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Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR
Featured Guests:
Nigel Vaz
CEO
Publicis Sapient
Nigel is the CEO of Publicis Sapient, the digital business transformation company, focused on helping companies survive and thrive in a world that is increasingly digital. With expertise spanning strategy, product, experience, engineering and data, Publicis Sapient helps businesses sustain relevance by adapting to change and capturing value through digital.
In more than 20 years with the company, Nigel has acted as a strategic advisor on complex transformation initiatives with clients across geographies and a range of industries including financial services, automotive, retail, consumer products, and telecommunications, media & technology (TMT).
Named by Consulting Magazine as a Top 25 Global Leader, Vaz advises some of the world’s largest businesses on their transformation initiatives. Publicis Sapient clients include Carrefour, Goldman Sachs, Marriott, McDonald’s, Nationwide, Nissan and Unilever. Prior to Sapient, he was a successful entrepreneur – co-founding a public company with interests in internet consulting and connectivity solutions.
In addition, Nigel is a member of the Executive Committee of Publicis Groupe and serves as the Global Lead of Digital Business Transformation. He is President of the IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising), a board director of The Marketing Society and an inductee of the BIMA Digital Hall of Fame.
He is a regular commentator in broadcast and print media including the BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal, and author of numerous articles on business transformation, technology, brand experience and culture. Nigel authored the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post bestseller Digital Business Transformation – How Established Companies Sustain Competitive Advantage from Now to Next, based on years of partnering with clients to harness the power of digital.
Follow him on Twitter: @vaznigel
Michelle Huff
CMO
UserTesting
Michelle Huff brings over 20 years of experience leading marketing and go-to-market strategies at high tech companies, such as Act-On Software, Salesforce, and Oracle. Gaining insights directly from customers and prospects has always been essential in her past roles—from leading product marketing and management teams to launching websites and marketing campaigns. At UserTesting, she’s responsible for driving our go-to-market strategy, building the UserTesting brand, generating demand, and strengthening customer engagement and advocacy.
Follow her on Twitter: @michelle_huff
Larry Dignan
Editor in Chief
ZDNet
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.
Follow him on Twitter: @ldignan