Eastwick Launches CMO-in-Residence Program; Provides Clients With Access to Top Tech CMOs

SUNNYVALE, CA and NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - May 6, 2015) - Eastwick, a leading tech-focused communications agency, today announced the launch of its CMO-in-Residence (CIR) program, a top tech CMO rotation program that provides clients with access to c-level strategic marketing counsel. The launch of the CIR program follows Eastwick's new branding and marketing initiatives reflecting the company's fully integrated service offerings. Along with the program launch, Eastwick announced CMO Chris Hummel joined as the company's first CIR.

CIR brings experienced tech CMOs on a short term, rotating basis to partner with Eastwick and provide their expertise to high-growth tech clients who have a gap in c-level marketing experience within their team. CIR is a foundational pillar to Eastwick's #CMO2020 campaign, a commitment to bringing the latest CMO insights to clients and employees through industry events, research and educational series. As part of this campaign, the CIR program supports Eastwick's goal of partnering with today's modern CMO and c-level executives to understand and leverage strategies that are fundamentally changing marketing and customer engagement.

"The research is clear that CMOs are now expected to drive strategy for their organizations, own customer relationships from lead to loyalty and become experts in technologies and tools that can accelerate their brand and customer engagement," said Heather Kernahan, general manager and executive vice president of Eastwick. "We want to be a catalyst to bring together talented CMOs to the tech clients we work with and our own team so that we all continuously learn, get better results and push to a higher business level. Our CIR program will do exactly that."

As the first Eastwick CIR, Hummel brings more than 20 years of experience and impactful contributions to Fortune 300 multi-national corporations, including Oracle, SAP, Unify and Schneider Electric. He is a globally-networked tech marketing executive with hands-on experience building organizations and business value in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, LATAM, and the Eastern Europe. A true global citizen, Hummel has lived, worked, and successfully led organizations around the globe, including the US, UK, Germany, Russia, China, Singapore and several other countries.

As Eastwick's CIR, Hummel will advise tech clients on strategic marketing, planning and critical issues facing high growth companies, including brand messaging, digital marketing strategy, customer acquisition and experience design, brand publishing initiatives, marketing technology investments and more.

The genesis of this program stemmed from a need among tech startups for c-level strategic marketing talent and Eastwick's dedication to gathering and better understanding the CMO's role, in order to hone capabilities and deliver stronger results for clients. Hummel will also work with Eastwick talent across all levels to discuss the role of a CMO and how communications professionals can better understand their challenges and become stronger partners. 

"Eastwick is unique in the tech ecosystem in that it delivers big agency expertise with an elite agency attitude and service. This is the model advanced CMOs are moving towards as they elevate strategy and remain quick to deliver results," said Hummel. "As the first CMO-in-residence at Eastwick, my goals are to bring additional strategic marketing insight to tech companies who are struggling with raised expectations of their marketing leaders so that they can align plans to business goals and move faster than they thought possible."

"Chris's strategy expertise, customer-first passion and intense execution experience will be incredibly valuable for Eastwick and our clients and makes him the ideal first CMO-in-Residence," Kernahan added.

Interested in our CMO-in-Residence program? Contact heather@eastwick.com.

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