About

Francesco Federico

Global CMO at S&P Global. Author of The Agentic CMO. A practitioner who builds marketing organisations capable of orchestrating human and artificial intelligence at enterprise scale.

20+
Years in Marketing Leadership
30+
Countries
102+
Newsletter Issues
4
Executive Programmes

Background

The operating system of growth

Career arc

Each role added a layer. Each organisation posed a different question. The answer — always — was the same: marketing is not a department. It is an operating system.

S&P Global — Global CMO

Orchestrating marketing transformation across one of the world's foremost financial intelligence organisations. Building hybrid intelligence systems that combine human strategists with agentic AI at enterprise scale.

JLL — Regional Marketing Leadership

Commercial real estate demanded patience, precision, and the ability to translate complex services into clear market positioning across multiple geographies.

Acer — Marketing Director

Technology marketing at speed. Consumer electronics taught the discipline of launch cadence, competitive positioning, and brand building under relentless pressure.

Vodafone — Marketing Manager

Telecommunications is where I learned that scale is not a strategy — it is a consequence of strategy. Speed of execution separates the relevant from the forgotten.

Education & credentials

Theory sharpens instinct. The best practitioners never stop being students — they simply become more selective about their teachers.

  • 1

    Juris Doctor (JD)

    Legal training teaches argument construction, evidence evaluation, and the discipline of precision. Every word matters. Every claim requires support.

  • 2

    FCIM — Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing

    The highest professional distinction in marketing. Recognition that practice and theory are not competing traditions — they are complementary disciplines.

  • 3

    Executive Education

    Harvard Business School, IMD Business School, IE Business School, INSEAD. Four programmes, four perspectives, one consistent lesson: the best frameworks are invisible in execution.

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