The Wall Street Journal Announces Speaker Lineup for WSJ CMO Council Summit 2025

From The WSJ Leadership Institute, this year’s summit will feature conversations with newsmakers across the marketing industries of entertainment, retail, fashion and more. Speakers include Actor, Producer and Co-Founder of Maximum Effort Ryan Reynolds, Makeup Artist Bobbi Brown , American Eagle CMO Craig Brommers , Delta Air Lines CMO Alicia Tillman and more. New York, NY [November 10, 2025] - The WSJ CMO Council Summit will take place November 18-19 in New York City, bringing together some of business’s most influential marketing leaders. Led by WSJ Leadership Institute President Alan Murray, this year’s summit will convene CMOs to exchange insights on today’s most pressing business priorities and the opportunities shaping the future of marketing. Summit themes include turning ad backlash into opportunity , using nostalgia to reengage consumers, storytelling in the age of AI , building brands from the ground up, and the power of reinvention and founders starting over. This year’s participants include: Craig Brommers | Chief Marketing Officer, American Eagle Bobbi Brown | Makeup Artist, Author; Founder, Bobbi Brown and Jones Road Beauty Kristen D’Arcy | Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Digital Growth, True Religion Jaclyn Johnson | Founder, Create & Cultivate; Co-Founder, Cherub Laura Jones | Chief Marketing Officer, Instacart Ryan Reynolds | Actor, Producer, Entrepreneur, Co-Founder, Maximum Effort Katie Sturino | Founder, Megababe Frank X. Shaw | Chief Communications Officer, Microsoft Alicia Tillman | Chief Marketing Officer, Delta Air Lines Faby Torres | Global Chief Marketing Officer, Gap Gwen Whiting | Founder, The Laundress; Founder, The Fill More details and program schedule can be found here . “CMOs today are dealing with an unprecedented tsunami of change. AI is fundamentally transforming the way marketing work is done. And the AI-fueled information ecosystem is supercharging disinformation and negative storylines in ways never seen before. Our goal at the WSJ CMO Summit is to help CMOs thrive amidst the chaos by learning best practices from the experts and from their peers,” said Murray. The CMO Council is chaired by Maryam Banikarim. This year’s seven co-chairs for the summit are Alicia Parker (Chief Marketing Officer, Tishman Speyer), Behnaz Ghahramani (SVP, Global Marketing, Marriott International), Craig Greiwe (Chief Growth Officer and Global President of Marketing, GoDigital Media), Fiona Carter (Chief Marketing Officer, Goldman Sachs), Jonathan Adashek (SVP, Marketing and Communications, IBM), Laura Jones (Chief Marketing Officer, Instacart), and Vanessa Broadhurst (EVP, Global Corporate Affairs, Johnson & Johnson). The CMO Council is one of several WSJ executive memberships including CEO, CCO, CFO, Technology, Board of Directors and CPO Councils that exist as part of The WSJ Leadership Institute, Dow Jones’s executive learning and leadership program that unites business leaders for peer-to-peer learning, networking, exclusive events, and more. Press members interested in attending the WSJ’s CMO Council Summit virtually should contact Anthony Zurita at anthony.zurita@dowjones.com and Vinny Steves at vinny.steves@dowjones.com . ***

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