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Jun 2023
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How To Be a Modern-Day CMO

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Being a modern-day CMO has its challenges. On this episode of Marketing Trends, Denise Persson, CMO of Snowflake, and Stephanie Dobbs Brown, CMO of ICE, discuss how they approach the job, what they do differently, and how they build and maintain a culture of innovation. 
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