The Committee
Convened by people
marketing leaders trust
The CMO Executive Forum is shaped by a small committee of senior marketing operators and founders. They set the tone, open the room, and decide who belongs.
Off the record. By invitation. A private forum for senior marketing leaders.
The CMO Executive Forum is shaped by a small committee of senior marketing operators and founders. They set the tone, open the room, and decide who belongs.
Founder of Open Future Forum and Partner at IA Seed Ventures. Helped scale Turing.com to a $4B valuation as a C-level executive, and has written on AI and technology for Forbes, Inc, Time, and The Guardian. Author of Online Marketing: A User's Manual (Wiley).
Head of Global Workspace AI Partner Marketing at Google Cloud, where she leads Google AI for Work globally and drives commercial growth for a $3B+ product line — running joint go-to-market with 300+ partners that has sourced $1.6B+ in pipeline and 400,000+ Workspace seats. Previously Director of Marketing at Anaconda, Director of Global Digital Marketing and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Rackspace, and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.
VP of Marketing at ThinkingAI (Series C, Sequoia-backed), bringing 15 years of B2B and B2C growth experience. Previously led growth marketing at Shipt, a Target company, and held senior marketing roles at Albertsons. Co-founded and exited a venture-backed facial recognition startup.
Chief Product Officer at AgentWeb, co-building the first end-to-end automated AI CMO for digital marketing. Also founder of Story with AI, an AI creative platform that has helped 600+ kids become published authors. Previously a Senior Data Science Manager at LinkedIn and held analytics roles at Meta and Google, leading ML-driven growth and marketing measurement.
The CMO Executive Forum gathers chief marketing officers and senior marketing leaders of high-growth companies. It is part of Open Future Forum, and it runs on the same principle: everyone in the room is a giver.
There is no pitch, no agenda, no recording. The conversations are the ones marketing leaders cannot have anywhere else, with peers who understand the seat.
The private dinner is the center of the forum. Around it, members gather in a handful of settings built for the way marketing leaders actually connect.
Sharp, off-the-record sessions on the questions marketing leaders are working through right now.
Smaller, relaxed gatherings where the conversation runs long and the introductions stick.
A full day with a small group of peers, the kind of time that builds real trust.
A signature Open Future Forum setting on the bay, where the room opens up away from the office.
Private boxes at Giants games, a relaxed room for marketing leaders and their guests.
Practical working sessions on how AI is changing marketing, demand, and brand, built for the CMO seat.
Gatherings are announced through Open Future Forum. Register, get reminders, and find the next room on the Forum Events page.
Upcoming CMO Executive Forum dinners and gatherings are listed with all Open Future Forum events.
View Forum EventsThe forum is built for marketing leaders who make the room better. The question is simple: does this person give more than they take?
Members are identified by how they show up, long before any invitation is extended. If the answer is yes, a personal note follows.
Like every Open Future Forum room, the CMO Executive Forum runs on Adam Grant's Give and Take: the most generous people in the room create the most value over time.
Members offer their honest read of the channels, the budget, the board, without holding back for advantage.
The most valued act in the room is a warm introduction made without being asked.
This is not a quid pro quo network. The room holds the debt and pays it forward.
If you think you belong in the CMO Executive Forum, or know a marketing leader who does, we'd like to hear from you. Membership is by invitation or referral, reviewed personally by Murray Newlands.
