Edit Person Karin Timpone | Executive Education

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Karin Timpone was Global Marketing Officer at Marriott International until the end of 2019. In this role she led the integrated global marketing and consumer relationship management strategy for the company, evolving the strategy to strengthen the relevance of Marriott’s portfolio of brands to the next-generation traveler. Under Karin’s leadership, the global marketing team integrated new brands into the portfolio, grew its loyalty member base, innovated new digital marketing platforms and pioneered an industry-first content studio.&nbsp;Business Insider&nbsp;named her one of the world’s top fifty CMOs — and specifically one of the Storytellers: marketing executives who have mastered the art of storytelling across platforms.

Karin joined Marriott from the Walt Disney Company, where she was Senior Vice President for Product Strategy and Marketing for Disney/ABC Digital Media. While there, she set up Disney’s first-ever digital media product strategy and marketing team and led consumer strategy for such brands as ABC.com, ABCNews.com, ABCFamily.com, the Disney Channel and Oscar.com and the introduction of award-winning mobile products. Prior to the Walt Disney Company, Karin was head of Marketing and Consumer/Customer Innovation for Yahoo! Media Group. Previously she served as a senior marketing executive at the Seagram Company, where she helped lead strategy for a broad portfolio of brands, including Absolut Vodka. On leaving Marriott she returned to Los Angeles to work on a startup that is currently in stealth mode.

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