Chris Hummel is a high energy, results-driven executive with an exceptional record of creating customer value, building innovative brands, driving significant revenue growth and rapidly increasing enterprise value. As a globally-recognized thought leader with deep commercial experience, he articulates a vision and distills the strategy into a clear roadmap that enables and inspires peak performance. Key strengths include:
Commercial Success: Proven ignitor of growth by aggressively pursuing breakthrough strategies, creating high performance customer-centric organizations and evolving them from traditional purchasing to solution-driven & SAAS models.
General Management: Former Executive Committee member for public and private companies who managed P&Ls for $3M to $300M business units and has board exposure, M&A, strategy, restructuring and fundraising experience.
Branding Excellence: Astute builder of innovative brands and bold leader of compelling customer experiences that nurture relationships and shape interest, investment and loyalty. Master of rebranding companies with unique awareness platforms and holistic campaigns.
Pipeline Growth: Pioneer in leveraging sales and marketing to generate and accelerate sales opportunities. Specialty in data-driven, immersive digital programs that create sustainable moments of engagement at each phase of the buyer’s journey.
Innovation: A problem solver who drives business to the next level. Big idea thinker who delights in details to create evolutionary and disruptive improvements.
Global Leadership: Bi-lingual leader who attracts great talent, inspires loyalty and energizes globally dispersed organization. Committed partner to the whole c-suite who nurtures organizational relationships and influences across boundaries.
Professional Profile: Award-winning corporate spokesperson who was named one of FierceCMO’s “15 B2B CMOs to Watch” in 2013 and profiled in The CMO Manifesto (Ellett, 2012).