Mixing Board Studio Session — Abenaa Hayes is the founder and CEO of Elysee Consulting and a seasoned communications and brand marketing executive with expertise in healthcare, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and health equity. Building on a family legacy in health equity and racial justice (her parents were health equity pioneers in Trinidad), Abenaa is…

Mixing Board Studio Session — Ashley is a senior marketing executive with over 15 years of leading brand and product GTM strategies for Medium, Airbnb, Foursquare, MTV, Upworthy, Daily Harvest, and more. She’s a creative, scrappy, and hands-on leader with expertise in brand strategy, leading visual content creation, acquiring and retaining customers, and establishing growth…

Mixing Board Studio Session — Mixing Board member Sarah Kay founded Create A Bold Future LLC, a global brand and innovation advisory because she believes that brands exist to benefit humanity, not the other way around. Through her LLC, she advises CEOs and chief brand officers. Sarah also wrote the book Brand New World to…

Mixing Board Studio Session — Mixing Board member Nilesh Ashra is an independent consultant and creative director who helps brands take a creative approach to emerging technologies. Before going out on his own, Nilesh was a Director of Creative Technology at Wieden+Kennedy, where he founded the Lodge at W+K. In this Studio Session, Nilesh and…

Mixing Board Studio Session — Mixing Board Member Sara Blask is currently a Senior Manager, Public Relations at Blue Origin where she leads launch communications for the New Shepard and New Glenn rockets, and serves as the day-to-day media lead. Before that, she was the VP of Media Strategy at Outcast and Director of Communications…

Mixing Board Studio Session — Mixing Board Member Eva Rijser recently left her role as VP of Global Brand at Flexport, where she built the comms function from the ground up and oversaw creative, content, PR, and more. Before Flexport she spent over a decade at Edelman as EVP & Group Director of Corporate Affairs…

Mixing Board Studio Session — Mixing Board Member Maryam Banikarim recently left her role as Head of Marketing for Nextdoor to focus on revitalizing the neighborhoods of New York City through work with the Partnership for NYC. Before Nextdoor, Maryam served in CMO or SVP roles at Hyatt, Gannett, NBC Universal and Univision. Before that…

Mixing Board Studio Session — Mixing Board Member Jessica Kleiman was most recently the Senior Vice President of Global Communications at Peloton, where she oversaw the brand’s public relations, corporate communications, internal communications and social media initiatives. Before Peloton, she led consumer communications at Instagram and spen over a decade at Hearst Magazines, where she…

Mixing Board Studio Session — Mixing Board Member Anna Ondaatje most recently was the Global Brand & Franchise VP of Strategy at Playboy where she helped lead a massive transformation of the brand over a three-year period that also saw the company go public. Before Playboy, she was at Pramana Collective where she worked with…