Wendy Walker
Wendy Walker brings more than 20 years of marketing experience spanning a variety of industries and covering all disciplines. In her role at Salesforce, Wendy leads marketing across the region; helping businesses grow and connect with their customers, partners, and employees. As a passionate advocate for Equality, she is also President of the Salesforce Asia Women’s Network; with a charter to empower, invest, and amplify the progress of women, creating gender-equality allies and taking action on equality. Prior to joining, Wendy led Intuit’s Global Expansion portfolio of 185 markets; accountable for leading the growth, brand, and marketing efforts for expansion into new global markets across multiple regions. Wendy also previously held global and regional positions as Global Director Brand & Content for iflix, chief marketing officer of Manulife, and Mindshare’s chief growth officer for Asia-Pacific. Passionate about creativity and effectiveness, she has devoted much of her career to building, growing, refreshing, and transforming brands – from household names to startups; and is known for her ability to drive creative effectiveness combined with operational excellence and strong commercial results. Wendy regularly participates as a jury member across many industry award programs, and also frequently contributes as chair or speaker at major advertising industry events. She has been regularly recognised with global awards; named as Global CMO of the Year 2020 at the Global CMO Summit and Awards 2020, named as Most Influential Global Brand Leader in 2016, 2017, and 2019, and as one of the Top 100 Most Talented Global Marketing Leaders by the World Marketing Congress in both 2014 and 2015. She has held several Board positions over the years and is currently a Non-Executive Director for both The Marketing Society and also Kaplan Higher Education Industry Advisory Board for Marketing, Media, Communications, and Public Relations. Wendy is based in Singapore.
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