Bozoma Saint John | Founding Member, Marketing Hall of Fame Inductee, Former CMO, Entrepreneur & Author

Bozoma Saint John is a Hall of Fame Inducted Marketing Executive, Author, and Entrepreneur who is worthy of the Harvard Business School case study written about her career, titled “Leading with Authenticity and Urgency.” 

Her brilliant career has spanned various industries and includes roles as the Global CMO of Netflix, CMO of Endeavor, CBO of Uber, Head of Marketing of Apple Music & iTunes and Head of Music and Entertainment Marketing at PepsiCo. 

Bozoma’s work has been lauded and awarded with notable recognition including (but not limited to) induction into the American Advertising Federation Hall of Achievement, induction into Billboard’s Women in Music Hall of Fame, induction into the Marketing Hall of Fame; and has been included in Fast Company’s Most Creative People, The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Power 100 list and crowned as The World’s Most Influential CMO by Forbes. Her memoir, The Urgent Life was published February 21st, 2023, while her successful online tutorials “The Badass Workshop” teach others to be their greatest selves. Bozoma will also be the newest cast member of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. 

But by far her greatest achievement is in raising her 15 year old daughter, Lael.

Bruce S. Gordon is the former President and CEO of the NAACP. He was appointed in August 2005 and served for 19 months. Prior to that, Gordon had a 35 year career in telecommunications. His final role was President of the Retail Markets Group, the $23B Verizon Communications’ consumer and small business unit.

In 2007, The American Advertising Federation inducted Gordon into the Advertising Hall of Fame, the industry’s most prestigious honor. In 2006, Ebony Magazine named him one its “100 Most Influential Black Americans and Organization Leaders”. In 2002 he was ranked #6 on Fortune Magazine’s list of the “50 Most Powerful Black Executives”. Black Enterprise Magazine named him “1998 Executive of the Year”.

Gordon is the former Chairman of the Board of ADT Corporation. He previously served on the boards of Northrop Grumman, CBS Corporation, Tyco International, Southern Company, Office Depot, Best Foods, Infinity Broadcasting, and Bartech Group.

In the Not-for-Profit arena, Gordon currently chairs the board of the Newport Festival Foundation and serves on the board of the Gilder Lehrman Institute. He was a founding board member of the Black Economic Alliance and is now an Advisory Board member. He previously served on the boards of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, U.S. Fund for UNICEF, The Barnes Foundation, Lincoln Center, and Gettysburg College.

Born in Camden, New Jersey, Gordon received a B.A. from Gettysburg College, a M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, and an honorary doctorate from Gettysburg College.