When it comes to Gen-Z marketing Slavka Jancikova, VP Marketing EMEA at Foot Locker, believes that ‘you should definitely avoid being inauthentic’. But how can you be genuine as a brand? Slavka joined Foot Locker in the summer of 2023 and it is her job to make the American sports shoe store chain appealing to Gen-Z. Before joining Foot Locker, Slavka had been building world class brands at Unilever, Nike and Adidas.

In this episode Klaas Weima is going to talk with Slavka Jancikova, VP Marketing EMEA at Foot Locker about Gen-Z marketing.

Soccer, or football, as the rest of the world would like to call it, is gaining popularity in the United States. How does the American national federation capitalize on the growing interest in the world’s most popular sport? And: why is the U.S. putting all this effort in hosting major events such as the FIFA’s World Cup and FIFA’s Club World Cup in the upcoming years?

In this episode of CMOtalk we have a chat with Marloes Laan, the Chief Marketing Officer at Versuni about the rebranding of the company formerly known as Philips Domestic Appliances.

In this episode of CMOtalk Global we speak with Kim Larsen, Head of Global Communications & Brand Experience at ING about the digital transformation of the banking industry.

Kiran Haslam, Chief Marketing Officer of Diriyah, a prestigious project in the middle of the Saudi desert. This multi billion giga project is the birthplace of Saudi Arabia and aims to attract 100 million tourists by 2030. How can Kiran and his team of 150 marketers live up to these giant ambitions? Which role does marketing play in convincing all stakeholders to embark on this visionary journey? And which perceptions need to be altered?

We're honoured to have Wouter Blok as our guest. Wouter is VP Growth Marketing at GetYourGuide, the European platform to book guided tours. He originally trained to become a pilot, no less with KLM. Flying wasn't as exciting as marketing though, so he joined several startups. Wouter later went on to Google, Coolblue, and Sprint. Now, he's conquering the world with GetYourGuide, which was founded in 2009 and has sold over 120 million tickets. How have they managed that?

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In this episode of CMOtalk Klaas talks to Patrick Stal, Chief Marketing Officer at Zepz. Patrick is a seasoned marketing executive with over 20 years of experience in the advertising and tech industry. Prior to joining Zepz, Patrick was leading N26, as VP of global marketing and at Uber he was heading up the EMEA leadership team. We will talk about the transformation of marketing into a force for good and the impact of ESGs.