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Chris serves CMO & Marketing Leadership Professionals as well as agency leaders. He is a leading expert on modern brand strategy, digital-era advertising, and the evolving agency landscape.
Chris has more than 17 years of experience in management consulting and advertising. He helps marketers navigate emerging media and technology, transform their advertising strategy, and adapt their organizations for the digital age. Clients such as Facebook, L'Oreal, Kraft Foods, HP, and IBM have turned to Chris for his thought leadership. Additionally, he has worked across a broad spectrum of agencies — including holding companies such as Omnicom and WPP, network agencies such as JWT and DDB, and digital agencies such as Digitas, Rosetta, VML, and Blast Radius — to improve their strategic capabilities, competitive positioning, and new business strategies.
Prior to Forrester, Chris worked in advertising for more than eight years, developing brand strategies and discovering breakthrough consumer insights for clients such as Mars, Michelin, Novartis, and Wachovia. Chris started his career as a management consultant for Accenture, where he developed customer experience and marketing technology strategies for clients such as AT&T and Bell South.
Chris is a member of The Wharton School's Future of Advertising project. He is also a regular contributor to industry publications and events, including Advertising Age CMO Strategy and the ANA.
Chris received an M.B.A. from Duke University and a B.A. in English from Bucknell University.
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How Research Touchpoints Affect Consumer Spending
Consumers connect with brands throughout the customer life cycle — they discover, explore, buy, and engage using a multitude of touchpoints. In the explore phase, consumers use a variety of...

Consumers Define Which Aspects Of The Brand Experience Are Critical
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I'd love to see more of these articles that show comparative data. All too often we get a EU or UK version that pops up 3-4 months later. Surely it could easily be wrapped up into one article.
I've been challenged with developing new product creation ideas. Is there a model to follow or specific research resources that Forrester recommends?
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Marketers, does the idea of a digital-only 'super' agency network entice you at all?
Organization: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook
Twenty-first century brands are grappling to maintain their traditional sources of competitive advantage in the age of the customer — a world in which the companies that take an obsessive...