Lauren Weinberg
Lauren
Weinberg
Month: August 2024
Egbavwe leads media strategy and strategic innovation for some of CMI Media Group’s largest clients. He has over 20 years of media experience across multiple industries including retail, higher education, and pharma. He has focused on media transformation through innovative thinking and a data driven approach for scaling and optimizing media plans. This has included working across many HCP and patient/consumer audiences including oncology, HIV, respiratory, immunology, and vaccines. Egbavwe also leads the CMI Media Group Inclusive Media Center of Excellence, which helps the company’s clients to ensure they are reaching all audiences where and how they want to be reached.
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Derrick Johnson
Derrick
Johnson
Month: August 2024
Egbavwe leads media strategy and strategic innovation for some of CMI Media Group’s largest clients. He has over 20 years of media experience across multiple industries including retail, higher education, and pharma. He has focused on media transformation through innovative thinking and a data driven approach for scaling and optimizing media plans. This has included working across many HCP and patient/consumer audiences including oncology, HIV, respiratory, immunology, and vaccines. Egbavwe also leads the CMI Media Group Inclusive Media Center of Excellence, which helps the company’s clients to ensure they are reaching all audiences where and how they want to be reached.
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Coodie & Chike
Coodie &
Chike
Month: August 2024
Egbavwe leads media strategy and strategic innovation for some of CMI Media Group’s largest clients. He has over 20 years of media experience across multiple industries including retail, higher education, and pharma. He has focused on media transformation through innovative thinking and a data driven approach for scaling and optimizing media plans. This has included working across many HCP and patient/consumer audiences including oncology, HIV, respiratory, immunology, and vaccines. Egbavwe also leads the CMI Media Group Inclusive Media Center of Excellence, which helps the company’s clients to ensure they are reaching all audiences where and how they want to be reached.
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She's Got Next
Month: August 2024
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Date
Thu, Oct 17
Time
10:05AM – 10:50AM
Stage
Impact stage
Address
Spring Studios
6 St Johns Ln,
New York, NY 10013
Speakers & Moderators
Swin Cash
Hall of Fame Athlete, Olympic Gold Medalist & WNBA Champion
MJ Acosta Ruiz
Journalist, ESPN
Swin Cash
Hall of Fame Athlete, Olympic Gold Medalist & WNBA Champion
This panel, moderated by WNBA Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist Swin Cash, will address the growing popularity of women’s sports. Despite this rise in popularity, biases continue to impact women athletes of color, hindering their ability to reach their full potential. We will discuss how to ensure that athletes of color receive their fair share of credibility and opportunity, acknowledging their significant contributions to the women’s sports industry.
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Date
Thu, Oct 17
Time
10:05AM – 10:50AM
Stage
Impact stage
Address
Spring Studios
6 St Johns Ln,
New York, NY 10013
The Future of Diverse Owned Media
Month: August 2024
Details
Date
Tues, Oct 17
Time
9:15AM – 10:00AM
Stage
Impact stage
Address
Spring Studios
6 St Johns Ln,
New York, NY 10013
Speakers & Moderators
Kirk McDonald
CMO, Rocket Companies
Nate Parker
Co-Founder, Mansa
Lynwood Bibbens
CEO, ReachTV
Damon Jones
This discussion explores the pivotal role Black leaders play in shaping the future of agency holding companies and influencing long-term corporate strategies. Black representation in the boardroom is not just about diversity—it’s a critical driver of corporate performance, governance, and sustainability. We are proud to convene a distinguished panel of Black board directors who are at the forefront of transforming corporate leadership and fostering inclusive, innovative business practices.
This Blackweek discussion is proudly sponsored by P&G. We’re grateful for their generous support and commitment to right-sizing industries to help create more opportunity for equity and ownership.
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Date
Tues, Oct 17
Time
9:15AM – 10:00AM
Stage
Impact stage
Address
Spring Studios
6 St Johns Ln,
New York, NY 10013
The Power of Cultural Reinvention-How Diverse Creators are Taking Over Talk
Month: August 2024
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Date
Wed, Oct 16
Time
9:50AM – 10:35AM
Stage
Impact stage
Address
Spring Studios
6 St Johns Ln,
New York, NY 10013
Speakers & Moderators
Shannon Sharpe
3X Super Bowl Champion & Pro Football Hall of Famer
Joy Allen-Altimare
CMO, Saucony
Aaron Walton
CEO, Walton Isaacson
Shannon Sharpe has gone from Hall of Fame Football star to Hall of Fame Youtuber. His recent interview with Katt Williams shut down the internet. In this fireside chat moderated by Joy Allen-Altimare, CMO Saucony, we will examine the growing trend of Black hosted talk shows, podcasters and pundits. We will examine why this is becoming so lucrative and why its so popular amongst diverse influencers, celebrities and athletes.
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Date
Wed, Oct 16
Time
9:50AM – 10:35AM
Stage
Impact stage
Address
Spring Studios
6 St Johns Ln,
New York, NY 10013
Egbavwe Pela
Egbavwe
Pela
Month: August 2024
Egbavwe leads media strategy and strategic innovation for some of CMI Media Group’s largest clients. He has over 20 years of media experience across multiple industries including retail, higher education, and pharma. He has focused on media transformation through innovative thinking and a data driven approach for scaling and optimizing media plans. This has included working across many HCP and patient/consumer audiences including oncology, HIV, respiratory, immunology, and vaccines. Egbavwe also leads the CMI Media Group Inclusive Media Center of Excellence, which helps the company’s clients to ensure they are reaching all audiences where and how they want to be reached.
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Nneka Onuorah
Nneka
Onuorah
Month: August 2024
Nneka Onuorah is a trailblazing, Emmy Award-winning Nigerian-American filmmaker, producer, and activist committed to telling narratively- and formally-daring stories that re-examine and lift up underrepresented communities.
In September 2022, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for ‘Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program’ for Amazon’s LIZZO’S WATCH OUT FOR THE BIG GRRRLS. The series—which also won the Emmy for ‘Outstanding Competition Program’—follows superstar Lizzo on the hunt for confident, badass women to join her world tour. This marked Nneka’s first nomination and win, and a historic moment for queer women of color directors at the Emmys.
She will next direct a docuseries, currently in production, with Megan Thee Stallion which will chronicle the Grammy-winning rapper’s meteoric rise in the music industry and beyond, produced in collaboration with Time Studios & Jay-Z’s Roc Nation.
Nneka’s recent directorial work has twice been nominated for ‘Outstanding Documentary’ at the GLAAD Media Awards: in 2017, for THE SAME DIFFERENCE, about internalized homophobia within the black lesbian community; and in 2022, for The Legend of the Underground, which premiered at Tribeca before debuting on HBO in June 2021, produced by John Legend and focused on Nigerian youth challenging their country’s discriminatory anti-LGBTQ laws. Her other credits include Netflix’s prison-themed First and Last; Viceland’s black queer-focused My House; Burn Down The House, which premiered at NewFest; and The G Word, produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions.
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Jerri DeVard
Jerri
DeVard
Month: August 2024
Jerri is the Founder & CEO of the Black Executive CMO Alliance, BECA and a member of the prestigious Advertising Hall of Fame.
She is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer of Office Depot, Inc., responsible for the P&L for e-commerce, customer service, all marketing functions, data & analytics, communications, community investment and events, having previously served as its Chief Marketing Officer.
Jerri has 40 years of extensive marketing and leadership experience at large global brands. Prior to Office Depot, she served as Chief Marketing Officer of The ADT Corporation, a leading provider of home and business security services. Prior to that, Jerri served as Executive Vice President, CMO for Nokia based in Helsinki and London. Additionally, she held senior marketing roles as SVP at Verizon Communications, CMO at Citibank, VP at Revlon, VP at Harrah’s Entertainment, at the NFL and at General Mills, formerly the Pillsbury Company. Jerri is an Economics graduate of Spelman College, and has served as a member of the Board of Trustees and received her MBA from Clark Atlanta University Graduate School of Business.
She currently serves as a director on the boards of Dow, one of the world’s largest materials science companies; Under Armour Inc., a global athletic performance and innovation brand; cars.com, a leading digital marketplace that connects car shoppers with sellers; and Root Insurance, a disruptive digital company utilizing AI to provide auto insurance.