Board of Advisors

Amanda directed and advanced marketing education by creating the first accredited influencer marketing curriculum (launched at UCLA and University of Texas where she currently teaches). Amanda is now teaching at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business.

Her work will be the newest program in the highly regarded Emeritus MBA-level and executive certificate programs in collaboration with top universities from across the globe.

Russell advises some of the top companies in the world on influencer marketing including Lamborghini, Cedars Sinai and Lionsgate and speaks across the globe on influence and the future of marketing.

Her latest book, The Influencer Code became the official resource to influencer marketing for college programs worldwide.

Her international experience is vast and she has taught at some of the top schools in the world, including Harvard (ongoing visiting lecturer), Wharton School of Business, The University of Stockholm Business School, Stanford, The University of Cologne in Germany, New York University, HEC in Paris, and the University of Southern California,

She also serves as board member and advisory council to several global organizations including Lamborghini, The Andy Roddick Foundation, and The University of Richmond Business School.

In 2021 she launched the podcast ‘School of Influence,’ with the widely celebrated marketing scholar Neal Schaeffer.

Chitra’s executive experience includes roles as Chief Brand and Communications Officer for Microsoft Canada, Director of Marketing at TELUS Corporation, and Director of Operations at Open Text. During her time at Microsoft, Chitra developed the leadership team branding for the external market, including digital presences, thought leadership, and creating compelling brand personas.

She has helped some of North Americas’ top CEO’s become industry thought leaders by developing their voices and amplifying their innovative ideas. Projects she guided at Microsoft and TELUS have been awarded IABC Gold Quill Awards, Canadian Public Relations Society Awards of Excellence, the Corporate IT Hero award by the Information Technology Association of Canada and the Business for the Arts Awards.

Chitra is at the forefront of an important new movement in the workplace: intrapreneurship. Intrapreneurs are the people within an organization who possess an entrepreneurial spirit and drive innovation, creative thinking, and new ideas. She is the author of “The Green House Approach, How to Cultivate Deliberate Innovation in Organizations,” and her writing has also been featured in the Globe and Mail and the Huffington Post. She teaches at Humber and Sheridan College and is a sought-after keynote speaker on the topic of how to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship within organizations and how to stay on the cutting edge of market trends, technology, and consumer behaviour.

Chitra also has been named as a “bridge builder” for women in tech by the A-list; a yearly publication that features 50 prominent Indo-Canadians who through various career and community efforts have helped foster relations between Canada and India.

He has helped many companies and their leaders use a combination of social media, creative assets and employee advocacy to drive business results. He was worked with a vast array of clients including IBM, American Express, Netflix, Spotify, Black Rock, UPS, History, A&E, WWE and Coca-Cola.

A creator himself, Geoffrey is host of the weekly top 100 ranked management podcast Disruptive FM, creator and Executive Producer for web video series The Download, creator and producer of the Creative Studies newsletter on LinkedIn and contributor to Branding Strategy Insider. He is producer of the podcast Everything Is Better with Creators for Whalar and is launching a new podcast focusing on humans and technology with Google’s Abigail Posner titled Human Code. He is highly active on LinkedIn with over 200,000 followers and monthly shows about business culture.

Geoffrey is at the forefront of the creator economy and its connection to thought leadership and business impact. He developed the annual Microsoft Consumer Trends Report that launched in 2018. He is a 2013 Cannes Lions Gold Award winner for his work on “The World’s Smallest Film” where he led the social media strategy and is a candidate for the 2022 Cannes Lions B2B Creative Award. The first year of the category.

Geoffrey is very active on the global marketing conference circuit and has been quoted in various media outlets including The Los Angeles Times, WABC-AM, Cheddar TV, Forbes, Business Insider, AdWeek and Advertising Age.

Anastassia has served as an independent board member and/or advisor to such international companies as Dun & Bradstreet (US), easyJet PLC (UK), FrightOne (Russia), Diligent (US), Aircision (NL), Evolution Partners, TechCity (Germany), AgreeYa Mobility, Kaspersky Labs, Earlybird Ventures, Intel Communication, StarAlliance Technology, and Censhare AG (Germany), where she was Chairwoman of the Board.

Anastassia is also a former executive with Qualcomm Inc., Deutsche Telekom AG, Daimler AG, Munich Re, and McKinsey. She is a technology strategist, founder, and author focused on Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Corporate Governance. Experienced in CEO succession, taking a business private, and turning-around a legacy tech company. As a technology strategist possessing unique knowledge of the high-tech ecosystem, Anastassia is able to structure partnership agreements with global technology companies offering mutual advantage.

Anastassia is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the XU Exponential University for Applied Sciences Potsdam and an author. She is leading author of  The Artificial Intelligence Imperative: A Practical Roadmap for Business (Praeger 2018), co-author of “The Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines” (American Bar Association, 2019), “China im Blickpunkt des 21. Jahrhunderts”, edited by Tobias Loitsch, Springer Gabler, 2019), and Technology Columnist for German Handelsblatt and Wirtschaftswoche.

She is fluent in English, French, German, Russian, Serb & Croatian languages and conversational Italian, and is a much sought-after speaker in the global leadership arena.

In 2014, Emily also founded the Women in Tech Campaign for All Women in Tech to raise awareness of the need for inclusion in technology. And she continues to oversee Women in Tech Campaign boasting over 100 women members from eight different countries. Emily designs and manages all online and offline events, including #TechisMore 100% digital events; targeted and acquired sponsorships from AOL, Mapbox, Nokia, and Cisco; and Inclusion Events, an in-person event series currently in New York City, Chicago and Washington, DC, that gives high-school students the training and skills to lead a conversation around diversity in tech.

In her role at AT&T, Suzy provides technology and business consultation to AT&T’s top-tier clients, specifically strategic planning and advisory services in exploring the ‘art of the possible’! She leads transformative efforts in top Fortune companies faced with a myriad of multiple technology challenges such as business mobilization, regulatory compliance, and the demand to create business value out of the social media force field.

She has worked directly for CEO’s in notable Fortune firms such as Viacom, Spelling Entertainment, UBS, and LFM – Atlanta Falcons Radio. She has led global teams for Showtime, MTV Networks, Nickelodeon, Viacom Radio, Big Ticket Television, Virgin Interactive, CBS and Paramount Pictures. Ci Ci has also held the elected position of President, Women in Film, Los Angeles, with 38 Chapters globally; and chaired strategic committees for the The Executive Leadership Council, based in Washington, DC. She has also penned her strategic vision of how to reap the bottom-line benefits of an inclusive workforce in, “The Handbook for CEO’s: Secrets to Diversity Success #P3 – People, Performance and Profits.

Formerly as Head of Content Business and Operations for Bloomberg Media, Natasha’s responsibilities included transforming content and business operations whilst working with senior leadership to build a new B2B consultancy and marketing services group. 

Additional interests include a fascination with the connections between professional achievement and endurance sports, as well as a passion for fueling in women’s careers via self-advocacy. Natasha is a sought after conference speaker and podcast host.

Named #11 on Forbes’ list of Top CMO’s based on social influence, Lisa is also well-known in the leadership blogging space for her Visionary Leadership Blog, and her blog posts are syndicated at Lead Digital, Business to Consumer, and Alltop. She is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, The Globe and Mail, The Financial Times, to name a few. Her eBook, “The Introvert’s Guide to Success in Business and Leadership,” became an Amazon “Hot New Release” on Cyber Monday, 2011, outselling Richard Branson’s newest book for a time. The book inspired her Harvard Business Review blog post, “An Introvert’s Guide to Networking.”

Lisa excels at creating collaborative training initiatives in the areas of social media, social strategy, content development, and marketing to help companies and C-level executives authentically increase their corporate value and personal brand and implement Herculean initiatives.