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For the past 12 years, Ricardo has held roles of increasing responsibility in marketing at Anheuser-Busch Inbev in Belgium, Brazil and since 2012 in the US.
In his time in the US market, Ricardo's leadership on Stella Artois accelerated its growth trajectory and Budweiser gained new momentum on the back of memorable campaigns that won cultural moments: the FIFA World Cup 2014, the Cubs World Series win or most recently with SuperBowl 52.
Ricardo studied Marketing Communications at ISNP followed by a Business Administration post graduation at ISG. Over the years he completed multiple executive programs at NYU Stern, Harvard Business School and Wharton.
Ricardo resides in New York City.
Diego Scotti is executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Verizon. He is responsible for linking the innovations of the company’s product team to the customer-focused operations of the business units to build the Verizon global brand, create consumer awareness and advocacy and drive customer loyalty for the brand through all channels.
In this role, Scotti oversees the global management of Verizon’s brand, including consumer insights, digital marketing, creative development and agency management, marketing effectiveness, social responsibility, sponsorships and corporate communications. Given the demonstrated power of big data and digital marketing, Scotti also oversees the leveraging of Verizon’s current capabilities to help build its global brand.
At the helm of one of the country’s largest advertisers, Scotti has taken bold action to execute on Verizon’s singular purpose — to deliver the promise of the digital world across creative development, advertising, media strategy, and digital marketing.
Previously, he served as the Chief Marketing Officer of J. Crew. He also worked at Conde Nast where he was responsible for marketplace positioning at Vogue and oversaw 20 print and digital media brands. In a prior role, he was the head of global advertising and brand management at American Express where he created a number of iconic brand advertising and marketing campaigns, as well as played a key leadership role on major product innovations.
Scotti was recognized as one of the “Marketing Top 40 under 40”
by Advertising Age in 2007 and was one of 21 marketers named
as “Internationalists” by International Magazine in 2012. Scotti was selected by Business Insider for their 2017 “Most Influential CMO” list and was recognized by AdAge on their 2017 Power Players list for his work on driving diversity in the marketing industry.
Diego is a board member of the ANA, a member of the executive committee of the Ad Council and a trustee of Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City.
A native of Argentina, Scotti earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in advertising and marketing communications from the University of Management and Social Sciences in Buenos Aires. He currently resides in New York City with his wife and children.
MARC PRITCHARD
CBO, P&G
Diversity Leadership
Marc Pritchard is responsible for P&G’s brand building disciplines worldwide. He sets the Company’s multi-billion-dollar media, marketing and advertising strategies, and leads marketing innovations that guide communication and brand building for P&G’s portfolio of trusted, quality brands.
Marc is a veteran of P&G for more than three decades, joining the company in 1982 as a cost analyst in the Paper Division, followed by a move into marketing in 1987 on the Sure anti-perspirant/deodorant brand. He has 20+ years of progressive experience in the Health & Beauty categories which earned his appointment to president of Global Cosmetics and Personal Care in 2003. Known for his pioneering approach to product and operational innovation, Marc also served as president of Global Strategy for three years, driving sustainable growth and expanded productivity for P&G. He was appointed P&G’s chief marketing officer in 2008.
As P&G’s top brand builder, Marc believes in the power of brands to serve people with the best-performing products, while also being a force for good through ethics and responsibility, community impact, diversity and inclusion, gender equality and environmental sustainability. He continually leads P&G’s brand building reinvention and is a leading voice in the media, marketing and creative industry.
ALMA HAR'EL
DIRECTOR & FOUNDER, FREE THE BID
Free The Bid
Alma Har'el is a music video and film director, best known for her documentaries LOVETRUE and Bombay Beach, the latter of which was awarded top prize at Tribeca Film Festival in 2011, was nominated for a 2011 Independent Spirit "Truer than Fiction" award, and has been taught in Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab and Film Center as a “genre redefining work.”
Har'el is one of the top commercial directors working today, with campaigns for Airbnb, Coca-Cola, Chanel and P&G garnering millions of hits; winning accolades, including Clios and D&AD awards; and being exhibited in film festivals and galleries worldwide. Her P&G "Thank You Mom," campaign for the Winter Olympics gained her a DGA nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials.
In 2016, Har’el founded nonprofit initiative Free The Bid, a pledge which asks agencies and brands to promise to include a woman director on every triple-bid commercial project. As of its first anniversary, in September 2017, Free the Bid had 40 agencies and 10 major brands (including HP, Visa, eBay, Airbnb, Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Levi’s and Twitter) on board, with pledged agencies such as BBDO and CP+B reporting hiring increases of women directors of up to 400%.
ROBERT LIODICE
CEO, ANA
Talent Forward Alliance
Bob Liodice is chief executive officer of the ANA. He previously served as executive vice president, responsible for member relations and business development with a primary focus on strengthening relationships with ANA member companies and broadening the membership base. Bob joined the ANA as senior vice president in 1995.
Prior to the ANA, he was vice president of global marketing and sales for Grupo Televisa, a major worldwide broadcaster. His previous experience includes more than 15 years in marketing and financial management at Kraft General Foods and tenure as category marketing manager for the Jell-O and Bakers brands.
He is a member of the boards of directors of The Advertising Council, Advertising Research Foundation, Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, Advertising Educational Foundation, Digital Advertising Alliance, Trustworthy Accountability Group, and World Federation of Advertisers.
Bob holds bachelor degrees in accounting and management and an M.B.A. in finance from New York University.
LILIAHN MAJEED
Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion Groups
National Basketball Association
Liliahn Majeed is a vice president in the Diversity and Inclusion group of the National Basketball Association. She is responsible for providing best practices and leadership on inclusion to the league offices and teams, identifying minority and women suppliers for programs and events, creating coaching programs for people of color and women, and partnering with marketing, sponsorship and social responsibility league and team leaders to ensure authentic engagement with our communities. In short, we want our teammates and fans to feel they belong and matter.
Liliahn recently joined the Diversity and Inclusion group after 12 years in the Team Marketing and Business Operations (TMBO) group. TMBO is an in-house consultancy focused on helping NBA, WNBA and NBA Development League teams strengthen employee and fan engagement and grow revenues.
In her role in TMBO, Liliahn led strategy for TMBO’s arena experience, season ticket membership and premium consulting arm. She was also the liaison between the League and the Indiana Pacers and Washington Wizards.
Prior to the NBA Liliahn was a sales leader for Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts and an operations manager in the Resorts Division of Walt Disney World.
Liliahn is the Board Chair for Genesys Works NYC. She served on the Executive Committee for the United Way of New York City Women’s Leadership Council and gives her time to the NYC Rescue Mission, Student Leadership Network and Covenant House.
Liliahn earned her BBA in Hospitality Management from Howard University and her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
MADONNA BADGER
Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder
Badger & Winters
Dubbed the Lioness Who Roared, 30-year advertising veteran and founder of #WomenNotObjects, Madonna Badger remains Chief Creative Officer leading the brand, design, and advertising driving Badger & Winters’ success. In 2016, after announcing that she and her agency would no longer create imagery that objectifies women, the agency won Advertising Age Northeast Small Agency of the Year and the Gold award for best Digital Campaign for #WeSeeEqual, P&G's global platform to take on unconscious bias. #WomenNotObjects was awarded the first-ever United Nations award for Social Development Goal #5 for Gender Equality. One year later, Badger & Winters won the JCPenney Agency of Record business with a new brand platform that focuses on what unites Americans in this time of deep division. The agency is also AOR for Calia by Carrie Underwood, a brand they designed from the ground up for Dick’s Sporting Goods, and is proud to work with clients including P&G, MetLife, Pepsi, EA, Beam Suntory, Vera Wang, Diane Von Furstenberg, and Godiva.
Prior to founding Badger & Winters at the age of 29, Madonna began her career at Esquire and Madame Figaro in Paris, before launching the first issue of Allure. In 1990, she joined Calvin Klein and her work on the Mark Wahlberg and Kate Moss campaigns for the launch of CK One helped reinvent the company.
Madonna has been featured in Vogue and WWD, named one of Daily Variety’s “The Gotham 50,” Crain’s “Forty under Forty,” and has spoken at such events as Cannes Lions 2016, the Forbes Women’s Summit, and a Clinton Global Initiative panel on advertising and gender bias.
Kat Gordon has been called the “triple threat” of an entrepreneur, ad woman + marketing to women expert and was named one of "30 Most Creative Women in Advertising" by BusinessInsider in 2016, "Visionary of the Year" by Advertising Age in 2018, and one of “Forty Over 40” women disrupting the world in 2014. She is the visionary behind The 3% Movement. Started as a passion project to spotlight a huge business opportunity in advertising -- the lack of female creative leadership and its impact on connecting with an overwhelmingly female marketplace -- the 3% Conference has grown exponentially since its 2012 launch and has hosted events in 16 cities globally. In addition to events, 3% conducts certification and consulting inside creative companies to help them build thriving cultures.
Kat serves as a strategic advisor to The Representation Project and BRAVA Investments and is an Activator through the SheEO Ventures network. She is passionate about unlocking the contributions of women and people of color, especially as they relate to innovation.
