major professional sports teams in its hometown of Tampa— the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tampa Bay Lightning and Tampa Bay Rays.

Two high-level SaaS executives recently joined the board of advisors at CoLabs: Otto Berkes and Justin Teague. Berkes, based in New York City, is one of the four founders of the Xbox. Among a long list of other accomplishments, he spent 18 years at Microsoft as one of the earliest pioneers of mobile computing and touch-based devices. He then joined HBO to lead the development of its highly successful HBO GO video streaming platform, and subsequently served as CTO for CA Technologies.

Teague, based in Boston, is the CEO of SmartBear Software. SmartBear empowers developers, testers, and operations engineers at over 20,000 of the world’s most innovative organizations including Adobe, JetBlue, MasterCard, and Microsoft. Teague has spent the last 20 years in high-growth software environments driving revenues and operating margin improvements for businesses ranging in size from $10 million to $600 million in revenue.

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During the summer of 2019, CoLabs partnered with Carnegie Mellon University, the number-one university for computer science, according to US News and World Report, to add three summer interns to the IntelAgree development team.

The three founders of CoLabs— David HullJohn Wagner and Marc Miller— are tech entrepreneurs with proven track records of business growth. Hull was previously a founder of technology staffing leader Veredus, which grew to $100M in annual revenue by the time the company was acquired by Hays in 2014. Wagner is a founder of custom software development leader AgileThought, a 12-time member of the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing US Private Companies which recently sold to AN Global, a leader in next-generation digital services. Wagner and Miller were the co-founders of eStaff365, the first cloud-based employee onboarding platform that launched in 2013 and was acquired by Boston-based Erecruit 20 months later.

“We are energized to continue pushing the limits of what’s possible through artificial intelligence and machine learning,” said Hull. “Our vision is to continue this growth trajectory by offering game-changing solutions and innovations for businesses to improve processes, reduce risk and increase profit.”

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Infogroup Names Seasoned Harte Hanks and Epsilon Executives as EVP, Enterprise Sales, and SVP of Technology, Yes Marketing

Key Hires Bring Deep Expertise in Enterprise Sales and Integrating Best-Of-Breed Software Solutions Within a Partner Model

Infogroup, a leading provider of data and data-driven marketing solutions, announced two important executive appointments: Brad Wamsley as Executive Vice President, Enterprise Sales; and Dan DeZutter as Senior Vice President of Technology, Yes Marketing. These strategic appointments emphasize Infogroup’s ongoing commitment to expanding its enterprise sales efforts and continually improving its offerings through industry-leading technology integrations.

“Both Brad and Dan are proven leaders when it comes to creating and leading highly effective teams, and we’re thrilled to be bringing their skills, reputation, and expertise into the Infogroup fold,” said Mike Iaccarino, chairman and CEO of Infogroup.

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In his new role, Wamsley, who previously spent more than 25 years leading vital growth initiatives at global marketing services firm Harte Hanks, will play a key role in strengthening Infogroup’s presence in existing verticals, expanding the company’s client base, and strengthening the company’s channel relationships.

Most recently, Wamsley served as Vice President of New Business and Vice President of Growth Markets at Harte Hanks. As their VP of Growth Markets, Wamsley built and led a 75+ person team responsible for approximately 160 Enterprise accounts and $175 million in annual revenues, across all of the firm’s products and services.

“Infogroup is a leading, well-established brand with an incredible reputation and an already-enviable client list,” Wamsley said. “At the same time, there’s still some amazing greenfield space out there that represents a huge growth opportunity for Infogroup, among large Enterprises in particular. I’m excited to roll up my sleeves and go after those opportunities, with a respected and seasoned team by my side.”

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DeZutter previously served as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Architecture and Innovation at Epsilon, where he led the Solution Architecture and Innovation team for Epsilon’s Technology Practice. In his new role, DeZutter will lead ongoing technology integration efforts and explore new opportunities to further enhance the company’s technology stack for even greater efficiency and client results.

During his 15 years at Epsilon, DeZutter helped establish the future technology vision for their world-class CRM and direct marketing network. After departing Epsilon in 2018, DeZutter served as Director of Enterprise Data Management of Discover Financial Services.

“My new role with Yes Marketing aligns perfectly with my passion for using data and technology to deliver business results,” DeZutter said. “By combining the vast data resources of Infogroup with Yes Marketing’s technology and agency capabilities, we’re able to drive amazing results for our clients, and I’m excited to be a part of that.”

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NexJ Systems Advances CRM for Wealth Management

Delivers next generation wealth management functionality with flexible deployment options on private or hybrid cloud or on-premise

NexJ Systems Inc., delivering intelligent customer management software to the financial services industry, announced the general availability of its next generation CRM, purpose built for wealth management firms that can be deployed either on a private cloud, hybrid cloud or on-premise.

NexJ has long been recognized as best-in-class by industry analyst firms including Aite (Top CRM Vendor for wealth management), and Celent (Best CRM for Wealth Management). Building on that reputation, NexJ has further evolved its CRM for Wealth Management product with built-in vertical market functionality leveraging the experience and expertise gained in delivering solutions to notable financial services firms including Wells Fargo, UBS, and RBC.

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NexJ CRM for Wealth Management is purpose built to provide financial advisors the ability to save time, optimize customer value, and enhance client engagement. The product offers rep code security to support the way wealth management firms govern data, wealth specific client attributes such as market segment, domicile and investor qualification, and enables transparent client management across teams and the broader organization. The vertical specific capabilities ensure that a firm can extract value quickly through not having to make changes to its business to meet the limitation of horizontal CRM.

In addition, NexJ Nudge-AI digital assistants can seamlessly integrate with the CRM, delivering Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing to assist advisors increase customer loyalty, enhance the sales and service model and help automate compliance requirements.

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A recent Forrester report titled ‘CRM Goes Vertical In The Age Of The Customer Landscape’ highlighted the need for differentiated customer experiences in order to “align people, processes, and technology to enable organizations to better serve and support customers during their engagement journey.”Deeply vertical CRM offers support for industry processes that can drive higher adoption rates, and deep domain functionality that includes compliance with industry standards and regulations.

“Wealth management firms are facing significant challenges including competition from robo-advisors and new market entrants, a more informed customer, inefficient processes due to dated technology and the commoditization of financial products,” said Matthew Bogart, Vice President of Marketing at NexJ Systems. “Customers have always trusted NexJ to place advisors at the center of their solutions. This next generation product continues to enhance the experience of the advisor helping them to better understand and engage the clients that make up their book of business.”

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Acadian Appoints Kelly Young as Chief Marketing Officer

Acadian Asset Management LLC, a leader in active global quantitative investing with $93 billion assets under management as of August 31, 2019, announced the appointment of Kelly Young to the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). As part of the newly created CMO role, Young will lead the Global Client Group, overseeing all business development, client, and consultant relations teams across North AmericaEuropeAsia and Australia. In addition to the CMO role, Young will join Acadian’s Executive Management Team, taking an active role in business and leadership decisions. She will continue to serve on the Executive Committee.

As part of this strategic Client Group structure, Young will be responsible for enhanced coordination among affiliated global offices in order to support international growth and continue building innovative partnerships and delivering exceptional client service. Young will now be based at Acadian’s Boston headquarters.

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“We are thrilled to announce Kelly’s appointment to CMO,” said Ross Dowd, co-Chief Executive Officer at Acadian. “This role is not only a reflection of Acadian’s growing international footprint, but also underpins our dedication to effectively and strategically expanding our global capabilities. Kelly’s experience in managing international teams provides her a keen sense of the evolving and unique needs of global clients. I’m confident that under her leadership, Acadian’s Global Client Group will meet and exceed the expectations of our growing client base.”

To more adeptly address this expansion, the Global Client Group has also appointed dedicated regional heads for Europe and AsiaAndrew Hair, previously CEO of Acadian Australia, will assume the role of Head of Asia PacificIan Shea, former director of Middle East Sales, will assume the role of Senior Vice President, Director, EMEA.

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“I am excited to transition into the CMO role to help build upon the firm’s commitment to superior global client service,” said Young. “We have already built an extremely strong team globally, and with a new strategic structure in place that emphasizes cohesion while considering the distinct needs and nuances of clients in different global markets, we will not only be able to build on our success but further emphasize the value we place on partnership with our clients spanning the globe.”

Young joined the London-based Acadian Client team in 2009 as a relationship manager providing marketing and client service to clients and prospects in the region. In 2012, Young became Managing Director of Acadian UK, and in 2017 was made Director, International Client Group, leading all non-U.S. offices. Kelly joined the Executive Committee in 2018.

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Denise Karkos Joins SiriusXM as Chief Marketing Officer

Award-Winning Executive Will Lead Brand and Digital Marketing Efforts for Both Siriusxm and Pandora Brands

SiriusXM announced that distinguished marketing executive Denise Karkos has joined the company as its new Chief Marketing Officer. Karkos will be responsible for brand and digital marketing of both the SiriusXM and Pandora brands, helping support and drive the growth of SiriusXM subscribers and Pandora listeners. She will report to Jennifer Witz, SiriusXM’s President, Sales, Marketing and Operations.

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Karkos joins SiriusXM from TD Ameritrade, where she was Chief Marketing Officer overseeing brand, advertising, social media, content marketing, corporate communications, marketing analytics, tech and operations. She was responsible for redefining the spirit of the brand to drive significant growth and recently led the marketing efforts of the Scottrade acquisition.

Karkos was named 2019 CMO of the Year by Ad Age and was honored with a Brand Genius Award by Adweek. Prior to her 13 years at TD Ameritrade and TD Bank, she held a number of roles with agencies including Digitas and Hill Holiday where she ran media planning and buying.

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“Denise is exceptionally innovative and forward-thinking and we are very pleased and excited that she will be leading our marketing efforts as we continue to grow the SiriusXM and Pandora brands,” said Jennifer Witz. “She and her team will execute a cohesive marketing strategy to drive brand relevance and consideration through to customer conversion, with a deep focus on digital, social and mobile marketing.”

“I’m excited to join these two great brands and help contribute to their continued success,” said Karkos. “The audio entertainment category has so much momentum, and even more potential. It’s a privilege to join the leaders in this space.”

Karkos earned a BBA in Marketing from the University of Notre Dame, where she also was captain of the Fighting Irish soccer team. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Ad Council.

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