Omar Abdelsamad, T’16
Director of Retail Growth Strategy at CVS Health
Omar is the Director of Retail Growth Strategy at CVS Health where he develops near- and long-term strategy for the CVS Pharmacy, Front Store, and Minute Clinic businesses. Recent experience is in the area of developing a national network of COVID-19 testing centers and Clinical Trials businesses. Prior roles at CVS include experience within Workforce Management within Pharmacy Operations and Product Management in Pharmacy Growth. Previous experience include strategy work at Samsung Electronics in Seoul, Amazon, and experience in diligence consulting. Omar has an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Bachelors from Harvard College.
Kusum Ailawadi
Charles Jordan 1911 TU’12 Professor of Marketing, Tuck School of Business
Professor Ailawadi’s expertise is in managing the partnership and the power balance between suppliers and their distribution channel members. She has co-authored a new book titled Getting Multi-Channel Distribution Right and she currently teaches highly acclaimed Tuck electives on that topic and on Marketing Research.
Professor Ailawadi has published extensively in the leading academic journals on channel-related topics such as the manifestation of brand equity in marketplace performance; the impact of promotions and private label brands on the performance of manufacturers and retailers; and market response to major marketing policy changes. Her articles have been honored for best contributions to marketing theory and practice, for best collaboration between academics and practitioners, for overall best papers, and for long term impact.
She has also written on these topics for practitioner audiences in publications like the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Economic Times, and Advertising Age’s CMO Forum.
Professor Ailawadi is the President-Elect of the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science and an Associate Editor for three top marketing journals—Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, and Marketing Science. She received her BSc (Honors) degree from Delhi University, and her MBA from the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIMB), where she was given the 2020 Distinguished Alumnus Award.
She received her PhD in Marketing from the University of Virginia. She has been on the Tuck faculty since 1993 and is the current Chair of the Marketing Area.
Nicole Dotts-Wright T'11
Director of Marketing, Food and Beverage, Ecolab
Nicole Dotts-Wright T'11 is currently the Director of Marketing for Ecolab’s North America Food and Beverage Flow Business where she is responsible for establishing the strategic vision and innovation roadmap for the Fluid Dairy, Cheese, Bev, and Brew Segments. Prior to this role, Nicole worked in Ecolab’s Institutional Business where she led the Manual Warewash and Kitchen Hygiene Team within Food Service. Prior to Ecolab, and after Tuck, Nicole worked for General Mills where she helped establish and grow the Larabar, Cascadian Farm, and Honey Nut Cheerios brands among others. Before heading to Tuck, Nicole worked for BP in their downstream retail business supporting both Environmental Management and Global Marketing initiatives. She currently lives in Minneapolis, MN with her husband Simon (TP’11) whom she met working in Japan after graduating from UCLA. She keeps busy with her 3 boys Austin (6), Cameron (4), and Evan (1). They love to travel as a family to Southern California (Nicole’s hometown), Leicester England (Simon’s hometown), and anywhere warm in the winter! Otherwise, you will find them outdoors biking, skiing, and swimming.
Morgan Flatley D’96
SVP & Chief Marketing and Digital Customer Experience Officer, McDonald’s U.S.
Morgan Flatley is the SVP & Chief Marketing and Digital Customer Experience Officer at McDonald’s USA where she plays an integral role in advancing the company’s growth strategies through marketing plans and insight-driven innovations. Since joining McDonald’s in May 2017, Morgan successfully launched fresh beef quarter pound burgers, put an intense focus on creative excellence and built the capabilities and process to put data and insights at the heart of all the marketing programs. Her intense curiosity for consumer behavior and trends both within and outside the industry enable her to devise creative campaigns and fuel innovations to reach consumers in unique ways.
Prior to this role, Morgan served as SVP, Chief Marketing Officer of PepsiCo’s Global Nutrition Group, where she was responsible for accelerating growth globally for PepsiCo’s flagship nutrition brands – Quaker, Tropicana and Naked. Before joining the Global Nutrition Group, Morgan was Chief Marketing Officer of PepsiCo’s iconic Gatorade brand and was one of they arhcitects of the successful and sustained turn around of the Gatorade business.
She has been recognized as one of Ad Week’s “30 Most Powerful Women in Sport,”named Chicago Advertising Federation’s “2016 Advertising Woman of the Year,” and was awarded Adweek’s 2015 Grand Brand Genius the publication’s most prestigious award.
Morgan is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Business School. She is a 2017 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
Morgan currently resides in Chicago with her husband and three children.
Kate Jhaveri T'03
Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer National Basketball Association
Kate Jhaveri was appointed Chief Marketing Officer of the NBA in August 2019. In her role, Jhaveri is responsible for leading the global marketing operations for the NBA, NBA G League and NBA 2K League, including the development of innovative marketing campaigns and brand messaging across all platforms to connect with fans and grow the game of basketball around the world. Additionally, she oversees the consumer insights and analytics departments to enhance the NBA’s consumer data strategy and implement new marketing programs.
Previously, Jhaveri served as CMO of Twitch, where she established the platform as the leader in live interactive content. Leading Twitch’s brand strategy, Jhaveri oversaw a global team of 90 employees and was responsible for growing, engaging and retaining the brand’s core audiences of more than 15 million daily active viewers and more than three million unique content creators each month.
Prior to Twitch, Jhaveri was Head of Consumer Marketing at Twitter, where she managed all consumer-facing campaigns that drove increased user growth, engagement and brand relevance with consumers worldwide. Jhaveri also previously served as Head of Brand Marketing at Facebook and spent seven years at Microsoft overseeing the worldwide Marketing Communications team for Windows, Internet Explorer and bing.com. Earlier in her career, she was Manager of Corporate Strategy at Dell. Jhaveri serves as secretary of the national board for Planned Parenthood Action Fund. She received her MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business in 2003 and graduated with a bachelor’s degree from College of the Holy Cross in 1995. Originally from Baltimore, Jhaveri is married and has two children
Kevin Lane Keller
E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing and Senior Associate Dean for Marketing and Communications, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
Kevin Lane Keller is the E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing and Senior Associate Dean for Marketing and Communications at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Keller's academic resume includes degrees from Cornell, Duke, and Carnegie-Mellon universities; faculty positions at Berkeley, Stanford, and UNC; and award-winning research with over 120 published papers and two marketing-leading textbooks. Through the years, he has served as brand confidant to marketers for some of the world's most successful global brands, including Accenture, American Express, Disney, Ford, Intel, Levi-Strauss, Nike, Procter & Gamble, Samsung, and Starbucks.
Amy Calhoun Robb T'04
VP of Marketing, hello products
Amy Calhoun Robb (T’04) is the friendly VP of Marketing at hello products, a naturally friendly personal care company. Hello is one of the fastest growing brands in the oral care category, and was recently acquired by Colgate Palmolive.
Prior to her current role leading marketing and innovation at hello, Amy was CMO at The Princeton Review. Previously she held global and local marketing and innovation roles at Diageo, Starbucks, and Tommy Hilfiger.
Amy received her BS from Georgetown University and her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and three children.
Leela Srinivasan T'06
Chief Marketing Officer, SurveyMonkey
Leela joined SurveyMonkey in April 2018 and leads all marketing functions including brand strategy, growth marketing, product marketing, and communications. Previously, she served as Chief Marketing Officer at Lever where she was responsible for all aspects of marketing and partnered with the People team on employer branding initiatives. Prior to that, Leela served as VP of marketing at OpenTable, where she built product marketing from scratch and established the foundations of a B2B marketing team. Additionally, Leela was director of marketing at LinkedIn within the Talent Solutions business, where she co-founded the Talent Connect conference. She also spent three years in management consulting at Bain & Company, and five years in sales. Leela also serves on the board of UpWork, a global freelancing website. She earned her MBA in general management from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and her MA in history and English literature from the University of Edinburgh in her native Scotland
Ruslan Tovbulatov D'09
Chief Marketing Officer, Thrive Global
Ruslan is a founding member and the current Chief Marketing Officer at Thrive Global, a health & well-being technology company launched by Arianna Huffington in 2016. In his role, Ruslan oversees growth and demand gen, go-to-market strategy, product marketing and sales enablement, content strategy, and insights for all of Thrive’s product offerings while managing key partner relationships and product integrations. Ruslan joined Thrive following a storied career at Google, during which he led video product commercialization for YouTube, launched Google's SMB media agency team, and co-founded the Google BrandLab, a state-of-the-art experience center and brand consultancy. In a span of 5 years, he scaled the BrandLab experience to 6 centers across 4 continents, supporting over 225 global brands with their digital marketing strategies. Prior to Google, Ruslan oversaw consumer research at Kantar Retail for many of the world’s largest CPG manufacturers and retailers. He is also a 30 under 30-recognized creative, a native Russian speaker, and most importantly of all, he has the still North in his soul and the hill winds in his breath as a proud Dartmouth '09!
2020 Tuck Marketing Symposium Co-Chairs
Arleen is currently a second-year MBA student and one of Tuck’s Marketing Club’s co-chairs. She started her career as a media planner at MullenLowe Mediahub and then was an industry researcher at Forrester focused on helping B2C marketers better leverage technology for their marketing strategies. This past summer, she was a product strategy and consumer insights intern at Allbirds. She has an A.B. in Psychology from Harvard College.
Omika Jikaria is a second-year MBA student at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and one of the co-chairs of the Tuck Marketing Club. Prior to business school, Omika worked in business operations at Facebook, microfinance at Kiva in Cambodia, and international development at IDinsight in India. This past summer, Omika interned in strategy at ZX Ventures, the innovation and venture capital arm of Anheuser-Busch InBev. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Michael is a second-year MBA student at Tuck and a co-chair of the Tuck Marketing Club. Prior to Tuck, he worked in football research for the Carolina Panthers and as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. This summer, he interned at Colgate Palmolive in their Global Marketing Development Program. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Quantitative Economics and Psychology from Tufts University.
Kailash is currently a second-year MBA student and one of the co-chairs of Tuck’s Marketing Club. Prior to business school, Kailash worked in different marketing roles across the financial services, technology and retail sectors. He spent the summer at Ecolab as part of their Marketing Leadership Program. He did his undergraduate degree in Commerce from India and has a Master’s in Marketing from Durham University in the United Kingdom.
Shayda is a second-year MBA student at Tuck and a co-chair of the Tuck Marketing Club. Prior to Tuck, Shayda worked in the public relations and integrated communications industry at various agencies across the pharmaceutical, consumer health and consumer sectors. This summer, she spent her summer interning at Estée Lauder within the Presidential Management Associate MBA Program. Shayda completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.