Packaged goods companies are well known for their marketing discipline and not the place you'd expect to hear a CMO express the need for "tolerating a lot more chaos and ambiguity in the culture and the way we work in order to get to the good stuff." But that's just the starting point with Eric Reynolds, CMO of The Clorox Company, who among other things advises against using influencers on a broad scale and believes that unless your brand gets talked about via the "holy trinity of the brand story, the message, and the content" then the idea isn't big enough to cut through.

Eric Reynolds was named CMO in January 2015 and according to Clorox, "As CMO, he has global responsibility for all marketing functions, including brand strategy and management, personnel staffing and development, consumer insights, advanced analytics, agency management, consumer promotion, digital capabilities, media planning and buying, commercial production, and graphic design." In short, he's the real deal.

Reynolds overseas marketing for a wide range of brands including Brita, Burt's Bees, Formula 409, Glad, Hidden Valley, Kitchen Bouquet, KC Masterpiece, Soy Vay, Kingsford, Liquid-Plumr, Mistolin, Pine-Sol, Tilex, S.O.S., and Fresh Step, Scoop Away and Ever Clean cat litters.